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Shifting the Paradigm: The One-State Solution as a Path to Peace
Dec 14, 2023Samer ElchahabiThe current round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, marked by the deaths of some 1,200 people in Israel and more than…
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Criminal Injustice in the “Court of Occupation”: Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Dec 13, 2023Yara M. AsiAhed Tamimi was just 16 when she was first arrested by Israel, after kicking and shoving two Israeli soldiers…
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Are Israel and the United States on a Collision Course?
Dec 13, 2023Daniel BrumbergIn a December 8 story that seems to have received little attention in western press coverage of Israel’s expanding…
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Is Anti-Zionism a Form of Anti-Semitism?
Dec 9, 2023Azmi BisharaA bipartisan group of House members proposed HR 6578, that, if passed, would create a “Commission to Study Acts…
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Egypt Muddles Through the Crisis in Gaza
Dec 6, 2023Imad K. HarbEgypt has considered the Gaza Strip to be a soft underbelly since it ruled it prior to 1967, but…
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Assessing Yemen as a Second Front in the Gaza War
Nov 30, 2023Nabeel A. KhouryOn November 19, Yemen’s Houthis hijacked a cargo ship indirectly linked to Israel as it was traveling in the…
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Erdoğan, Gaza, and Turkey’s Regional Reconciliation
Nov 30, 2023Salim ÇevikTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's first statements following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli…
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Hamas’s “Al-Aqsa Flood” Challenges Iran’s Axis of Resistance
Nov 27, 2023Daniel BrumbergWhile the Biden administration, with Qatar’s support, has succeeded in securing a deal with Israel and Hamas for a…
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GCC States and the War on Gaza: Positions, Perceptions, and Interests
Nov 22, 2023Kristian Coates UlrichsenThe war on Gaza has for all intents and purposes reinstated the centrality of the Palestinian issue to the…
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Israel’s Central Bank Governor Tries to Assure International Markets
Nov 21, 2023Barhoum JaraisiLast October, at a conference of the International Monetary Fund in the United States, the Governor of the Central…
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Gaza, the Ruin of US Policy, and a Transformed Middle East
Nov 16, 2023Charles W. DunneThe Biden administration must act quickly and offer specific plans and timelines to shape post-conflict expectations and establish its…
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US Military Presence in the Middle East: Deterrence and Retaliation
Nov 14, 2023Gregory AftandilianThe United States has recently bolstered its military presence in the Middle East as the Israeli war on Gaza…
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A Year of Mixed Results for Iraq’s Sudani
Nov 8, 2023Rend Al-RahimIraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shi`a al-Sudani completed his first year in office on October 27 with a mixed record…
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Does Syria Have a Role in the Israel-Hamas Conflict?
Nov 6, 2023Patricia KaramAs the war between Israel and Hamas rages, the Middle East is bracing for a wider, multi-front regional conflict…
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Jordan Sees the War on Gaza in Existential Terms
Nov 2, 2023Curtis RyanLike other countries in the Middle East and around the world, Jordan has been rocked to its very core…
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Gaza and the Harbingers of Future Conflict
Oct 30, 2023Nabeel A. KhouryThe shock of civilian deaths in the latest Israel-Hamas conflagration is both a marker and a warning. It is…
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“An Open-Air Graveyard”: The Unfolding Health Catastrophe in the Gaza Strip
Oct 27, 2023Yara M. AsiIt is impossible to count the number of reports, studies, press releases, and statements that have reported the unbearable…
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Israel, Gaza, and the Laws of War
Oct 27, 2023Jonathan KuttabAddressing his troops as they amass to attack the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant publicly announced…
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The Preliminary Fallout of the War on Gaza
Oct 26, 2023Mada al-CarmelOn the morning of Saturday, October 7, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) launched a surprise attack on Israel, targeting…
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Iraq, Sudani, and the War on Gaza
Oct 25, 2023Rend Al-RahimIn the space of just over two weeks, Israel’s war on Gaza has upended Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shai`…