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...Among the high-profile defenders of Israel who have spoken out recently is former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said Israel’s government was “courting disaster”....
...“I don’t see how the US has much standing to complain about Iran not abiding by any agreement the US has said is deeply flawed and walked away from,” Mr Alterman said....
...Defence officials are concerned about China’s “desire to erode US military advantages” in the Middle East, Michael Mulroy, the top Pentagon official for the region, told the Financial Times....
...Jon Alterman, Middle East director for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said: “It’s not clear whether [Mr Trump] is softening his line or coming to understand the implications of what...
...Michael McCaul, the Republican ranking member of the House foreign affairs committee, urged the president not to withdraw until “Isis is completely destroyed.”...
...When it’s still in the $70s I think we can make it work,” says Mr Alterman at Credit Suisse....
...According to Michael Elliott, the British-born editor of Time’s international edition who has spent almost 20 years working as a journalist in the US, the decline in US journalism can be summed up thus:...
...Michael Oren, an Israeli historian and senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based Shalem Centre, says the Gaza crisis shows that “if you hand back territory it becomes a launchpad for rockets”....
...“The truth is that the Bush administration is foundering and doesn’t have a policy on Iran, which is why it has given in to European pressure to negotiate,” says Michael Rubin, a senior official in the first...
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