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      <title>All quiet on the Lebanese front?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Contrary to media reports, there are no “major disputes” between Israel and Lebanon. The major disputes are between Israel and Hezbollah—and between Hezbollah and Lebanon.]]></description>
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      <title>The American military can clear mines, but not minds</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Though Tehran’s capabilities are being degraded, its theology persists.]]></description>
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      <title>Why the US has a TSA and a DHS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many refuse even to name the enemy, pretending that energy security is one issue, airport security another, the war in Gaza a third and the conflict with Tehran a fourth.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The surviving members of the regime have played what they believe to be their trump card: targeting the production of oil by their Arab neighbors and preventing the flow of oil shipments through a body of water with two-mile-wide navigable shipping lanes.]]></description>
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      <title>A battle to make America great again</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Yet a motley crew on the left and right are not happy about the idea that national decline is a choice the president firmly rejects.]]></description>
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      <title>The Greenland situation explained</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There were some fraught days when U.S. President Donald Trump was threatening to use a big stick to take the island away from the Danes, but the situation seems to have settled down.]]></description>
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      <title>Maduro’s last exit is to Brooklyn</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Do you think that being incarcerated in a city that has a socialist mayor is any consolation for him? Is he feeling the collectivist warmth?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump’s revised National Security Strategy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The good, the bad and the conspicuously absent.]]></description>
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      <title>Meet the Muslim Brotherhood ...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Working to re-establish the caliphate for almost a century.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>America’s fair-weather friends</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Germany, Britain and France make it harder to get a ceasefire in Gaza.]]></description>
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