Wall Street Journal Cites JINSA Report on Relocating Israel to CENTCOMs AOR

Trump Orders Military Shift to Spur Israeli-Arab Cooperation Against Iran
By Michael R. Gordon and Gordon Lubold

Source From Wikimedia Commons: http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom1/Shared%20Documents/Centcom%20Graphics.aspx?PageView=Shared

President Trump has ordered that the major U.S. military command for the Middle East be expanded to include Israel, in a last-minute reorganization of the American defense structure that pro-Israel groups have long advocated to encourage cooperation against Iran, U.S. officials said Thursday.

The move means that the U.S. Central Command would oversee American military policy involving both Israel and Arab nations, a departure from decades of U.S. military command structure put in place because of acrimony between Israel and some of the Pentagon’s Arab allies.

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration policy moves to shape the national security agenda President-elect Joe Biden will inherit. The change was recently ordered by Mr. Trump but hasn’t yet been made public. A Biden transition official declined to comment on the move.

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The Jewish Institute for National Security of America, a Washington-based group that supports close military cooperation between the U.S. and Israel, urged the shift in December as a way to encourage the emerging alignment between Israel and key Arab states against Iran.

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