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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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Extremists cannot hold the civilized world to ransom

  • The Gaza conflict is fueling tension around the world in a multitude of ways, with huge pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Western capitals often triggering political backlashes. Increasing violence and hate speech against Muslim and Jewish communities threaten to take us back to the divisions a...
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‘Islamic resistance’ weaponizes Arab states against their people

  • US Central Command’s leader Gen. Michael Kurilla warned senators last week that Tehran had “every proxy operationalized” across the region, creating “a convergence of crises” and “the most volatile situation in 50 years,” with US forces and global shipping among the primary targets of these “re...
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Lebanon’s very existence imperiled by this escalating war of egos

  • Intensifying regional conflict is being fueled by a raging war of words as extremist Israeli leaders relentlessly beat the drums of war against Lebanon. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant pledged to intensify operations against Hezbollah, warning that Israel could attack to a depth of 50 km toward “...
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No one is fooled by Iran and its proxies’ smoke-and-mirrors pantomime

  • During yet another of his incessant trips to Beirut, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian declared last week: “War is not the solution, and we absolutely never sought to expand it.” Nevertheless, through a multitude of Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese and Yemeni paramilitaries, expanding ...
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Regional war is upon us if Biden does not halt the Gaza carnage

  • The recent missile strikes against Iran-backed Al-Hashd Al-Sha’abi militants in Iraq may have been one of America’s largest military interventions in years, but they were just one maneuver in a rapidly escalating conflict across many states, encompassing increasingly fierce military exchanges w...
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