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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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A student studies with a teacher in a Jordanian school.
Middle East Forum Observer
Jordan Introduces School Textbooks Justifying Hamas Massacre
Rife with Antisemitic Tropes, the Books Omit References to Hamas’s Slaughter of Israelis, the Holocaust, and Jordan’s Peace Treaty with Israel
August 20, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Focused on internal power struggles and oblivious to the outside world's twin obsessions, Jerusalem barely noted the widely-publicized scenes of humiliation and hunger in Gaza that so soured foreign opinions. An Israeli tank driving in the al-Shati refugee camp, North Gaza; March 20, 2024.
Middle East Forum Online
How Israel Became a ‘Leper State'—And How It Can Redeem Itself
August 19, 2025
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Daniel Pipes
Associated heavily with support for the Assad regime as well as the intervention of Iran and Hezbollah on its behalf, Twelver Shia communities have disproportionate numbers of “martyrs” who died fighting within the ranks of the regime’s army and the ‘forces of the friends’ that were affiliated with Iran and Hezbollah.
Middle East Forum Online
The Twelver Shia in Syria
The Twelver Shia in Syria Find Themselves in a Precarious Position Since the Fall of the Assad Regime
August 19, 2025
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
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