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How will a Trump presidency affect Palestine?

  • It was only a few years ago that the Arab world lived and breathed Palestine. We woke up to the Palestinian issue in our morning newspapers; passed much of the day in discussions about the conflict; and then went to bed after hearing updates on TV about Gaza and the West Bank.Among the many...
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The dangers of legitimizing ‘Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi’

  • In a measure, which moderate Sunni politicians are already describing as “the last nail in the coffin of reconciliation,” the Iraqi Parliament on Nov. 26 approved a law integrating the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) into the Iraqi Army.Propagandists for this Iran-sponsored entity say that this...
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Is Iran 100 times worse than Israel?

  • As reports began to flood out of Aleppo last week concerning dozens of citizens shot in the streets by out-of-control regime forces, it was nauseating to see some individuals celebrating. Iran and Hezbollah have been unashamedly congratulating each other for their role in bombing citizens of this...
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Iran in Yemen: See no evil, hear no evil

  • Western leaders have displayed astonishing unwillingness to acknowledge the evidence of their own intelligence agencies and militaries concerning Iranian interference in Yemen and the region.During Gen. James Mattis’ Senate hearings for his appointment as defense secretary last week, it emerged...
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Winners and losers in Iraq’s struggle for supremacy

  • Iraq can be a brutal place, both on and off the battlefield. There has been continued wrangling for control of the most powerful government positions, with three senior posts — defense, interior and finance — remaining empty for six months....
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Iran’s Republican Guard must be designated as terrorists

  • The question should not be whether the Trump administration should designate Iran’s Islamic Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) as terrorists, but why this was not done long ago. The IRGC’s primary objectives are rooted in combatting the US and the West by conventional and non-conventional methods. W...
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Our enemy’s enemy remains the enemy

  • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an astonishing leap of logic last week when they concluded that Arab states were ready to jump into bed with Israel because of their concerns over Iran. The Arab League and numerous other parties rapidly disabused them...
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The catastrophic death of Western diplomacy

  • The new American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is a rather tragic figure. Since he came into the job, he and his colleagues have been sent round the world mopping up after Trump’s inflammatory pronouncements; appeasing the Europeans after threats to ax NATO and conciliating the Mexicans af...
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The liberation of Mosul: Now things get really difficult

  • After months of grinding progress in Mosul, it looks as if Daesh is preparing to flee, heralding the end of the “Islamic State” project in Iraq — in its current form. Good riddance to one of the worst scourges of modern times! For three years Daesh has been a unifying force. Sunni tribes, Shi...
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The real consequences of Syria’s lost generation

  • Imagine a childhood where sudden death and extreme violence were your idea of normal. Many of us would be driven insane by a few seconds of the hellish scenes circulating in their traumatized imaginations. Is it any wonder that so many Syrian children are exhibiting symptoms of chronic trauma? ...
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