Feb

10 2021

JCPA: The Biden Administration and the Middle East (Part 2)

1:00PM - 2:00PM  

Virtual

How will the new Administration approach peace-making between Israel, Arab countries and the Palestinians?

Israel has normalized relations with four Arab nations in the past five months in what’s referred to as the outside-in approach to peacemaking. Will the Biden Administration continue to build on the success of the Abraham Accords or focus on the Palestinian track? How will US policy on Iran likely affect these decisions.

Bret Stephens is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American conservative journalist, editor, and columnist. He began working as an opinion columnist for The New York Times in April 2017 and as a senior contributor to NBC News in June 2017. Stephens previously worked for The Wall Street Journal as a foreign-affairs columnist and later as the deputy editorial page editor, and was responsible for the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions. From 2002 to 2004, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2013.