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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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Lebanon's parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri during a 2019 visit to Iraq.
Middle East Forum Observer
After Khamenei and Larijani, Lebanon’s Nabih Berri and Iraq’s Hadi Amiri and Ali Nizar Must Go
The U.S. Must Judge Terrorists by Their Actions and Ideology, Not the Veneer of Respectability with Which They Paint Themselves
March 22, 2026
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Michael Rubin
The World Values Survey investigated the values that peoples hold all over the world. Cultural values were plotted in two dimensions: traditional versus secular-rational values, and survival versus self-expression values. The results show that the values of nations cluster along religious lines: Protestant versus Confucian versus Catholic versus Christian Orthodox versus Islamic. Religion doesn’t determine everything, but it accounts for a great deal.
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Where Do We Get Our Values From?
March 21, 2026
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Mark Durie
A pin marks the Strait of Hormuz, a politically sensitive region in the Persian Gulf.
Middle East Forum Observer
Mixed U.S. Signals Meet Iran’s Bid to Control Hormuz Access
Many Countries May Try to Negotiate Arrangements with Tehran, to Avoid an Open-Ended Military Effort to Secure the Waterway
March 21, 2026
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Mardo Soghom
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