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Lebanese cities reduced to ashes as Qassem talks of ‘victory’

  • In a speech that monotonously and mindlessly emphasized the word “victory,” new Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem declared last week: “As we won in July 2006, we will win today.” But Lebanon never won in 2006 and there is no victory to be obtained for the Lebanese people in 2024. Qassem was unable...
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Iran’s only salvation is through peace with Arab states

  • Smuggled from one safe house to the next, communicating with underlings via scraps of paper for fear of using a phone, and with his foremost regional commanders dead, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is perhaps pondering how his actions have brought Iran to this miserable juncture. The Iranian supreme ...
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Humiliated ayatollahs are already plotting the next war

  • After Iran’s second massive barrage of rockets last week, which failed to cause any significant damage to its targets in Israel, Ayatollah Khamenei’s speech — delivered in Arabic — spoke volumes about who his priority audiences are. He asserted that “resistance” factions such as Hamas and Hez...
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Baghdad plays unwilling host to Iran’s axis of evil

  • In a further move toward making Iraq a front-line state in Iran’s “axis of resistance,” Baghdad’s militia-dominated administration recently gave permission for both Hamas and the Houthis to set up permanent offices in the capital. Even Iraqi officials horrified by the development have been unab...
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Dire warnings of regional war... but is anybody listening?

  • If the Gaza protagonists succeed in grudgingly inching toward a ceasefire, despite most of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conflict objectives remaining unmet, the question then would be: what next? Following weeks of intensified skirmishes across Lebanon’s southern border, Hassan...
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Arab leaders in Bahrain: No peace without Palestinian state

  • Whether in US campuses, Western capitals or Arab streets, we have been swamped with overheated rhetoric about the Gaza situation — with very little done in practice to ameliorate the situation. That is why last week’s Manama Arab League Summit represented a victory for reason over rhetoric — a ...
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Electoral comeuppance for moral leadership failures

  • In Britain, America and much of the Western world, there has been much nervous talk about the “Muslim vote.” In last week’s local council elections in England, the Labour Party significantly underperformed in some urban areas where voters, angered by the party’s position on Gaza, turned out i...
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Iran is staring down the barrel of a very large gun

  • After all the bluster, posturing and rhetoric, Iran has finally done its worst, firing hundreds of rockets and explosive drones at Israel in retaliation for an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. The result was about as ruinously destructive as a fireworks party in your next-door ne...
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‘Resisting’ Israel from Jordan, Iraq and Yemen

  • For the past six months, Iran and its proxies have toyed with the Gaza war; dialing tensions up and down for their own propaganda ends, while shying away from any significant escalation that could cast them fully into the conflict. Tehran has consistently sought to diminish threats facing it di...
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Daesh back on the warpath

  • The massacre at a public event in Moscow last week, which killed at least 140 people, was one of the largest terrorist attacks in recent years, coming just a few weeks after another mass-fatality attack in Iran at the tomb of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. In a message marking the 10t...
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