Tag: Middle East

Graphic for A New Policy in the Middle East webinar

Developing a New U.S. Policy in the Middle East

September 23, 2025 Maryellen Kurkulos

Josh Paul is a former State Department official who resigned his position due to his opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically to the U.S. providing lethal arms to Israel in violation of U.S. laws such as the Leahy Law. He founded […]

ICJ: Israel committing genocide is ‘plausible’

June 5, 2024 Susan Nicholson

By Susan Nicholson THE BACKGROUND Since the landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice on January 26, 2024 that at least some of Israel’s actions in Gaza are plausibly described as genocide (South Africa v. Israel), South Africa has returned to the ICJ on […]