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- This is an October 1973 moment for the Middle East, when the region was on the cusp of an all-out regional war, with Israel at its center. Inconclusive in its outcome, the conflict began a long and arduous endeavor to end all wars. It almost did. October 1973 was a classical war in the sense th...
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress last week left much to be desired. It was surreal; US lawmakers, mostly Republicans, gave him dozens of standing ovations even as he painted an unrealistic and untruthful image of Israel’s war on Gaza. Practicall...
- Throughout its tragic and tumultuous history spanning nearly a century (beginning roughly with the 1917 Balfour Declaration), the Palestinian national cause has never seen a more surreal and bizarre period as the one it finds itself ensnared in today. One can describe the plight of the Palesti...
- As he managed to stretch his control over most of eastern Libya, including the oil fields, after ridding Benghazi of militant threats, Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar is now looking to capitalize on his gains in a bid to have the final say on his country’s future. His entry into the Libyan poli...
- Jordan’s efforts to pacify Syria’s southern front by striking a truce between moderate opposition groups on the one hand, and Syrian government forces in Daraa governorate on the other, appear to have been scuttled following a sudden flare-up of violence that started two weeks ago. Amman wants ...
- If polls are not to be trusted — which seems fair, especially after the polls wrongly predicted the outcome of the US presidential election and the Brexit vote last year — then the party of the most controversial politician in the Netherlands is projected to win the most seats in the March 15 p...
- Nowhere is the conflict in agendas over Syria more evident than in the northern city of Manbij. In recent days, it has become a magnet for a multinational military build-up that includes major players, most at odds with each other. The city of 70,000 citizens, 130 km northwest of Raqqa, is un...
- The withdrawal last week of a UN agency report accusing Israel of being an apartheid state will not change the stark findings and harsh conclusions reached by two distinguished researchers. The report, entitled “Israeli Practices Toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” was...
- Arab leaders meeting at the Dead Sea on Wednesday are not expected to adopt momentous resolutions that could spell a departure from previous positions on key issues including Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Libya and the war on terror. But the overall message from the 28th Arab Summit will be one of...
- Two coordinated surprise offensives by Syrian rebels last week have rattled the Damascus regime and threatened to derail the start of the fifth round of political talks in Geneva. An alliance of rebel groups fighting under the banner of Tahrir Al-Sham had managed to launch lightening raids aga...
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