Looking Ahead on Jerusalem, and Beyond

For this last week of 2017, we asked our experts to look back on key topics for this year, and predict what they see for the year ahead. CIA veteran and Middle East hand Rob Richer offered his take.

On the fate of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, now that the Trump administration has officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in defiance of the international community:

“The Cipher Brief has become the most popular outlet for former intelligence officers; no media outlet is even a close second to The Cipher Brief in terms of the number of articles published by formers.” —Sept. 2018, Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 62

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