Category: Middle East
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The Octopus Doctrine: How Israel Is Making U.S.-Iran Nuclear Negotiations More Difficult
By Sydnee Fox // Israel’s operations against Iran have only increased Iranian motivation to acquire nuclear weapons and take revenge on both Israel and the United States, making successful negotiations impossible.
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Botched Surgeries: The Real Costs of Drone Warfare
By Noah Schwartz // Primacy comes at a human cost and drones are only the latest lie sold to the public that America can project force in far-away places in a precise and surgical fashion that limits civilian casualties.
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Will Turkey and NATO Stay Together?
By Christopher Ynclan Jr. // America and all of NATO must recognize that Turkey will be a crucial partner for the security challenges of the remaining 21st century. Now is the time to start mending fences.
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A Human Rights Foreign Policy Demands Dumping the Saudis
By Rishab Chatty // President Biden recently approved a $650 million sale of air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia in a complete reversal of his February announcement. This comes not long after the administration announced a $500 million contract with Saudi Arabia in September, providing the Arab nation with military support and maintenance of its Apache…
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Emirates and Empires: The Taliban, ISIS-K, and China in the New Afghanistan
By Brad Settelmeyer & Alison O’Neil // ISIS-K presents a unique challenge to the Taliban, many of whom have experience as fighters but few of whom are experts in governance. ISIS-K seeks to dissolve nation-state borders and establish an Islamic caliphate with Afghanistan at its heart.
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Israel, Palestine and the Fallacy of the BDS Movement
By David Heimowitz // Israeli-Arabs, sometimes referred to as “Palestinian citizens of Israel,” constitute 21% of Israel’s population. If BDS persuaded companies to initiate a series of successful boycotts, or even embargoes, Israel and Palestine both would witness a drop in their standard of living.
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Gaza: The Paradox of Israeli Sovereignty
By Noah Schwartz // Israel maintains that it desires separation from Gaza. However, it still makes the most important sovereign decision in Gaza: the decision of life and death.
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Northern Syria’s Status Quo: Kind Words and Cruel Airstrikes
By David Islay // Putin and Erdogan like to look friendly for the cameras, but Moscow and Ankara oppose each other in almost every regional conflict in which they are involved. Their friendship is not meant to last.
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A Forgotten Tragedy: Will War Return to Southern Syria?
By David Islay // Three years after the supposed end of the war in Daraa, it seems more likely than ever that the government will attempt to extend its rule over all of Syria by any means necessary.
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The Only Known Known: Rumsfeld, Iraq and the End of Both
By Scott Strgacich