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Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Welcome to the “New Gaza”
May 19, 2020Ibrahim Fraihat
Ibrahim Fraihat suggests that Palestinians should disabuse themselves of the idea that a one-state solution is possible for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict si…
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Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance
The Netanyahu-Gantz Coalition Farce
Apr 30, 2020Khalil E. Jahshan
The emerging differences about the issue of annexation between the two coalition partners could become the massive rock on which their agreement is apt to cras…
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Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Israel Has Effective Control over Gaza
Mar 28, 2020Jonathan Kuttab
During the coronavirus pandemic Israel must understand and implement its obligations toward Gaza’s citizens and abide by its responsibilities under the Geneva …
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Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance
The Palestinian Arab Vote in Israel: Facing the Ultimate Test of Inclusion
Mar 2, 2020Khalil E. Jahshan
The Palestinian Arab vote can challenge the Palestinians’ disenfranchisement but that they will never be welcome as full partners in the Israeli political syst…
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SyriaEnergy and Economics
The Collapse of the Syrian Pound May Doom the Syrian Economy
Jan 23, 2020Radwan Ziadeh Imad K. Harb
Syria’s most difficult battle now is how to support its national currency and fix its collapsing economy with an impoverished central bank and the absence of r…
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IraqUS Foreign Policy
The Coming American Defeat in Iraq
Jan 6, 2020Marina Ottaway
The vote by Iraq’s Parliament to force the withdrawal of American troops from the country marks the beginning of the end of the 2003 US intervention.
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
US Policy Reversal on Israeli Settlements
Nov 21, 2019Khalil E. Jahshan
Khalil E. Jahshan believes that the Trump Administration’s policy reversal about Israeli settlements is an overture to the president’s evangelical supporters a…
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IraqUS Foreign Policy
Putting al-Baghdadi’s Demise in Perspective
Oct 30, 2019Khalil E. Jahshan
Khalil E. Jahshan looks at the deeper meaning of the United States’ killing of IS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi and doubts if his demise will portend the end of …