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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Jasim Al-Azzawi

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Trump’s diversion: Why Venezuela’s oil is the ultimate

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The winter of their discontent: When a theocracy freezes

friday 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The Price of War

01.01.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The Quad’s paper tiger problem: Why the Indo-Pacific strategy is faltering

The Quad’s paper tiger problem: Why the Indo-Pacific strategy is faltering
30.12.2025 40

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Mr Trump, Gaza does not need your ballroom. It needs tents. It needs life.

Mr Trump, Gaza does not need your ballroom. It needs tents. It needs life.
29.12.2025 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Egypt’s economy: When infrastructure outpaces production

Egypt’s economy: When infrastructure outpaces production
27.12.2025 40

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Follow the money: A ruthless guide for Mark Savaya, America’s envoy to Iraq

Follow the money: A ruthless guide for Mark Savaya, America’s envoy to Iraq
26.12.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Türkiye’s expanding footprint in Lebanon: Ambition, constraint, and the new sunni landscape

Türkiye’s expanding footprint in Lebanon: Ambition, constraint, and the new sunni landscape
25.12.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

MAGA implodes: Will Israel’s power over Washington collapse next?

24.12.2025 80

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Iraq’s three vulnerable pillars: A blueprint for dysfunction

22.12.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

America’s double game with international justice: When power poses as principle

21.12.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Europe’s high-stakes gamble

20.12.2025 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The unmasking of an illusion: Britain’s reckoning and America’s last stand

The unmasking of an illusion: Britain’s reckoning and America’s last stand
19.12.2025 30

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East fault lines now run through American tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East fault lines now run through American tech
17.12.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Netanyahu: I am the law, and Israel is Über alles. When leaders treat accountability as optional

Netanyahu: I am the law, and Israel is Über alles. When leaders treat accountability as optional
16.12.2025 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Iran’s shadow diplomacy: The art of winning without showing

Iran’s shadow diplomacy: The art of winning without showing
15.12.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

No room for toxic Blair on Gaza peace council

13.12.2025 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab

11.12.2025 60

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A letter from an Arab nationalist to Netanyahu

11.12.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The Abraham Accords gambit: Washington’s high-stakes balancing act in the Middle East

06.12.2025 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The war no one declares: Inside the Mossad–Iran shadow conflict

03.12.2025 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Trump tried to corner MBS. He blinked first

02.12.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The puppeteer’s paradox: In the US–Israel relationship who is the master and who is the slave?

01.12.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

America at the edge: Lessons from Rome, warnings from history

30.11.2025 70

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The vanishing future of the Arab world: climate, corruption, and the AI divide

28.11.2025 70

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The ruptured mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli narrative

27.11.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Thank you, Netanyahu, for stripping Zionism of its lies and revealing Israel’s odious nature

26.11.2025 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The tyranny of geography: Ukraine’s fatal gamble

25.11.2025 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Iraq’s tightrope walk sharpens between American security and Iranian influence

24.11.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Zohran Mamdani: The mayor who could redefine American politics

23.11.2025 50

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Cheney, Bush, and the crime against Iraq

22.11.2025 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Mr tough guy and the two farcical ceasefires

21.11.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Holier than thou, now hollow: Hezbollah, Israel, and Tom Barrack’s ignominious fall

16.11.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Europe’s hollow diplomacy: The illusion of accountability in Its dealings with Israel

14.11.2025 30

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The tragedy of premature reckoning: Hamas and the curse of peaking too soon

13.11.2025 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The improbable statesman: Al-Sharaa’s White House gambit and the future of Syria’s sovereignty

10.11.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Two narcissists, two scorpions in a bottle: When one cracks, the other shatters the illusion in a verbal blitz

03.11.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The Epstein file claimed its first grand victim: Prince Andrew fell. Who’s next — Trump?

01.11.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Fighting in the dark: How intelligence penetration forced Iran’s hand

30.10.2025 30

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President Trump, say goodbye to your dream of winning the Nobel Peace Prize

25.10.2025 20

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Hizballah’s last stand: Disarmament, defiance, and Tehran’s shadow over Lebanon

23.10.2025 10

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The Kurds and the tyranny of geography

21.10.2025 20

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The triad of war crimes, BDS, and global condemnation haunting Israel’s future

19.10.2025 30

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Hello Britain, are you happy now with the misery you inflicted on the Palestinians?

17.10.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Swiss cheese diplomacy: Trump’s hollow peace parade in Jerusalem

14.10.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Hail to the chief: Trump lands in Egypt to reap the glory, rescue Netanyahu, and rewrite the ending of the Gaza story

13.10.2025 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The delusional ceasefire and the inevitable resumption of fighting

11.10.2025 40

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Iraq at the crossroads: A vote for change or history repeated?

10.10.2025 30

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The price was high, the return is priceless: How the war on Gaza unmasked Israel

08.10.2025 10

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

A US general, British PM, Netanyahu, and the paradox of war crimes

05.10.2025 20

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