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Fathom Highlight | How Obama and Trump lost the Middle East + the novels of Zeruya Shalev / 18 November / 2019

Our Fathom Highlight this week features two pieces. Kyle Orton argues that the disastrous foreign policy decisions of President Obama and President Trump have prompted the collapse of the US position in the Middle East. Liam Hoare proposes that the translation of Zeruya Shalev’s 2015 novel Pain should be the moment she assumes ‘her rightful place in the English-speaking world’s literary imagination alongside Amos Oz, David Grossman, and Etgar Keret’.

Our Image of the Week is Palestinians clashing with Israeli security forces during a demonstration at the main entrance of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, 14 November.

Our Voice of the Week is David Makovsky in conversation with former Israeli ambassador to the US and Knesset member Michael Oren about the little-known US role in the Balfour Declaration, and why the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine is a prominent part of the American psyche.

Obama, Trump and the collapse of the American position in the Middle East

by Kyle Orton | November 18, 2019

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The disastrous foreign policies of two presidents are bringing about the collapse of America’s position in the Middle East, argues Kyle Orton. October 2019 may well remain in the popular memory as the inflection point marking the collapse of America’s — and by extension, the West’s — position in at least the northern Middle East. Having been thwarted twice before in efforts to leave Syria, in March and December 2018, President Donald Trump made one more try. For many, ‘Trump...
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Zeruya Shalev: On ‘Pain’ And Her Role As Israel’s Literary Therapist
by Liam Hoare

The translation of Zeruya Shalev’s 2015 novel Pain should be the moment she assumes ‘her rightful place in the English-speaking world’s literary imagination alongside Amos...
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