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AMMAN, JORDAN - NOVEMBER 15: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "ROYAL HASHEMITE COURT / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Jordanian King Abdullah II makes a speech at the parliament building during the inauguration of the new term of the Jordanian Parliament, in Amman, Jordan on November 15, 2021. In his speech, the king gave a message of support to the Palestinians. (Photo by Royal Hashemite Court / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Jordan: Analyzing the 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

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Saudi Arabia Is Now Using Diplomacy, Like Sports, to Whitewash Its Image

GAZA CITY, GAZA - APRIL 02: A view of Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on April 02, 2025. Palestinians in Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza are struggling to survive their daily lives in makeshift tents among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks. (Photo by Saeed Mohammed/Anadolu via Getty Images)

DAWN Response to Senate Vote on Arms Sales to Israel

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Assad's Fall Threatens to Reignite Decades of Sectarian Strife in Northern Lebanon

In this aerial photograph, crowds gather to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad in Homs, late on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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Returning to Syria, and My City of Homs, After 14 Years of Exile

$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

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Saudi Arabia Is Now Using Diplomacy, Like Sports, to Whitewash Its Image

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The head of the Ennahdha movement, Rached Ghannouchi, appears before the first investigative judge of the judicial pole for combating terrorism, in order to interrogate him regarding a complaint that was filed against him by one of the security unions in Tunis, Tunisia on February 21, 2023 . (Photo by Yassine Mahjoub/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Tunisia: Release Rached Ghannouchi, Unjustly Imprisoned Political Leader

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Assad's Fall Threatens to Reignite Decades of Sectarian Strife in Northern Lebanon

A picture shows a general view of the Jordanian Parliament before a session aiming to set a date to discuss the Israeli-Jordanian US-brokered solar power for water "declaration of intent" which was signed in Dubai last month, on December 8, 2021. - The parliament session which aimed, among other topics, to set a date to discuss the US-brokered declaration of intent, was postponed till December 13. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Briefing Paper: Jordan's 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

Tag: Israel

People gather by the rubble of destroyed buildings for a mass gathering for a communal iftar fast-breaking meal on the second day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the area of al-Dahduh in Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa district on March 2, 2025 amid the ongoing truce in the war between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

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Ramadan in Gaza: Fasting Under Fire, Praying Among the Ruins

A man walks past shelter tents erected near collapsed buildings in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on October 1, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

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'My Fellow American': A Poem

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How Western Media Has Manufactured Consent for Atrocities, From Iraq to Gaza

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Harvard Shouldn't Whitewash War Crimes in Gaza by Hiring Brett McGurk

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A Palestinian inspects the damage to a home in the village of Mughayir near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 13, 2024, after an attack by Israeli settlers on the village. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

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The Rise and Demise of America's Only Sanctions on Israel

February 21, 2025

People walk past the rubble of collapsed buildings along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 20, 2025 a day after a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas went into effect. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

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Trump's Talk of a Gaza Takeover Masks a More Immediate Disaster

February 7, 2025

--PHOTO TAKEN DURING A CONTROLLED TOUR AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY-- This picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military on January 27, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers patrolling an area in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Nicolas GARCIA / AFP)

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Could Israel's 'Immoral Witnesses' in Gaza Unwittingly Help End the IDF's Impunity?

January 14, 2025

A visitor tours the Nuhad Es-Said Pavilion for Culture at the National Museum of Beirut on November 7, 2024. The pavilion has chosen to open its doors to the public and provide a an environment of hope for all those wishing to discover its space dedicated to art and culture, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah group. (Photo by Anwar AMRO / AFP)

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In Lebanon, Art and Culture Respond to Another Moment of Intense Upheaval

December 27, 2024

Israeli military vehicles cross the fence to the buffer zone witrh Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

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What the Collapse of the Assad Regime Means for Israel

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What Trump's Return Means for the Middle East: A Democracy in Exile Roundtable

November 14, 2024

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