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To Assad and his admirers, Trump offers ‘hope and change’

January 23, 2017January 23, 2017 Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Donald Trump, Russia, Sam Bollier, Syria

Donald Trump has vowed to end US support for Syrian rebel groups, delighting backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Turkey’s long road to repression

December 12, 2016December 28, 2016 AKP, Barack Obama, Can Dundar, Cumhuriyet, Erdogan, George W. Bush, Gezi Park, Gulen, Hizmet, July 15 coup attempt, Simon Leser, Turkey

Erdoğan has revealed himself to be the Turkish embodiment of what we in Europe and the US can now appreciate up close: populist, far-right politics.

Ofra and Amona settlements

Israel’s controversial ‘settlement bill’: A conversation with Richard Falk

December 1, 2016 Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Israel, Knesset, Naftali Bennett, Oslo accords, Palestine, Richard Falk, Sam Bollier, settlements, West Bank

Embed from Getty Images Israeli riot police clashed with settlers living in the Amona “outpost” settlement in 2006 A

Operation Provide Comfort

Looking to Syria: No-fly zones and political stability in Iraq and Libya

November 5, 2016November 6, 2016 Barack Obama, Dylan Maguire, George H.W. Bush, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kuwait, Libya, NATO, no-fly zone, Operation Provide Comfort, Operation Unified Protector, Qadhafi, Syria, Turkey

This article appeared in JMEPP’s Spring 2016 print edition. The ongoing civil war in Syria has reignited interest in no-fly

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