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Articles by MEF Staff and Fellows

Middle East Forum Observer
UNRWA Is Complicit in Terror; Disband It
August 7, 2024
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Gregg Roman
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What Will Iran Do Next?
August 7, 2024
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Jonathan Spyer
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To Defeat the Houthis, Starve Their Military Resupply
August 7, 2024
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Michael Rubin
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A Gazan Activist in Northwest Syria: Interview
August 6, 2024
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Middle East Forum Observer
Student Radicals from DSA Prepare for Another Round of Pro-Hamas Activism
August 5, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
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Why Turkey’s Erdoğan Threatened Israel with a Proxy War
August 2, 2024
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Jonathan Spyer
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Iran-Led Axis Is Likely to Launch Joint Attack, but Can’t Reverse Israeli Gains in Gaza
July 31, 2024
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Lazar Berman
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Blinken Says U.S. Not Responsible for Ismail Haniyeh Killing; That’s Too Bad
July 31, 2024
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Michael Rubin
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Two Cheers for the Mossad
July 31, 2024
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Rafael Bardaji
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What Does Haniyeh’s Assassination Imply?
Israel has wavered between ‘total victory’ over Hamas and pursuit of a deal. The strike in Iran may end that argument.
July 31, 2024
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Daniel Pipes
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Elements from within the security forces of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani engaged in the abduction of a U.S. citizen. Other parts of the same security forces then negotiated with the abductors to secure the release of the U.S. citizen in return for the release of the Iraqi personnel who had carried out an attack on a U.S. base. Image: Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops in Tehran, November 4, 2022.
Middle East Forum Online
Iraq’s Militia State: Shelly Kittleson’s Kidnapping Exposes Who Runs Baghdad
Iraq Is in the Hands of Bodies and Individuals Answerable to Tehran
April 12, 2026
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Jonathan Spyer
More than 200 Ukrainian military officers and specialists are now operating in western Libya, coordinating with the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity under Abdul Hamid Dbeibah (above).
Middle East Forum Online
Libya: A Nation Hijacked as a Proxy Battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine Shadow War
Libya’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure, Already Chronically Vulnerable, Now Sits Squarely in the Crosshairs of Gray-Zone Operations
April 12, 2026
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Amine Ayoub
A Royal Air Force Boeing CH-47 Chinook fying over Akrotiri, one of two British-controlled territories retained after Cypriot independence.
Middle East Forum Observer
Cyprus, the British Bases, and the Limits of Military Access
The Objective Is to Reshape How the Bases Function in Practice, Particularly During Regional Instability
April 12, 2026
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Nicoletta Kouroushi
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