Israel

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Lindsey Graham Was Not A Patriot

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, goes the adage of the ancient Romans that every schoolboy knows. Regrettably, in the case of the recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham finding laudatory words is a nearly impossible task. George Galloway was on point in calling Graham “a perfectly revolting specimen, and a poor excuse for a human […]

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Deferring A Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks

Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated. Destruction to infrastructure, and death, follows. Yet despite the misunderstandings, the sniping and the harrying, these odd understandings are often described by those funny political coves as “holding”. In the case […]

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Vance Faces Pushback From Pro-Israel Conservatives, But Retains Strong Support Among Evangelicals

Vice President JD Vance is encountering growing resistance from some of the Republican Party’s most influential pro-Israel voices following his central role in negotiating an end to the recent conflict with Iran. Yet despite criticism from conservative commentators and foreign policy hawks, many evangelical voters – one of the GOP’s […]

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The US-Iran Deal Is Now Dead

On June 29th, the Times of Israel headlined “Hezbollah-allied Lebanese parliament speaker says deal with Israel ‘will not pass’”, and this is like if John Thune the Senate Majority Leader were to announce that a treaty which had been negotiated by the U.S., President would not pass in the U.S. Congress (specifically in […]

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Iran’s Strategic Calculations Could Determine The Future Of Ceasefire Diplomacy

The latest escalation between Iran and Israel has pushed the Middle East into another period of dangerous uncertainty, raising a critical question for regional observers and international diplomats alike: can negotiations survive when military confrontation appears to offer some factions greater leverage than diplomacy? Recent developments suggest that the answer […]

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Bürgenstock U.S.-Iran Negotiations Seem Heading To Failure

On Sunday, June 21st, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, met in Bürgenstock at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, with Iran’s delegation, headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to finalize the U.S.-Iran 14-point peace deal that was signed on Wednesday, June […]