Ms. Micky Aharonson, senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, and a former senior director on Israel’s National security council, discusses why she is upbeat about US-Israel relations under a Biden Administration;  Russian President Vladimir Putin’s role in the region; why Israel would prefer an Arab strategy to try to break Assad’s ties to Iran ; and the prospects for further normalization and an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference, as well as my comments on the catastrophic food crises in Syria and Yemen.

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• Russia's outreach to Syrian Kurds highlights dual-track approach - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East (al-monitor.com)