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For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.
Jeremy Pressman
With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward.
Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana
In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.
M. Hakan Yavuz
As the Trump–Putin summit made clear, U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.
Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Umar Farooq
Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
The United States will lose the war for control of the Middle East.
Andrew J. Bacevich, Stephen Kinzer
Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.
Stephen Zunes
Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.
Paul Linden-Retek
Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.
For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.
Alisa Reznick
It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.
Aziz Z. Huq
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