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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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The conflict between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the army and auxiliaries of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, now subject to a partially observed four-day ceasefire, was probably inevitable. But few expected it to erupt with such sudden fury.
Middle East Forum Online
The West Stays Silent as Its Kurdish Allies Face Attacks by Syria’s ‘Reformed’ Islamist Government
We May See the Wholesale Destruction of the Forces and the Authority That Paid the Highest Price to Defeat ISIS
January 22, 2026
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Jonathan Spyer
Around 30,000 Isis family members – wives and male and female children up to the age of 18, are held in the vast and sprawling al-Hol camp, close to the border with Iraq, and in the smaller Roj camp, which houses among other jihadi spouses and widows, the former British citizen Shamima Begum. Three women inside the al-Hol camp, Dec. 20, 2022.
Middle East Forum Online
Syria’s Islamic State Campus Could Fall
The Advance of the Syrian Govt. Forces Has Been Accompanied by Atrocities, Including the Execution of Prisoners and the Abuse and Tormenting of Captured Female Kurdish Fighters
January 22, 2026
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Jonathan Spyer
Advocates promoting Islamist agendas have embedded themselves in Canada’s federal bureaucracy. In addition to promoting anti-Israelism in the workplace, Muslim activists have worked to change the office environment to make it more sharia-compliant.
FWI News
Canadian Islamists Assail Workplace Neutrality in Government Offices
Muslim Prayer Rooms and No Handshakes—Signs of Ideological Capture
January 22, 2026
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Joe Adam George
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