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ISIS: AMBITIONS AND CONSTRAINS
Since its inception, news of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/Daesh) has splashed across the world’s media. The nascent entity emerged suddenly and expanded quickly. Its brutality has commanded widespread attention and generated
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THE MIDDLE EAST: RISING AND FALLING STARS
In 2011, Turkey was seen as an unstoppable regional power and a rising star led by its Justice and Development Party (AKP). But the arrival of the Arab Spring heralded a deep change in
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HAMAS DIPLOMATIC ACTIVISM: MODIFIED STRATEGIES AND NEW ALLIANCES
Many observers saw in Tony Blair’s meeting with head of Hamas’ political bureau Khaled Meshal a breakthrough that may take Hamas out of the bottleneck and may lead to a long-term truce between the
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THE ARAB SPRING AND THE RISE OF NON-STATE ACTORS
It the past four years, Arabs have been living in endless Sisyphean ordeal, an unexpected nightmare after rising for what they called “the Arab Spring”. A very similar scenario was cloned in most of
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ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT: WILL GUNS FALL SILENT?
Israeli military is halting its operations in Gaza. According to Tel-Aviv, all the ”Hamas”-built underground tunnels had been destroyed. Army commanders are saying that troops are being out to the outskirts of Gaza and
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ISRAEL’S ‘PROTECTIVE EDGE’: WHY NOW?
A new Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, not the first and won’t be the last if the political equation in that region does not change. Throughout the previous aggressions Israel launched on the
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NUCLEAR PROGRAM OF IRAN
Ever since the initiation of nuclear research studies in Iran, this issue has been widely discussed. From its commencement by the assistance of US and Western states’ in late 1960s until 1979 Islamic Revolution,
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS A RESET
Turkey’s current situation proves that the AKP’s foreign policy approach has roundly failed. When they rose to power in 2002, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a
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A PLEA FOR TRANSITIONAL AL-ASSAD RULE
The term “Arab Spring” refers to the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests that took place in Arab region during 2011 and 2012. After peaceful transitions in Tunisia and Egypt, Arab Spring’s third station
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IS ISRAEL GOING REALLY TO ATTACK IRAN?
As we are approaching spring, it reminds us of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu theatrical gesture at the United Nations General Assembly last September, while holding up a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb with a fuse
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