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Laying Siege to Gaza Is No Solution
Oct 9, 2023Yousef MunayyerThe Israeli military is once again dropping bombs on the besieged Gaza Strip. Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on the P…
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Saudi-Israel normalisation remains a distant dream for Biden
Sep 20, 2023Imad K. HarbRiyadh is driving a hard bargain for normalisation, with demands that neither US Congress nor Netanyahu's regime are likely to accept. Despite functional coope…
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Why Palestinians Aren’t Joining Israel’s Protests
Apr 7, 2023Yousef MunayyerIn most societies, vulnerable minorities are the biggest proponents of strong and independent courts, as it is the judiciary that often shields these groups fr…
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Reeling from dual crises, Syria needs more than just humanitarian aid
Mar 6, 2023Radwan ZiadehThis month marks 12 years since the civil war began in my homeland, Syria. The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more. Then…
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There should be no more Middle East exception in US policy
Jan 18, 2023Dana El KurdArab public opinion of the US is low because of its hypocrisy over the issue of democracy. It is time to change that.
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De-Normalizing Israeli Normalization at the World Cup
Dec 13, 2022Dana El KurdAt the international soccer tournament, Qatari anti-normalization activists as well as ordinary spectators have put Palestinian solidarity in the spotlight.Thi…
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Rise of Israel’s Anti-Arab Party Jeopardizes Regional Normalization
Nov 23, 2022Dana El KurdThe recent Israeli elections, which brought the far-right Religious Zionist Party further into the mainstream, have sparked concern among policymakers across t…
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Fighting Corruption in the Arab World Should Be a U.S. Priority
Nov 1, 2022Imad K. HarbIn June of 2021, the Biden administration announced that it would be establishing the fight against corruption as a core concept in US national security and a …
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Why Can’t AIPAC Defend Israel?
Aug 4, 2022Yousef MunayyerWhen it comes to the lobby’s massive spending in Democratic primaries, Zionism has become the cause that dare not speak its name. The American Israel Public Af…
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Will Israel further normalize relations with its Arab neighbors?
Jul 11, 2022Dana El KurdAs President Biden prepares to visit Saudi Arabia to meet with nine Arab leaders, Saudi, American and Israeli media have reported that talks of a broader norma…
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Why Egypt is not too big to fail
May 30, 2022Khalil Al-AnaniEgypt is going through a severe economic crisis amid a high level of external debt, which has soared past $145bn, although there are suspicions that the real f…
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On Watching Ukraine Through Palestinian Eyes
Mar 4, 2022Yousef MunayyerTanks rolling through city streets. Bombs dropping from fighter jets onto apartment buildings. Military checkpoints. Cities under siege. Families separated, fl…
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The ISIS leader killed in a U.S. special forces raid will be replaced. ISIS is reviving.
Feb 3, 2022Charles W. DunnePresident Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday that a U.S. special forces operation in Idlib province in northern Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi,…
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For the sake of Palestine, we need to talk about the infighting eating away at pro-Palestine activism
Jan 24, 2022Dana El KurdYet another obscene murder in the West Bank drew outrage from the usual circles, but was passed over by most as just "business as usual." Omar Abdulmajeed Asaa…
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Will the UAE succeed in Rehabilitating Assad
Nov 25, 2021Radwan ZiadehPolitics, as it is said, is based on profit and loss, and profit and loss here is based on the interests of the people who are entrusted with the government to…
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Political symbolism in the coup against Hassoun
Nov 19, 2021Radwan ZiadehPerhaps the abolition of the position of the Mufti in Syria, which dates back to 1918, and the formation of what the Assad regime called the “Scholarly Jurispr…
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The Emirates in Assad’s Lap (in Arabic)
Nov 10, 2021Radwan ZiadehIn the state of democratic institutions, three factors are always taken into consideration when making any decision related to internal and foreign policy. The…
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The Long Arm of Israeli Repression
Nov 5, 2021Yousef MunayyerThe recent designation of six leading Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz—which has been dismiss…
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How Egypt and the UAE are exporting coups across the region
Nov 3, 2021Khalil Al-AnaniAbdel Fattah el-Sisi and Mohammed bin Zayed have been targeting democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, worried that such calls for change …
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Israel escalates its attacks against defenders of Palestinian rights, wherever they may be
Oct 30, 2021Yousef MunayyerThe Israeli government slapped a “terrorism” designation on six Palestinian human rights groups that have worked closely with Western governments and internati…
