{"id":109483,"date":"2021-01-16T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109483"},"modified":"2021-01-16T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:11:17","slug":"u-s-centcom-shift-to-arab-israeli-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109483","title":{"rendered":"U.S. CENTCOM Shift to Arab-Israeli Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109484 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gen-mckenzie-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gen-mckenzie-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gen-mckenzie-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gen-mckenzie-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gen-mckenzie.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, center, will have to figure out how to fold Israel into his mix. (Staff Sgt. Alexandria Brun\/Air Force)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a last-minute reorganization of the American defense structure in the Middle East, President Trump has ordered that the U.S. Central Command oversight be expanded to include Israel. Pro-Israel groups have long advocated for greater cooperation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. CENTCOMM duties will now include execution of American military policy involving both Israel and Arab nations. This is a departure from policies in place for decades due to the hostilities between Israel and some of the Pentagon&#8217;s allies in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<h3>In waning days, Trump shakes up CENTCOM to increase Arab-Israeli efforts against Iran<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Howard Altman<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With just days left in his presidency and in a bid to solidify Arab-Israeli efforts against Iran before Joe Biden takes office, Donald Trump has shaken up the headquarters overseeing U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia.<br \/>\nTrump has ordered U.S. Central Command to add Israel to the list of nations for which it has responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Moving Israel from U.S. European Command responsibility to CENTCOM was once a non-starter because of long-simmering tensions between Israel and its regional neighbors, who have been CENTCOM\u2019s allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. It is the crowning piece of Trump\u2019s efforts to stitch together disparate nations with a common enemy, following the signing of the Abraham Accords, in which Israel normalized relations with former enemies Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Israel will become the 21st nation under CENTCOM\u2019s purview, joining as it is increasingly cooperating with the Sunni-led Gulf States in an alliance of convenience against Shia-led Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden spox have no comment. This makes the existing arrangements official, but there is more involved. Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/01\/15\/in-waning-days-trump-shakes-up-centcom-to-increase-arab-israeli-efforts-against-iran\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, center, will have to figure &hellip; <a title=\"U.S. CENTCOM Shift to Arab-Israeli Cooperation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109483\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. CENTCOM Shift to Arab-Israeli Cooperation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,387,466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-international-affairs","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109501,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109483\/revisions\/109501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}