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    <description>Ayoob Kara is an Israeli Druze politician. He has served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in four terms between 1999 and 2021, and as Israeli Minister of Communications.</description>
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      <title>Honoring repressed languages in Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To study and work in one’s mother tongue is a basic human right that Israel’s Druze community and other ethnic minorities in the Jewish state enjoy.]]></description>
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      <title>How America should respond to human-rights abuses in Armenia</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It must rest on three pillars: principled diplomacy, conditional engagement and sustained international monitoring.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:15:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to Israel and Europe</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The question is no longer whether the organization is dangerous. The question is whether free societies will find the courage to defend themselves.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Egypt’s hand in Sudan’s war only deepens a crisis</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is the same moral trade-off that has defined decades of Western policy in the Middle East: stability before justice, silence before truth.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How the US is redrawing the geopolitics of the South Caucasus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's TRIPP corridor would redirect energy and trade away from Iran and Russia, and institutionalize America's presence in the region.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Zangezur Corridor and the shifting geopolitics of the South Caucasus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Armenia stands to gain economically, but domestic opposition and threats from Russia must be weighed by the country’s prime minister.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A mission in the shadows: What is Iran’s ambassador doing in Armenia?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Following Israel’s war in Iran, the Islamic Republic is increasingly seeking to turn Armenia into a Persian proxy.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and normalization</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were to sign the Abraham Accords and deepen cooperation with the United States, they could gain an edge over other countries in the region.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The importance of diasporas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An alliance between the Jewish Diaspora and Azerbaijani diaspora in the United States can help Israel fight against anti-Israel sentiment.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:44:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hypocritical positions makes a laughingstock out of Emmanuel Macron</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the French, human rights seem nothing more than a battle cry to expand its own imperial interests.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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