Juan Cole teaches Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. His newest book, 'Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires' was published in 2020. He is also the author of 'The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East' (2015) and 'Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East' (2008).
At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East : The Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in dangerous disarray. Its primary stated foreign policy goal has been to rally its partners in the region to cooperate with the extremist Israel i government of Benjamin Netanyahu while upholding a “rules-based” international order and blocking Iran and its allies in their policies.
The Justice and Development Party leader also imposed an economic boycott on Israel, interrupting bilateral trade that had reached $7 billion a year and sending the price of fruits and vegetables in Israel soaring, while leading to a shortage of automobiles in the Israeli market.Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party represents the country’s small towns and rural areas and its Muslim businesses and entrepreneurs, constituencies that care deeply about the fate of Muslim Palestinians in Gaza.
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