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The F35 is not a sensor or a radar; it is a platform whose stealth, sensor fusion, and netted lethality erase the old calculus. The question is no longer “if” another Arab power will own advanced U.S. kit; it is “on what political and technological leash.”
Middle East Forum Online
The $100 Billion Gambit: How the Saudi F-35 Deal Rewrites Global Security Rules
The American Saudi Flirtation over up to 48 F-35s Is a Rewriting of the Rules That Have Long Undergirded Middle East Stability
November 20, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
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Beyond October 7th: Winning the War Against Antisemitism in America
Why Israel’s Military Victory Demands an Equal Response to Antisemitism at Home
November 20, 2025
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Gregg Roman
Turkish authorities’ selective blindness toward drug trafficking is amplified by Turkey’s geography, a convergence point for Afghan heroin, Latin American cocaine, Iranian meth and Syrian-Lebanese Captagon, and by its logistics network, which includes major container hubs like Mersin, Ambarlı, İzmit and Tekirdağ.
Middle East Forum Online
Turkey’s Drug Seizures Reveal a Much Larger Trafficking Pipeline Under Political Protection
Drug Trafficking in Turkey Operates in a Permissive Atmosphere Nurtured over Two Decades by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Ruling Justice and Development Party
November 20, 2025
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Abdullah Bozkurt
When crises erupt, UNHCR can respond almost overnight. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland.
Middle East Forum Online
Greece Must Be Proactive on U.N. Refugee Post
Greece Increasingly Punches Above Its Weight at the United Nations and on the World Stage
November 20, 2025
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Michael Rubin
Emblem of Liwa al-Furqan. On bottom: “Bravery, intrepidness, steadfastness.”
Middle East Forum Online
Armed Groups in Sudan’s War: Liwa Al-Furqan
Missing in the Wider Coverage Is an Attempt to Understand the Motivations and Aims of the Main Warring Sides
November 20, 2025
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
The culpability extends just as deeply into northwestern Libya, where armed groups linked to Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba play a central role.
Middle East Forum Online
The $20 Billion Betrayal: Libya’s Elite Are Funding Global War with Stolen Gas
The Sum Is Enough National Wealth to More than Triple Libya’s Combined Spending on Both Healthcare and Education
November 20, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Children at the Islamic Education Center in Houston, which has received almost half a million dollars from the Texas state government, perform a song pledging allegiance to Iran's Supreme Leader
FWI Research
Texas Faces a Far Broader Islamist Threat Than Just the Muslim Brotherhood
Gov. Abbott’s Designation of CAIR Is Welcome, but There’s More to Be Done
November 20, 2025
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Sam Westrop
The F-35 is the most advanced fighter jet on earth.
Middle East Forum Observer
Why the F-35 Matters So Deeply to Saudi Arabia
Possessing the Fighter Jet Signals That the United States Sees You as a Partner Capable of Responsible Stewardship of Military Technology
November 20, 2025
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Eric Navarro
The U.N. Security Council meets at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Middle East Forum Observer
The Legal Contradiction at the Heart of Europe’s Palestine Policy
A U.N. Resolution on Gaza Concedes That a State of Palestine Was Not Legally Worthy of Recognition by France and Britain
November 20, 2025
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Elizabeth Samson
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan.
Middle East Forum Observer
Impose Sanctions on Turkey
Turkey, an Important Trading Partner of Russia, Refuses to Jettison the Russian S-400 System and Is Heavily Dependent on Russian Gas
November 20, 2025
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Robert Ellis