For Hamas, war in Gaza is a step towards the West Bank
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/for-hamas-war-in-gaza-is-a-step-towards-the-west-bank#full As Hamas’s conflict with Israel continues to play out despite failed ceasefires and mounting,...
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Why is no one acting against ISIS?
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/558898-why-is-no-one-acting-against-isis The apathetic regional and international response to ISIS is mysterious and alarming The rise of the Islamic...
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What Does Hamas Do Now?
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/what-hamas-does-now/375758/?single_page=true In its war with Israel, the Palestinian group has accomplished none of its aims. Palestinian...
View ArticleISIS and its Success Narrative Must be Broken
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/islamic-state-must-be-beaten-before-it-gets-too-powerful#full Barack Obama’s decision to order limited air strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Iraq...
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Baghdadi Denial Syndrome
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/560119-baghdadi-denial-syndrome The IS should provoke profound introspection in the Sunni Arab world. Instead, various forms of Baghdadi Denial Syndrome...
View ArticleDoes the Islamic State pass the test of statehood?
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/does-the-islamic-state-pass-the-test-of-statehood#full The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) recently renamed itself merely the Islamic State and...
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Turning point against the Islamic State?
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/560765-turning-point-against-the-islamic-state Arab states should have a vested interest in following through to the demise of the most fanatical and...
View ArticleIndispensable but Elusive: Palestinian National Reunification
http://mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/indispensible-elusive-palestinian-national-reunification With the latest round of Israel-Hamas hostilities giving way to a tense truce and cease-fire...
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America is waging war in the Middle East once more
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/america-is-waging-war-in-the-middle-east-once-more#full The Islamic State is, US administration officials now admit, a terrorist threat on a magnitude not seen...
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Attacking the Islamic State IS attacking Assad
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/561536-attacking-the-islamic-state-is-attacking-assad The Assad dictatorship has worked hard to create a binary between itself and extremists. The...
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Palestinians Must Redefine Martyrdom for Nonviolent Resistance
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/non-violent-resistance-is-palestines-most-powerful-weapon#full Palestinian women look at the shattered remains of a building complex that was destroyed by Israel this...
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Child abuse, ISIS-style
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/562352-child-abuse-is-style The IS is trying to indoctrinate a loyal citizenry for its new “caliphate” One of the many striking differences between the...
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The MB is on a continuum with ISIS, not a corrective to it
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/the-brotherhood-is-a-version-of-isil-not-a-solution-to-it Supporters of Hamas gather during a rally in Gaza (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS) Opportunism, prejudices and...
View ArticleBattle Ground: A look at the tangled political history of modern Gaza
http://bookforum.com/inprint/021_03/13649 As this review was going to press, the latest bout of hostilities between Hamas and other Gaza-based militants and Israel had become even more bloody and...
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ISIS has sealed its own fate
By its recklessness and miscalculations, ISIS has created a huge coalition against itself At last the essential building blocks of a coalition against the ultra-violent criminal conspiracy that used...
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This region can’t afford to be tepid in its response to ISIL
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/this-region-cant-afford-to-be-tepid-in-its-response-to-isil The US secretary of state John Kerry, centre, with Joseph W Westphal, the US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Mr...
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Implausible as it sounds, ISIL has plundered Mao’s playbook
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/implausible-as-it-sounds-isil-has-plundered-maos-playbook There is a great deal in common between Mao’s revolutionary strategies and Abu Bakr Naji’s concept of “the...
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Abbas’ Conundrum is Also an American Problem
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/abbas-claims-the-initiative-and-forces-the-us-to-step-up#full Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 26. Richard...
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US has a responsibility to rein in Israeli settlements
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/us-has-a-responsibility-to-rein-in-israeli-settlements A staircase leading down a slope where several old caravans stand on the area of East Jerusalem called...
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Hisham, Hope and Despair
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/564209-hisham-hope-and-despair Hisham Melhem is correct about the collapse of “Arab civilization,” but hope remains On 18 September, Hisham Melhem – the...
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