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Items by Peter Rodgers
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A peace that carries the scent of accepting reality
In international politics, the most important transformations do not always occur in the text of agreements. Sometimes the real transformation lies in the words that suddenly disappear; in red lines that gradually fade; and in silences that carry more meaning than any statement. The possible agreement between Tehran and Washington…
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Why the United States should pursue a long-term agreement and security partnership with Iran
Look, the Middle East keeps being this expensive, messy headache for American foreign policy. It’s unstable, it drains resources, and it keeps dragging us into stuff that doesn’t really serve our big-picture interests. So Washington has a pretty straightforward choice right now: keep leaning on those small, super-dependent Gulf monarchies,…
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The world on the brink of the stone age: When Trump’s threat goes beyond Iran
When Donald Trump declared in one of his threatening statements that he could, if necessary, “bring Iran back to the Stone Age,” many interpreted the remark merely as a military threat directed at a specific country. Yet the deeper meaning of this statement lies not in its military message but…
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The dangerous logic of false flags: How Israel could draw allies into a wider war
Over the past ten days, West Asia has been engulfed in a conflict whose consequences are already rippling far beyond the battlefields. After the United States and Israel launched a joint air assault on targets inside Iran, Tehran responded by declaring not only Israeli territory but also American military bases…
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Trump’s other endless war: How a strike on Iran betrays his central promise
In international politics, starting a war is often easier than ending one. History has repeatedly shown that great powers can pull the trigger with a political decision, yet the trajectory, scope, and ultimate outcome of a war rarely remain under the sole control of its initiator. The United States’ attack…
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When truth becomes treason: Israel’s crisis of conscience
Every system built on control eventually faces a reckoning. There comes a day when the power that once pointed outward—silencing critics, suppressing truth—turns inward, consuming those who still dare to feel. That moment rarely comes with explosions or revolts. It arrives quietly, through acts of conscience that refuse to be…
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A peace that never sees the light: Rethinking the mirage of peace in Palestine
In our world today, the term “peace” gets thrown around more than ever before—yet it feels like it’s lost a lot of its real weight. Leaders, big countries, and the news outlets keep talking about this “peace process,” but what we actually see on the ground is often just violence…
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Don’t forget Israel’s attack on Qatar
Israel’s recent attack on Qatar, a country long regarded as the United States’ closest ally in the Arab world, marks a turning point in Middle Eastern security dynamics. This event is more than a military operation; it is a layered message to the Arab world and beyond to the international…
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A rift in the Republican camp over support for Israel
A fracture long buried within America’s right wing has now surfaced: the neoconservatives, who since the 2000s have made unconditional support for Israel the cornerstone of their political identity, are facing off against the MAGA faction, which rose under the banner of “America First” and now asks why US interests…
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On the necessity of expelling Israel from the UN General Assembly
For decades, the United Nations has served as the most important institutional forum for settling inter-state disputes and safeguarding the two central pillars of the Charter: sovereign equality and the protection of civilians. When a member state systematically undermines these principles, the Charter itself prescribes a final remedy: expulsion, explicitly…
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Engineered starvation: Israel’s roadmap to the submission of Gaza
At the heart of one of the world’s most densely populated regions, a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Gaza; one not born of accident, but crafted through deliberate and calculated military strategy. Hunger, once seen as a tragic byproduct of war, has here been turned into a weapon; an instrument…
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How Netanyahu’s political survival depends on the genocide in Gaza
On 26 July, the Israeli daily Haaretz ran the headline: “Israel at War: Day 659. Gaza medical sources: At least 25 people killed by Israeli fire, some while waiting for aid.” This brief, grim headline represents a routine update on a catastrophe that has become normalised in global news: each…
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The geopolitics of occupation: Israel’s project to fragment the region and destroy collective security in the Middle East
As we approach the third decade of the 21st century, the Middle East is facing a deeper and more existential challenge than ever before: a silent yet deliberate project aimed at engineering the region’s geopolitics to establish Israel’s absolute hegemony. This project is not limited to the occupation of Gaza,…
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Does Europe have the legal standing to trigger dispute mechanisms against Iran?
Back in 2015, Iran struck a landmark deal with the P5+1 — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The agreement was crafted to put strict limits on Iran’s nuclear program in return for lifting crippling…
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The architects of instability: How Israel and the US ignited the Middle East nuclear crisis
Israel and the United States, through aggressive policies and exaggerated narratives, have created a threat in the Middle East that did not previously exist. Israel’s large-scale attacks on Iran in June 2025, known as Operation “Lion’s Rise,” along with the US’s implicit support of these actions, have pushed Iran toward…
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Gideon’s Chariots: Repeating a strategic and humanitarian disaster in Gaza
In March 2025, Israel launched a new large-scale military operation in Gaza, codenamed “Gideon’s Chariots”. This operation, one of the boldest and most controversial military actions by Israel in recent decades, was ostensibly designed to destroy Hamas and secure Israel’s southern border. Yet, far from achieving its objectives, it has…
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The Middle East in America’s arms diplomacy trap
The United States, as the world’s largest arms exporter, leverages its military-industrial complex to bolster its economy and expand geopolitical influence. In May 2025, this dependency was starkly revealed during former President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, where massive arms deals were signed with Saudi Arabia ($142 billion),…
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A Story of Retreat: America’s Military Failure in the Red Sea
In spring 2025, the Red Sea became a tense battleground between the United States and Yemen’s Houthis—a part of the so-called Resistance Axis who had intensified their attacks on international shipping. U.S. President Donald Trump, vowing to restore deterrence and secure freedom of navigation, launched a large-scale military operation titled…
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A new approach to normalising relations with Iran provides a chance for geopolitical stability and regional security
In today’s rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape and strategic rivalries at the regional level, concerns surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme and the challenges posed by pressure-driven and isolationist policies have remained central to international discourse. While some argue that negotiating with Iran equates to legitimising its nuclear ambitions and enrichment activities, deeper…
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Tehran and Washington as natural allies in an artificial order
One of the paradoxes of contemporary history is that political shifts in the United States—particularly during the Trump era—unexpectedly brought certain elements of US policymaking closer to the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a post-Cold War world order shaped by neoliberalism and globalisation, two political movements—the Trumpist…
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The ‘Arab NATO’ is a US security trap for Gulf countries
The “Arab NATO” initiative, which has been discussed increasingly in diplomatic circles in recent years, has once again become a hot topic in the relationships between Arab countries and the United States. Washington and Tel Aviv insist that this plan can guarantee the security of Arab nations, but can their…