This week on the podcast, US Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., makes the case for a Joe Biden foreign policy in the Middle East and discusses the Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Israeli normalization deals with Bahrain and the UAE. He also explains how, in his view, Russia and China are gaining at the expense of the US in the region.

• Israel’s Gulf diplomacy and its discontents  
• Sen. Van Hollen speaks on Israeli annexation
• Sen. Van Hollen challenges Trump's bypass of Congress on Saudi Arabia, Iran