Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Mark Levin that the Blue and White Party won't actually back President Donald Trump's peace proposal between Israel and the Palestinians because Blue and White it needs Arab partners to gain a parliamentary majority.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf after Britain seized an Iranian vessel this month, ratcheting up tension along a vital international oil shipping route.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is to formally unveil the first part of his Middle East peace plan during a Bahrain conference next week, outlining a path for development of the fragile economies of the Palestinian territories and three neighboring Arab countries.
Peter Beinart's argument is simply absurd, full of omissions and distortions that obfuscate simple truths: the regime in Iran is evil and poses, by far, the greatest threat to American interests in the Middle East.
There are at least two problems with the military shifting its focus toward great-power war against Eurasia's two giants at the expense of its capabilities to conduct irregular warfare in the Middle East. First, it seems that, realistically, the next war in which the U.S. is engaged is much more likely to be irregular and involve terrorists and insurgents in Africa or the Middle East, rather than, say, a war with China over Taiwan. Second, regardless of what objective analysis shows to be the most sound, effective defense strategy for the U.S., the political reality in Washington is that the Middle East always seems to dominate the headlines, and lawmakers can never seem to make the strategic shift away from the region.
This notion—of Iran and Saudi Arabia getting over their differences and "sharing" the Middle East—endured past Barack Obama's presidency and is now an established part of left-wing foreign policy.
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Mark Levin that the Blue and White Party won't actually back President Donald Trump's peace proposal between Israel and the Palestinians because Blue and White it needs Arab partners to gain a parliamentary majority. 
