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Land Without Peace: Why Abbas Went to the UN
Last week PA President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated that he will continue to boycott peace talks unless Israel gives up – in advance – claim to any territory beyond the 1967 lines. Meaning, for example,...
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UN Investigators Probe Possible Syrian Uranium Enrichment Plant
UN investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atomic...
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Why Syria’s Regime Is Doomed
“This is a regime that is entirely dependent on coercion, and the coercion is failing, and when a regime is entirely dependent on coercion that is not succeeding, you know that that’s a regime that’s...
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Israel Is Wide Awake as Decision Time Approaches on Nuclear Iran
Israel has been publicly debating the wisdom of a military strike on Iran’s nuclear program. But it is not “sleepwalking” into a war. The Israeli discourse is a real debate driven by the feeling that...
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Civilian Casualty Rate in Gaza at Record Low
During the past year along the Gaza border, the IDF says 100 Palestinian combatants were killed in military operations, as well as 9 civilians. This is nearly a 1:10 civilian-to-combatant ratio that is...
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Arab Uprisings Bring a Change in Priorities
Assad did not foresee that the narrative he held up as a basis for why he and the Syrian people were in purported harmony – their common embrace of a narrative of resistance to America and Israel...
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Iran’s Strait of Hormuz: A Challenge to U.S. Policy
A dozen huge tankers exit the Persian Gulf daily through the Strait of Hormuz carrying about 40% of the world’s internationally traded oil. Any disruption of shipping would have an immediate impact on...
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Hamas Says Gaza “Not Occupied,” UN Disagrees
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud Zahar confirmed Tuesday there is no Israeli occupation of Gaza, according to a report by the Ma’anPalestinian news agency. Four-and-a-half years after seizing power in Gaza,...
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Syria’s Srebrenica: The UN Again Plays Accomplice to a Massacre
The UN Security Council on Sunday condemned Syria’s government for the killing of 108 people, mostly women and children, in Houla on Friday. But the condemnation was incomplete: It should have included...
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Iran Doesn’t Belong in the UN or IMF
One step short of force that the “international community” has been unwilling to take is ostracizing Iran from international organizations, such as the UN and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)....
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