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Mordechai Kedar, a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, is an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.

The explosion of mass violence by Israeli Arabs against their fellow Jewish citizens is nothing short of a religious war.
The 10 years of the uprisings sparked in 2010 have brought many Arab countries to the edge of the abyss. The worst may be yet to come if the Biden administration takes expected steps in the interests of of Iran.
Israel must begin preparing itself for the incoming U.S. administration, rather than exploiting the remaining months of Trump’s presidency to work towards goals that will alienate it.
Any distance Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has placed between himself and ISIS is attributable to pressure from Russia, the United States and Europe, not to his rejection of the group’s Islamist ideology.
The Beirut port disaster dealt the terror group a blow, but its ability to shift its arms and narcotics-smuggling operations to other locations will enable it to maintain its grip on the country.
COVID-19 has exposed Arab and Islamic notions of fraternity, mutual commitment and solidarity as hollow slogans.
The genie is out of the bottle in Lebanon, and it isn’t clear whether it’ll ever go back in. One thing’s for certain, though: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is sweating bullets.
Amman had no right to summon Israel’s ambassador to Jordan over supposed “violations” on the Temple Mount.
From the Muslim SS division to the murderous “Farhud” pogrom in Baghdad and the wretched concentration camps of North Africa, we must never forget.
It has failed because it is caught between two irreconcilable principles: establishing a modern, functioning state that provides for its citizens while at the same time maintaining a perpetual state of war against the Jewish state.