Rich Goldberg
policy and comms strategic adviser
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We may see the old propaganda of criticizing Israel and saying everybody wants a different future and they're going to support Gaza and the Palestinians, they demand a Palestinian state,
- Goldberg saidFox Newsfoxnews.com/world/middle…
What will be a pathway forward politically that the U.S. can provide to these leaders so that they can normalize with Israel alongside the necessary infrastructure upgrades that they need to make for their own energy securities and physical securities going forward
- Goldberg saidFox Newsfoxnews.com/world/middle…
The opportunity for regional integration and normalization works alongside energy infrastructure meeting the moment, the crisis of needing bypasses for Hormuz,
- Goldberg saidFox Newsfoxnews.com/world/middle…
We can make the Strait of Hormuz irrelevant,
- Goldberg said, describing potential energy links between Saudi Arabia and Israel, as well as routes connecting Qatar to the MediterraneanFox Newsfoxnews.com/world/middle…
Once you've achieved those strategic objectives, it naturally follows" that the U.S. "would focus on the Strait of Hormuz, because you would have done so much damage to their external threat, and you would have reallocated your military resources to that mission,
- Goldberg saidNewsmaxnewsmax.com/politics/donald…
- said Rich Goldberg, a former Trump National Security Council official now at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tankHindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…
Once you’ve once you’ve achieved those strategic objectives, it naturally follows,
- said Rich Goldberg, a former Trump National Security Council official now at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tankHindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…
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