Category: Middle East
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Turkey is surrounded by many actual or potential enemies – Syrian, Kurdish, Iranian, Russian – who see how easy it will be to exploit and exacerbate the country’s deep divisions
The Short Answer: Fight it!
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Fifty years on, the colonisation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is so entrenched that a two-state solution is nothing more than a pipe dream
It is more disturbing that many Jewish organizations are more focused on demonizing Palestinian rights advocacy rather than combating the antisemitism of white supremacists empowered by the Trump administration
More than 1,500 Palestinians held by Israel began a mass hunger strike on 17 April – Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
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Turkey is in essence moving from a British parliamentary system to a French presidential one
Not surprisingly, neocons are pressing for more
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After the Cork Conference on ‘International Law and the State of Israel’
The referendum in Turkey is about one thing: Erdoğan’s brazen bid for dictatorial power
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The alleged device for a sarin attack could not have been delivered from the air but only from the ground, meaning that the chemical attack may not have been the result of the Syrian airstrike