This discussion, joined by Al-Shabaka policy fellow Tareq Baconi and policy analysts Mouin Rabbani and Rashid Khalidi examine the impact of shifting alliances and regional instability in the Middle East on the next US administration’s approach to the Palestine-Israel conflict. Weeks from the US presidential elections, this timely discussion explores the Gulf’s unspoken alliance with Israel against Iran, the Syrian crisis, and ISIS, and the changing dynamics in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, as well as the importance of natural gas finds in the eastern Mediterranean.
Featured Speaker
Tareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka. He was Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow from 2016 – 2017. Tareq is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018). Tareq’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, among others, and he is a frequent commentator in regional and international media. He is the book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.
