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  • Hassan Rouhani: A Sheep or a Wolf?

    BY GABE DAVIS When Israeli Prime Minister Binya­min Netanyahu took the stage to address the most recent UN Gen­eral Assembly in New York, he was not a hap­py man. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s friendly media blitz had inspired optimism regarding a more moderate Iran, but Netan­yahu was intent on reminding us with whom exactly we…

  • Straightforward: The Simplicity of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    BY HENRY CLEMENTS The American media tend to portray the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as hugely complicated and mired in controversy.  The situation is deadlocked, we are told, and no one agrees on the components of a final settlement. In reality, beyond U.S. borders, there exists hardly any disagreement at all. Indeed, there is close to unanimous…