"I think with Iran, the game is still on,” Assaf Orion, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told JNS. “It’s not ‘Mission Accomplished.’ We can’t go and have beers because this problem is solved.” As U.S. and Israeli leaders continue to hold meetings in Washington on Tuesday, experts told JNS that the discussions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be “transformational” for the entire Middle East.
Jonathan Schanzer, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS that what the two leaders have described of their plans could reset the region. “An end to Iranian aggression, peace between Israel and Syria, plus an end to the Gaza war with resettlement opportunities for Gazans and regional leadership in the Strip? One of these would be a remarkable achievement,” Schanzer said. “All of them would amount to a new Middle East.”
“What the two leaders laid out las t night was nothing short of transformational,” he added.‘Things may be moving in the right direction.’ At their White House dinner on Monday, Trump and Netanyahu said that they were working on a plan to relocate Gazans either within the coastal enclave in what Trump called a “freedom zone,” or to third countries. (Read More)
