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      <title>Hezbollah’s soul-searching reveals its defeat</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[While it is too early to eulogize Hezbollah, it seems that Lebanese President-elect Joseph Aoun’s ambitions to implement “one army for one state” and, by implication, disarming Hezbollah send a strong signal about the group’s future.]]></description>
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      <title>Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid: A shepherd without a flock</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lapid’s unilateral approach to foreign policy could have profound consequences. That Israel's prime minister seems to have nothing to say on this matter is unsettling.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Warning signs out of the ‘Anyone but Bibi’ camp</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[We have never before seen Israel’s political parties make hatred for one politician the focus of their campaigns. In the dangerous game these politicians are playing with Israel’s future, the ends justify the means.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 07:26:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The emerging US standpoint on moderate Arab states</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The projected return of “politically correct” values to the center of U.S. foreign policy, in addition to President-elect Joe Biden’s commitment to return to the JCPOA, are the stuff of nightmares for Cairo and Riyadh.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:14:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The renewed Western Sahara conflict and the Abraham Accords</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The timing of the Polisario Front’s unanticipated provocation against Morocco may be related to the ongoing U.S.-sponsored diplomatic initiative on an Israel-Morocco normalization agreement.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:18:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>France’s showdown with the Islamic world</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty marks the start of what might turn out to be all-out war between France and the Islamic world with Turkey’s Erdoğan leading the Muslim charge.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 08:03:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Despite everything, another Israeli lockdown</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There’s no escaping the impression that many critics aim for a general breakdown as a means of removing the prime minister from office.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:01:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The IDF’s flight from South Lebanon: The intelligence dimension</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The current threat to Israel posed by Hezbollah is the outcome of the hasty Israeli withdrawal from the security zone in South Lebanon in May 2000.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 09:04:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What’s in a name? The Israeli-Palestinian case</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Did the Jewish state commit a historic misjudgment by selecting the name “Israel”?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2020 09:42:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Jordan Valley dilemma: A realistic approach</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The dark prophecies by “liberal” Israelis and E.U. officials about Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank are exaggerated and obscure the strategic value of the Jordan Valley for Israel’s security.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 13:27:27 GMT</pubDate>
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