[T]he right does not offer a better world — that would be difficult. Rather, it pursues and consolidates a worse one.
The new model is not based on a [U.S.] military withdrawal from the region.
The [U.S.] has been displeased with the Lebanese government’s attempts to disarm Hezbollah.
The most active figures among the neoconservatives were a group of strategists associated with the Jewish right.
Information coming out of Iran suggests things have never been this bad.
A person can also simply cooperate with antisemites and antisemitic discourse, legitimizing them and giving them the power to grow.
The plan ignores the root cause of the region’s decades-old conflict, which is the unresolved Palestinian question.
While Hamas has said that its weapons would be handed over to the Board of Peace, many hurdles remain.
The Iranian axis, so to speak, is working to curb American influence — not to prove that the Shia are right or the Sunnis are wrong.
The United States did not simply stumble into a trap in the Middle East; it deliberately walked into one.
[These changes] reflect a deeper transformation in the concept of American national interest after two decades of wars in the region.