Israel Shows Us the Future of Protest - The Atlantic
Rabin Square in Tel Aviv has always been a popular site for demonstration. Israelis gathered on this expansive plaza to protest the Gaza War in 2014 and to demand LGBT rights in...
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Global Pandemic: Could the Coronavirus Bring Peace to the Mideast? - Fox News Radio
The coronavirus pandemic has possibly opened the door for peace in the Middle East as many countries in conflict are turning their efforts to fight the virus back home. A ceasefire has held in...
Can COVID-19 open the door to peace-building in Syria? - The Hill
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads to the Middle East, it also may unlock an unforeseen opportunity for peace-building in Syria. To be sure, the window is narrow and the...
How the United States Can Cooperate While Competing With China - Lawfare
One of the most virulent attributes of the novel coronavirus has been the timing of its emergence. The pandemic, a quintessential transnational problem requiring coordinated global action...
Kim Jong-un theories mount as rumors swirl - Washington Times
When Kim Jong-un went conspicuously missing for a month back in 2014, North Korean state media finally put rumors about the young dictator’s status to bed by announcing he was...
What Kim Jong Un’s Health Rumors Teach Us About North Korea - UN Dispatch
Recent reports from the Korean Peninsula suggest that Kim Jong Un suffered a heart attack or some other serious medical calamity. Fueling these rumors is the fact that...
How China is ruthlessly exploiting the coronavirus pandemic it helped cause - Vox
The coronavirus pandemic that rages across the globe is a fire China helped light. And now, while Beijing grasps a fire hose with two hands, it’s also planting a boot on...
Afghanistan May Soon Have Peace. And the Cost Is Democracy. - The New Republic
On a sunny day last July, thick fumes poured into the sky over Shahid Square in central Kabul. Half a dozen gunmen stormed up a building into the office of Afghanistan’s...
Signs From North Korea Only Raise More Questions About Absent Kim Jong Un - U.S. News and World Report
North Korea this week provided halting signs that leader Kim Jong Un remains in power and control as sensational reports circulated unabated across the world claiming...
Congress looks at options to punish China over the coronavirus outbreak - Los Angeles Times
Republican lawmakers and other U.S. officials, determined to punish China for concealing early data on the coronavirus outbreak, are proposing numerous measures to turn...