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Alex Joffe

Alex Joffe is a Shillman-Ingerman Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a senior non-resident scholar at the BESA Center.

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Alex JoffeBegin-Sadat Center for Strategic StudiesMay 18, 2021
Gaza and the war between the Democrats
Facile perceptions are thus being forced into narratives of Israel and the Palestinians: white versus black, winners versus losers, powerful versus the powerless.
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Alex JoffeBegin-Sadat Center for Strategic StudiesMay 4, 2021
The two faces of American foreign policy
The ongoing crisis in American culture has brought two seemingly unrelated trends to the forefront.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterFebruary 4, 2021
Biden’s foreign policy: A preliminary assessment
Everything old is new again; U.S. allies must prepare for a period of American weakness and possibly even betrayal.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterJanuary 5, 2021
The swamp returns to Washington
The incoming administration's appointments and statements indicate a return to the process-laden policies of the past that is unlikely to be adequate to confront rogue states like China and Iran.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterNovember 16, 2020
The US election: Preliminary lessons for America’s allies
What would the re-establishment of these “norms” by Obama-era experts mean, particularly in a world reorganized by Trump, the coronavirus pandemic and China?
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterSeptember 7, 2020
US foreign policy on the verge of the election
With the U.S. presidential election rapidly approaching, an assessment of US foreign policy is in order.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterJuly 14, 2020
Israeli sovereignty and its unlikely benefactors
Barack Obama may turn out to be an unintended godfather of Israel’s sovereignty bid.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterJune 4, 2020
After New York …
People and power are moving out of New York at an increasing rate. What are the implications for the United States, the world order and the global Jewish community?
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterApril 23, 2020
Coronavirus: A Sputnik moment for science education
Like the Sputnik satellite launch in 1957, the pandemic represents a chance to transform science and technology, though powerful institutional and cultural forces are working against such a goal.
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Alex JoffeFebruary 26, 2020
Sanders, AIPAC and Israel
Unpacking Sen. Bernie Sanders’s refusal to attend the annual AIPAC Policy Conference reveals a gambit to split U.S. Jews not only from AIPAC, but from Israel.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterFebruary 4, 2020
Democrats, experts and peace plans
The Democratic presidential candidates’ blanket rejection of Trump's peace plan evinces a troubling addiction to past orthodoxies—namely, expert-driven analysis and investment in processes that have failed for decades.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterJanuary 7, 2020
Soleimani, the Blob and the Echo Chamber 
The responses of the American foreign-policy apparatus and its media enablers to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani give us a glimpse into U.S. policy under a future Democratic administration.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterDecember 22, 2019
The implications of the British election for Jews and Israel
The greatest lesson of the British experience for American Jews and for Israel is to avoid complacency.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterOctober 28, 2019
Clarity amid chaos: The implications of Trump’s Syria policy
The U.S. withdrawal from Syria has produced chaotic results, but as is often the case with Trump’s presidency, also inadvertent moments of clarity.
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Alex JoffeBESA CenterOctober 15, 2019
BDS, anti-Semitism and class
Anti-Semitism, in part through BDS-fueled antipathy towards Israel, is becoming a signal of middle-class respectability.
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