The State Department was giving the cold shoulder to Syrian Kurds long before President Trump's abandonment. 
It is only recently that David Ben-Gurion ceased to be, for the sake of the official record books, Israel's longest-serving prime minister. That honor now belongs to Benjamin Netanyahu, even as his political future becomes ever... 
Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria is one of the most shortsighted foreign policy miscalculations in recent memory. The president's actions leaves the West's Kurdish allies at the mercy of Turkey. And Trump's... 
The White House has ended one of the most successful US military partnerships ever. From Jonathan Spyer 
Never before in history has the US worked with a group and then opened the skies to have another US ally bomb and destroy it. On October 9, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of mostly Kurdish fighters who fought ISIS... 
Explaining away some Muslims' beliefs on jihad, oppression of women, and more only makes them more difficult to combat. 
Washington has chosen such a narrow goal that its allies wonder if there is a future for the U.S. in the Middle East. 
Seth Frantzman: "An erratic Washington, even one that appears more pro-Israel than previous administration, leaves more questions than answers. Israel's enemies exploit that kind of uncertainty."
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