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"This Is Not the Country I Dreamed of": Turkey's Youth Want Out

Turkey's Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, once declared his political mission as "raising devout (Muslim) generations." Research in recent years has shown that Turkish youths have defied Erdoğan's most ambitious social...

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Libya Reveals How Turkey Blackmailed Country into Energy, Mercenary Deals

Turkey "took advantage of our weakness," officials of Libya's Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) now say.

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Paradoxical Turkey

Burak Bekdil on the strange and humorous political climate in Turkey.

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For Israel, Not Winning is Losing

Israel's unwillingness to defeat its enemies invites further aggression. From Nave Dromi.

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Dead Wrong: Johan Norberg on Historical Christian-Islamic Conflict

An especially stark example of how Leftists thrive on distorting history—a tactic pivotal to their very being—recently appeared. In a video titled "Dead Wrong: The Anti-Muslim Myth," Johan Norberg, a senior fellow at the Cato...

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Drones: A Global Threat?

The world once tried to ban armed drones, but now everyone has them. From Seth Frantzman.

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Iran's Fake US Aircraft Carrier on the Move

Iran has a giant fake aircraft carrier that it has used over the years to practice with during naval drills to show off that it can attack US carriers. Now the lumbering model boat is on the move, satellite photos show. The US...

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The Islamist Takeover of George Floyd

We Americans seem quite capable of separating ourselves into fractious groups without the help of our enemies, but that hasn't stopped many, especially the Islamists of the world, from using the death of George Floyd to fuel our...

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Spotlight: Israel, the West Bank, and Annexation

While Middle East Forum staff and fellows share broadly similar world views and a common mission, disagreements over strategy and tactics have been common throughout MEF's 26-year history. Israel's proposed annexation of portions of the West Bank widely expected to fall within its borders in a final peace settlement has elicited a range of opinions, including enthusiastic approval (Nave Dromi), more cautious (Gregg Roman) or partial endorsement (Efraim Inbar on the Jordan Valley), and reasoned disapproval (Daniel Pipes and Seth Frantzman). All seek to strengthen America's most reliable Middle East ally; the devil is in the details.

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The Charade of Israel's Annexation
by Seth Frantzman (Jun 25, 2020)
Why the UAE's Unprecedented Annexation Warning to Israel Matters
by Seth Frantzman (Jun 12, 2020)
Bibi's Brilliant Annexation Bluff?
by Matthew Mainen (Jun 12, 2020)
What Would Ben-Gurion Do?
by Daniel Pipes (May 28, 2020)
Sovereignty Is an Important Step towards Palestinian Defeat
by Nave Dromi (May 27, 2020)
No Time to Annex Like the Present
by Matthew Mainen (May 10, 2020)
A Reply to My Critics
by Daniel Pipes (May 10, 2020)
The Israeli Consensus on Annexation Can Break the Peace Deadlock
by Gregg Roman (May 9, 2020)
Annexing the West Bank Would Hurt Israel
by Daniel Pipes (May 7, 2020)
Netanyahu's Annexation Plan Can't Be Stopped
by Efraim Inbar (Apr 29, 2020)

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