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After the Israeli Parliament passed the law in 2018 referred to as a “breach of the duty of loyalty,” the Ministry of…
In December 2023, former State Department official, Josh Paul told CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour that during his tenure in the foreign service,…
The modern Middle East suffers from a consequentially glaring paradox: oil-rich Arab states undoubtedly possess some of the most concentrated geopolitical and…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 26 triumphantly announced the āsigning of the Trilateral Framework between Lebanon, Israel and the United States.ā…
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israelās general electionsālikely to…
My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. āGet out of there,ā she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria,…
Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at…
It is 19 April 2025. A 12-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are playing in front of their house in the village…
Introduction Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed one of the largest waves of protest since the Iraq War. Student encampments…
A sitting United States congressman was detained for more than an hour last week by armed men carrying American-made rifles, and when…
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