Sigurd Neubauer
By Sigurd Neubauer
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Opinion What Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Means For Israel
In early September, I texted my friend Jamal Khashoggi to inquire whether he would be able to meet for coffee “sometime within the next week or so.” It had been a few months since our last meeting, when we met for breakfast at Le Pen Quotidien in Tysons Corner. We had chatted about the “Dreamer”…
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Opinion The Arab Summit’s Shocking Reveal: Arab Leaders Support Trump’s Peace Plan
Much of the press coverage of this weekend’s Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia centered on the unanimous condemnation by Arab leaders of President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But overlooked by many is the fact that Arab leaders also quietly support his peace plan for the region, even though Palestinian leadership…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Friendship With A Saudi Prince Is Endangering Israel
True to his nature, President Donald Trump once again threw out the rulebook of international diplomacy when he hosted Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince and de-facto ruler, Muhammad bin Salman, also known as MbS, at the White House on Tuesday. It was then that Trump announced that Washington would sell some $200 billion in arms,…
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Opinion Trump Fired Tillerson To Protect Jared Kushner
President Trump yesterday dismissed his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson — via tweet. While Tillerson was never a “Trumpian” in the manner of Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, Republican foreign policy stalwarts Robert Gates and Condoleezza Rice recommended him for his stellar career as a business executive with long-standing ties to President Vladimir Putin of…
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Opinion How The Battle Over Al Jazeera Coopted America’s Jews
Some surprising news emerged on the heels of the annual shebang of America’s largest Israel lobbying group. On the final day of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy conference, news broke that an undercover Al Jazeera documentary — about the very topic of Jewish advocacy for Israel — might lead to espionage charges against…
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