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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Biden Aims to Contain Violence in Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead
Oct 25, 2023Shibley Telhami
As bouts of violence in Israel/Palestine have become more frequent, the Biden administration has been aiming to ‘calm down…
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Laying Siege to Gaza Is No Solution
Oct 9, 2023Yousef Munayyer
The Israeli military is once again dropping bombs on the besieged Gaza Strip. Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister…
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Saudi-Israel normalisation remains a distant dream for Biden
Sep 20, 2023Imad K. Harb
Riyadh is driving a hard bargain for normalisation, with demands that neither US Congress nor Netanyahu's regime are likely…
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Why Palestinians Aren’t Joining Israel’s Protests
Apr 7, 2023Yousef Munayyer
In most societies, vulnerable minorities are the biggest proponents of strong and independent courts, as it is the judiciary…

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