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Palestinians urgently need a leader who represents them – but they’re facing another undemocratic stitch-up
May 8, 2025Dana El Kurd
Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the PLO and the president of the PA, is almost 90 years old. He was elevated by his close ties to the US and willingness to stic…
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Trump’s Second Term Foreign Policy: A Study in Chaos
Apr 4, 2025Charles W. Dunne
The late US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once famously explained his taxonomy of information. "There are known knowns," he said. "There are things we k…
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Ethnic Cleansing Won’t Make the Middle East Safer
Feb 5, 2025Yousef Munayyer
Trump’s proposed takeover of Gaza would derail recent Mideast peace agreements and unravel those signed decades ago.
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Why Syria is so coveted
Jan 26, 2025Rami G. Khouri
Syria today is the most dynamic diplomatic venue in the Middle East because it is the most strategically contested one – as it has been for millennia. The outc…
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The Harris Campaign’s Missed Opportunity on Palestine Voters
Nov 4, 2024Yousef Munayyer
From deliberately excluding Palestinian speakers, to repeatedly failing to indicate any sort of shift from Biden policy in support of the genocide over several…
Policy Analysis
Demystifying How the Hamas Leadership Works
Oct 18, 2024Hanna Alshaikh
In light of the recent news of the death of Yahya Sinwar, Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Arab Center Washington DC is republishing this analytic piece by …
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A Year That Has Brought Us to the Breaking Point
Oct 7, 2024Yousef Munayyer
Alongside the mass graves and beneath the tons of rubble, there may lie another victim: the very possibility of a jointly imagined coexistence.
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Chaos Is Spreading Because Washington Has Learned Nothing
Oct 3, 2024Dana El Kurd
The war in Gaza is only the beginning of mass violence that is likely to increase and spread in Israel and the Palestinian territories and across the region.Th…
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Harris’s Vibes Are Great, but Vibes Won’t Cut It on Israel Policy
Aug 15, 2024Yousef Munayyer
Unless Harris takes some steps to break from Biden’s Israel policy, the same issue that helped tank him could put major obstacles in her path to victory.
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Now Is the Moment for Kamala Harris to Ditch Biden on Gaza
Aug 9, 2024Annelle Sheline
Many on the left were elated when Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that she had selected Tim Walz as her running mate, with progressives citin…
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US Support for Israel Is Collapsing. And AIPAC Knows It
Aug 7, 2024Yousef Munayyer
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee may have succeeded in helping to defeat the pro-Palestinian Cori Bush. But it’s a pyrrhic victory for a losing cau…
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Will Israel Drag the US Into a New Forever War?
Aug 1, 2024Annelle Sheline
Regional war isn’t inevitable if the Biden administration delivers a firm message to Israel: The US will provide neither weapons nor funding for an Israeli war…
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The True Cost of Biden’s Unconditional Support for Israel
Jul 16, 2024Annelle Sheline
When I resigned from the State Department over the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, I felt a brief sense of relief.…
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In Rafah, the seeds of mass violence are being sown
Jun 3, 2024Dana El Kurd
Despite mounting international backlash, the Israeli military has continued its invasion of Rafah—the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip where over a million …
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Israel Policy Could Cost Biden the White House—and Us Democracy
May 20, 2024Yousef Munayyer
Democrats should be very worried about November because the White House’s pro-Israel policy may well cost them dearly in an election that could be decided by u…
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The Smearing of Rashida Tlaib and the Palestinian Calls for Freedom
Nov 10, 2023Yousef Munayyer
What makes the attack on Tlaib even more absurd is that while Congress is demonizing calls for freedom in a space where Palestinians are systematically denied …
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Can Our Leaders Avoid the Terrorism Trap?
Nov 4, 2023Yousef Munayyer
As a devastating crisis continues to unfold with the horrific bombardment of Gaza, there is little sense of how it will end. As a lifelong student of Israel-Pa…
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Muslim and Arab Voters Are Sending Biden a Stark Warning—and He’d Better Pay Attention
Oct 27, 2023Dana El Kurd
M any Americans are expressing outrage over the Biden administration’s handling of the continued Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the ongoing crisis surrounding…
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We’re Seeing the Calamitous Cost of Ignoring Palestine
Oct 27, 2023Yousef Munayyer
The Biden administration thought the Palestine question could be downplayed in pursuit of other objectives. And here we are.
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How likely is a US-Iran escalation in the Middle East?
Oct 26, 2023Charles W. Dunne
A total of 21 US military personnel have sustained injuries after coming under attack 13 times by aerial drones and rockets on bases in Iraq and Syria last wee…

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