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    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    GCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications

    Oct 9, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

    The positions of the GCC countries toward Israel's war on Lebanon are appear divided. All share a deep concern about escalation and its potential impact on the…

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    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    One Year After October 7: Assessments and Implications

    Oct 8, 2024Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Annelle Sheline

    Experts analyze various aspects of the past year of Israel’s war on Gaza and now its campaign against Hezbollah and Lebanon.

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    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The War Israel Wants but Hezbollah Rejects

    Sep 20, 2024Imad K. Harb

    The Israeli war on Hezbollah has just entered another deadly phase characterized by the sophisticated, but criminally minded, use of cyber warfare to detonate …

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    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Gaza, the American Elections, and the Fallout of a Disaster

    Sep 19, 2024Charles W. Dunne

    The United States, sometimes considered the adult in the room when arbitrating international conflicts, has proved to be more of an adolescent when it came to …

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    Palestine/IsraelProtests and Activism

    US University Campuses Will Stifle Students’ Protests Next Year

    Sep 16, 2024Jonathan Kuttab

    The student protests and the encampment movement that exploded on campuses toward the end of the 2024 school year pitted students (and faculty) protesting the …

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    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Discrediting the Living and Denying the Dead in Gaza: Justifying Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians

    Sep 12, 2024Yara M. Asi

    In mid-August 2024, the world stood witness to one of the few personal tragedies from Gaza to make global headlines. Israeli airstrikes killed two 3-day-old tw…

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    YemenUS Foreign Policy

    Assessing GCC Perspectives on American-British Strikes Against Yemen’s Houthis

    Sep 11, 2024Giorgio Cafiero

    Since last November, Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, commonly known as the Houthis, has been attacking commercial and merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden and th…

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    TurkeyRegional Relations and Geopolitics

    Turkey Is Not an Actor in the Gaza Conflict

    Aug 21, 2024Salim Çevik

    Prior to the Hamas attack on October 7, Turkey was in the process of political reconciliation with Israel. Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Turkey in 202…

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    Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism

    Sde Teiman and Beit Lid Events: A Reading into the Militiazation of the Israeli State

    Aug 21, 2024Mohanad Mustafa

    The storming by right-wing groups of the Sde Teiman military camp in the Negev—a brutal detention center for residents of Gaza—and the Beit Lid barracks on the…

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    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    “A Cycle of Deprivation”: The Challenges of Getting Humanitarian Aid into Gaza

    Aug 14, 2024Yara M. Asi

    On March 7, exactly five months after Israel initiated a military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has been increasingly described as a genocide, President Joe …

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    Palestine/IsraelInternational Law

    Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus and the Inadequacy of International Law

    Aug 7, 2024Karam Burjas

    On October 16, 2023, Israel indiscriminately targeted civilians in Al-Duhayra, a town in Southern Lebanon, with a chemical agent that can burn skin to the bone…

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    Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance

    No Good ‘Day After’ Under Current Palestinian Politics

    Aug 7, 2024Dana El Kurd

    Some 300 days into the Israeli war on Gaza, and following Israel’s shocking July 31 assassination of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, a major figure in ceasefire negoti…