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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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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the Trump administration’s decision to help Israel destroy the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program.
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CAIR Supports Iran Over Peace in Middle East
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June 30, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
An Israel Defense Forces soldier in Gaza.
Middle East Forum Online
With Stunning Campaign in Iran over for Now, Israel Turns Back to Gaza Slog
The IDF Ran Circles Around Hezbollah and Seriously Damaged Iran 1,000 Miles Away; Why the Struggle Against a Far Weaker Hamas?
June 30, 2025
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Lazar Berman
It was under the leadership of the late Qassem Soleimani, from 1998, that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force turned revolutionary and proxy warfare into a key tool of power projection for Tehran. Above: Soleimani’s funeral after he was killed by an American drone strike; Tehran, Jan. 7, 2020.
Middle East Forum Online
The Limits of Iran’s Proxy Strategy: How Soleimani’s Vision Failed in Recent Conflicts
The Flaw in Soleimani’s Plan Seems to Be That He Assumed That Religious and Ideological Loyalties Would Win Out over Local Self-Interest
June 30, 2025
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Jonathan Spyer
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