Week in Review: US Resets Diplomacy in Middle East
Al-Monitor’s coverage and analysis of a newly assertive US diplomacy toward the peace process, Iran and Syria.
Obama’s visit to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
So much for the United States "leading from behind" in the Middle East.
Secretary of State John Kerry had already made clear that he, unlike his predecessor, would give Middle East diplomacy his personal priority and announced a trip to the region as early as this month.
That seemed news enough, but then Al-Monitor’s Laura Rozen was one of the first to report this week that President Barack Obama himself would travel to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, probably in late March.
