Biden needs to stick to a plan for his Middle East trip to be successful
Fox News
President Joe Biden will be in the Middle East this week to meet with leaders in Israel and Saudi Arabia. But does he have a vision for the region and a plan?
Aryeh Lightstone served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 2017 to 2021, and was tasked with putting the Abraham Accords into action. He is the author of "Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace—and What Lies Ahead" (Encounter Books, July 12). Follow him on Twitter: @lightstonea.
Indeed, since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, but even more so since the Six-Day War in 1967, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East had been ambiguous, at best—cryptic about its goal, unclear about its enemies, opaque about its friends. Instead of bringing stability and prosperity to the region, this approach, not surprisingly, yielded confusion, which led to chaos and an even more dangerous region.