The Moderate Palestinian Leader’s Lies

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Mahmoud Abbas’ scathing speech was mostly a gift to the Israeli rightists who wants one big state; the Palestinian president is making it clear that he’s not a partner, that he refuses to recognize the Jews’ right to self-determination and that he is trapped in hallucinations, illusions, and lies.

Abbas Insists Trump Chooses: Peace or War

In a speech on Wednesday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas issued an ultimatum to US President Donald Trump, saying he must choose between peace or war.

Turkey, the Arab World is Just Not That into You

Burak Bekdil

He runs around in a fake fire extinguisher’s outfit, holding a silly hose in his hands and knocking on neighbors’ doors to put out the fire in their homes. “Go away,” his neighbors keep telling him.

Another Family Stink

Ira Sharkansky

This item is adding to the charges that Bibi has worked to provide his cronies with access to controversial government decisions.

Wanted: A Counter-Iran Strategy

Jonathan_Spyer

A common but mistaken reading of the current strategic situation in the Middle East presents the region as approaching the end of a period of instability. The “return of the Arab state” is one of the more arresting refrains that this perspective has produced.

Why Deportation of Asylum Seekers is Unnecessary

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According to serious reports and European court rulings from recent years, Eritreans returning to their country are no longer in danger of being tortured; now that the situation has changed, there’s no need to deport them—there’s a need to return them.

Iran: An Interim Assessment

Jonathan_Spyer

The protests in Iran appear, for now at least, to be subsiding. The key moment was the decision to task the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with security in the three provinces that formed the center of the unrest – Hamadan, Isfahan and Lorestan.