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Erdoğan Wins Again in Turkey: What Does It Mean for the Middle East?

Sitting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comfortably defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in this week's runoff vote in the Turkish presidential election. The AKP leader, who has ruled Turkey since 2002, secured...

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Insider: Erdoğan Has Made Billions from Bribes and Kickbacks

A revelation by a regime insider has shed light on how Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has amassed billions of dollars in family wealth during his two-decade rule, which has been marked by rampant corruption in his...

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The 1988 Iranian Prison Massacre

A much ignored yet gruesome massacre in Iran's prisons in 1988 has come to light following three unrelated events. The first is the ascent to the country's presidency, if not to actual power, of Ebrahim Raisi, a former chief...

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Policy Paper: Disarmament of Gaza

The Middle East Forum has released a policy paper challenging Israel's passive "mow the lawn" Gaza policy, instead presenting a path toward Israel Victory. The paper calls on Israel to rid itself of Hamas's threat by disarming...

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Muslim Africans' Harrowing Journey to Israel

"I was dancing with joy when I arrived. It was one of the happiest days of my life." So spoke Ismail Abdul-Rasul, a father of four from Darfur in Sudan, describing his 2007 reception in Israel after five miserable years in Egypt...

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Hezbollah, a Worldwide Criminal Organization

In recent decades, Hezbollah has established itself not only as one of the world's leading terrorist groups and Lebanon's effective master, but also as a prominent transnational crime syndicate. Hezbollah's criminal activities...

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How Israel Can Solve Its Gaza Problem

Israel has in recent years been living with a dangerous phenomenon, to which it has wrongly become accustomed, without any real debate as to its advisability. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are Palestinian terror...

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Brace for Another Tumultuous Five Years of Erdoğan

The second round of Turkey's consequential presidential election on May 28 did not produce a surprise. Turkey's Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, now in his third decade in power, won 52% of the national vote against 48%...

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Spotlight: The Dispute over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

The visit of a handful of Israeli lawmakers to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on May 18 touched off demands throughout the world that Israel sharply restrict Jewish access to Judaism’s holiest site. Middle East Forum staff, fellows, and guest contributors have studied this issue closely, arriving at a loose consensus that such restrictions embolden rejectionists who deny Jewish links to the Holy Land, complicating the search for a lasting settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Israel Must Refuse Jordan's Request to Build on the Temple Mount
by Alex Selsky (Jan 31, 2023)
The Fight Over Jerusalem's Temple Mount
by Benjamin Weinthal (Jan 4, 2023)
To Win the War of Independence, Israel Must Govern the Temple Mount
by Alex Selsky (Dec 18, 2022)
Israel's Temple Mount Concessions Spur Palestinian Hopes for Victory
by Tom Nisani (Apr 27, 2022)
Internationalize the Temple Mount
by Josiah Rotenberg (Nov 11, 2020)
Is the Western Wall Judaism's Holiest Site?
by F.M. Loewenberg (Fall 2017)
A Palestinian Victory at the Temple Mount
by Daniel Pipes (Jul 26, 2017)
Did Jews Abandon the Temple Mount?
by F.M. Loewenberg (Summer 2013)

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