Robert Satloff is the Segal Executive Director of The Washington Institute, a post he assumed in January 1993.
Articles & Testimony
Two decades of disuse and neglect may have made salvaging Egypt-Israel peace in the post-Mubarak era an impossible task. But the stakes are too high not to try.
Two decades of disuse and neglect may have made salvaging Egypt-Israel peace in the post-Mubarak era an impossible task. But the stakes are too high not to try.
It's the granddaddy of all American diplomatic achievements in the Middle East. It represents one of the greatest Western victories of the Cold War. It has prevented the drift toward a region-wide Arab-Israeli military confrontation for more than 30 years. It is the foundation both of Israel's security doctrine and the Jewish state's transformation from an economic basket case into a first-world economic power. It has made possible every hopeful move toward Arab-Israeli peace for the past generation. And it -- the Egypt-Israel peace treaty -- is hanging on by a thread...
Robert Satloff is the executive director of The Washington Institute.
