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February 18, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People

The Obama Administration cast its first veto in the United Nations on Friday, February 18, killing a Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlement activity.  Its poor handl…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

July 15, 2014

Israel
On the Death of a Friend in Israel

On the Death of a Friend in Israel My friend Elhanan Harlev died on July 1st after a long illness. We had an odd friendship. He was an Israeli by way of Germany and Argentina. I am a kid from Long I…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 13, 2018

Turkey
Could A Coalition of the “Friends of Turkey” Ride to Turkey’s Financial Rescue?

Turkey is in a bit of financial trouble. It isn’t clear that today's rate hike on its own will be enough. The rate hike will make the lira a bit more attractive to foreign investors (and will raise t…

Could A Coalition of the “Friends of Turkey” Ride to Turkey’s Financial Rescue?
Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

February 23, 2012

Middle East and North Africa
The "Friends of Syria" Tunis Meeting

A new chapter in the struggle for Syria opens on Friday with the meeting of some seventy foreign ministers and senior officials in Tunis. Having dabbled episodically with President Bashar al-Assad’s …

Foreign Ministers Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa of Bahrain, Prince Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey pose for a group photo during the fourth ministerial meeting of Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Istanbul on January 28, 2012 (Murad Sezer/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters