Dear MEPIN readers,
Please watch my year-end review of the Middle East, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for the United States and Israel in 2025. Will the Trump administration realize credible military threats and that engagement is the best way to decrease regional wars and advance American interests, or will isolationists like Tucker Carlson rule the day?
I also discuss the latest front-page New York Times investigative analysis with out-of-context criticism of Israeli engagement with Hamas after October 7. Let’s just say the New York Times never mentions the terrorist strategy to inflict as many casualties on their own civilians to manipulate world opinion against Israel or note that Israel has the right and obligation in an existential war to defend itself as would any other nation.