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1 day ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Emile Ameen
The Houthis resemble a boxer who, whenever he thinks he is about to strike his opponent, finds himself on the receiving end of devastating blows. However, despite his broken nose, gouged-out eye, and the blood pouring from his face, he refuses to leave the ring. Such behavior is met with glorification and veneration by the Resistance Axis.
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1 day ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Emile Ameen |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Will they, won’t they? This is the question that those interested in current talks between Tehran and Washington on Iran’s nuclear program are darting around in the hope of getting a straight answer. Public statements from both sides offer no clear answer. President Donald Trump seems confident that an accord that reflects his wishes is well on the way to conclusion. He is even musing about a golden age of prosperity that awaits Iranians once the accord is signed.
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6 days ago | 
gatestoneinstitute.org | Amir Taheri
In one of his memorable comments on the current state of Europe, the late Pope Francis expressed the wish that, in a world gripped by turmoil and war, the old continent becomes a field hospital for victims from the four corners of the globe. The comment implies that real or imagined victimhood provides anyone with a seat at the high table of privileges cast as human rights.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed
The State of Israel emerged in 1948, and its emergence was accompanied by a war and the expulsion of the Palestinian population. Its birth thus became the foundational act that precipitated many subsequent wars and, eventually, the “Arab-Israeli conflict.” However, its emergence was also foundational to the rise of military regimes and radical ideologies in the Levant.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Hazem Saghieh |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed
In one of his memorable comments on the current state of Europe, the late Pope Francis expressed the wish that in a world gripped by turmoil and war the old continent becomes a field hospital for victims from the four corners of the globe. The comment implies that real or imagined victimhood provides anyone with a seat at the high table of privileges cast as human rights.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Mohammed al-Rumaihi |Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri
Baghdad is relieved because it managed to avoid falling into several traps. Iraqi factions entertained the idea of expanding the conflict in wake of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation in Gaza and opening of the “support front” in Lebanon. However, internal advice and external warnings steered Iraq clear of sliding into the turmoil. The Israeli threats against some of the factions were blunt, and the US needed to step in to prevent it from acting on them. Baghdad succeeded in avoiding another trap.
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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Amir Taheri
(May 25, 2025 / Gatestone Institute)If you’re under pressure to do something, but can’t do anything, what do you do? Well, you do nothing but to appear to be doing something. You invoke grand principles and grand sentiments. This is what French President Emmanuel Macron and his foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, have been doing in a rather quixotic way with regard to the ongoing tragedy in the Gaza Strip.
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1 week ago | 
gatestoneinstitute.org | Amir Taheri
If you are under pressure to do something but know that you can't do anything, what do you do? Well, you do nothing but to appear to be doing something. You invoke grand principles and grand sentiments. This is what French President Emmanuel Macron and his Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot have been doing in a rather quixotic way with regard to the ongoing tragedy in the Gaza Strip.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Mohammed al-Rumaihi |Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Last week, global and regional media outlets focused on President Donald Trump’s visit to Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi. Some of the piles of analysis we saw were objective and fact-based; others were fanciful and prejudiced. Some theories have now been shown to be misguided. One is the theory that the United States has pivoted to China and South Asia, abandoning the Middle East.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Fayez Sara
It has become common knowledge that Benjamin Netanyahu did not hesitate to mobilize the far right, in both its nationalist and religious wings, in a campaign against the Oslo Accords and Yitzhak Rabin. The latter was portrayed wearing the uniform of a Nazi officer in an infamous poster by this campaign that eventually led to Rabin’s assassination in 1995.
