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Annelle Sheline

Annelle Sheline is a research fellow for the Middle East at the Quincy Institute and a senior nonresident fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C. She resigned from the U.S. State Department in March 2024 to oppose the Biden administration’s illegal support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

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March 10, 2026

Annelle Sheline

The Unbelievable Madness of Our War With Iran

Last year, I warned about the possibility that Israel might drag the United States into a regional conflict. What’s happening now is worse than I could have ever imagined.

August 8, 2024

Annelle Sheline

Now Is the Moment for Kamala Harris to Ditch Biden on Gaza

The Middle East could erupt in regional war any day now. The vice president must act quickly.

July 16, 2024

Annelle Sheline

The True Cost of Biden’s Unconditional Support for Israel

I resigned my State Department position over the administration’s position on Gaza. Biden’s unflagging support for Israel now risks a wider regional war, and could cost him the presidency.

January 13, 2022

Trita Parsi, Annelle Sheline

Biden’s Shameful Silence on Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen

The president vowed to end the war. But the U.S. keeps selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, which keeps using them to wreak misery in Yemen.