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    <title>David Wurmser</title>
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    <description>David Wurmser, Ph.D., an American foreign-policy specialist, is a fellow with the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, and a senior analyst for Middle East Affairs at the Center for Security Policy. He served as Middle East adviser to former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.</description>
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      <title>The path to the mullahs' ‘unconditional surrender’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Iranian ayatollahs are the modern-day Circumcellions whose time is up.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:53:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Let Israel start, and let the Iranians win</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Strategy in the Middle East emanates not from Western concepts or culture, but from a mastery of manipulation, even irrespective of balance of power.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reflections on the outlandish: Navigating the strategic earthquake in the fertile crescent</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is strategically wise to consider now how one handles the disintegration of Syria.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 13:00:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Assessment of Israel’s ‘Operation Days of Repentance’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Do the negatives of the strike on Iran outweigh the positives?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:39:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran now faces a Hobson's choice</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The impotence of a regime whose sole currency is based on a reign of terror is being exposed.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why the White House turned on Israel</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The rift is all about the U.S. State Department’s desire to reassert control.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 01:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel needs a Doolittle Raid</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Yair Ansbacher]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Israel may possess tactical superiority in every theater, but it lacks strategic initiative and control in all of them. Iran is still driving everything.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 07:09:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Despite invite, Biden and Netanyahu on collision course</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why now? Among other things, the U.S. administration is losing its domestic footing on Iran.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:47:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Iranian protesters have a secret weapon</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The cult of martyrdom and death fostered by the ayatollahs has backfired, and may well destroy them.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:10:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Situation Report: Joe Biden’s Middle East trip</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[While virtually no one was pleased by the outcome of the president’s trip, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE came away the biggest losers.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 05:54:01 GMT</pubDate>
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