May 11, 2018
A Dangerous Israeli-Iranian Escalation in Syria
A Dangerous Israeli-Iranian Escalation in Syria Joe Macaron In the most dangerous escalation since the establishment of the Golan Heights ceasefire line in 1973, Israel and Iran exchanged fire in southwestern Syria under the watch...
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Lebanon’s Elections Provide No Serious Change
Lebanon’s Elections Provide No Serious Change Imad K. Harb Lebanon has just finished a feverish election campaign for its 128-seat Chamber of Deputies. This round followed a nine-year period in which this basic democratic practice...
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Deploying Arab Forces in Syria is not Advisable, nor Possible
Deploying Arab Forces in Syria is not Advisable, nor Possible Radwan Ziadeh Over the last few months, President Donald Trump has made announcements that regional states should bear more of the burden of ridding Syria...
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Seventy Years of Nakba: Ending a Process that Has Not Stopped
Seventy Years of Nakba: Ending a Process that Has Not Stopped Yousef Munayyer On May 15, 2018, Palestinians commemorate 70 years of their Nakba, the catastrophe of dispossession and homelessness that unfolded when the state...
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Mohammed bin Salman Is Wrong on Palestine
Mohammed bin Salman Is Wrong on Palestine Imad K. Harb Critics allege that impetuousness and impatience are driving Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s actions and statements. What could also be driving him to...
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Imad K. Harb: Haftar’s Illness and Libya’s Troubles
Libya’s confusing political environment just became a little more so with the reported illness of strongman General Khalifa Haftar. He is commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), power broker in the east of...
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Radwan Ziadeh: The Kosovo Model for Syria
The April 13, 2018, American-British-French strike on Syria was wider in scope and effect than that of April 2017 on Shairat Air Base; both conducted as punishment for the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons...
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Joe Macaron: The Forgotten Arab League
On April 15, the summit of the League of Arab States will be convened in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It will serve as a reminder that Arabs have a regional, albeit futile, organization that represents their...
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