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Robert Silverman

Robert Silverman

A former U.S. diplomat and president of the American Foreign Service Association, Robert Silverman is a lecturer at Shalem College, senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and president of the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance.

The U.S. media have misleadingly reported Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation proceedings as the Trump administration punishing his protected speech.
If we discard the old narrative, and encourage Israelis and Arabs to respond to the alternative Trump vision, we could be on the path to another peace breakthrough in the Middle East.
If Hamas survives this war in any form as an organization capable of launching new attacks, its supporters will declare victory. And they will be right.