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New divisions in Israeli society may benefit the Palestinians

  • Two days after the swearing-in of Israel’s most extreme, ultranationalist and ultrareligious government, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians celebrated the 58th anniversary of the birth of the oldest and most popular Palestinian nationalist liberation movement — Fatah. The Fatah anniversary w...
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Libya’s last chance ahead of partition

  • The inter-Libyan dialogue has been going on, at various levels, for years. It has resulted in a number of understandings and agreements, the most prominent of which was the Skhirat agreement of December 2015, which established a Presidency Council and an interim government, thus ending the d...
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Jordan’s strikes may be just the tip of the iceberg

  • Jordan is going through testing times. A truckers’ and public transportation strike over high fuel prices has stalled the economy and interrupted supply chains, while the government has made it clear that it cannot afford to abolish taxes imposed on oil derivatives because of the negative impac...
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Netanyahu’s ‘crazy team’ set to cross all red lines

  • Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has until Dec. 21 to form the most extreme government in the history of the country, complete with ultranationalists, religious Zionists and far-right Cabinet members. The Likud leader has no challenger, but if he fails to hammer toge...
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Newly signed framework agreement is Sudan’s best chance

  • More than a year after the military broke a tense partnership with civilian factions in Sudan by toppling a transitional government, the two sides on Monday signed a framework agreement in Khartoum aimed at putting the country back on the road to civilian rule. Between October 2019 and now, te...
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Force will not end Iran’s popular uprising

  • In the last 43 years — since a popular uprising toppled the authoritarian rule of the shah in 1979 — Iranians have known only two supreme rulers: Ayatollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei. Under Iran’s complex system of government, the supreme leader holds real power and his will supersedes that of t...
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Erdogan’s high-risk gambit in northern Syria

  • Turkiye may be just a few days away from launching one of the biggest ground offensives into northern Syria since it first ventured into its war-torn neighbor in 2016. On Saturday night, its air force struck Kurdish targets it suspected of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, People’s Def...
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Rejuvenated Biden now needs to reset foreign policy goals

  • At the end of day, there was no red wave sweeping the polls in the US midterm elections. Against the odds and almost all polls, the Democrats were able to retain the Senate, while giving the Republicans a paper-thin majority in the House. President Joe Biden was elated — as he should be. Voters...
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Netanyahu comeback is Jordan’s worst nightmare

  • The 28-year-old peace between Jordan and Israel has been anything but normal. The two countries share a checkered history, having fought three wars since 1948 before finally signing a peace treaty in 1994; one that the majority of Jordanians still reject. But throughout the “frigid” peace betwe...
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Toxic Aoun era merely a symptom of Lebanon’s terminal disease

  • Michel Aoun this week left Lebanon’s presidential palace a day before his six-year term was due to end, but not before detonating a mine that will further suck the troubled country into a constitutional black hole. He signed a decree accepting the resignation of the government and demanded Naji...
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