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A Year That Has Brought Us to the Breaking Point
Oct 7, 2024Yousef MunayyerAlongside 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 KurdThe 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 MunayyerUnless 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 ShelineMany 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 MunayyerThe 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 ShelineRegional 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 ShelineWhen 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 KurdDespite 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 MunayyerDemocrats 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 MunayyerWhat 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 MunayyerAs 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 KurdM 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 MunayyerThe 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. DunneA 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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Biden Aims to Contain Violence in Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead
Oct 25, 2023Shibley TelhamiAs bouts of violence in Israel/Palestine have become more frequent, the Biden administration has been aiming to ‘calm down tensions’ and prevent further escala…
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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.