Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

Coverage and analysis of the Middle East from Washington, DC. We also have a bookstore: @MiddleEastBooks

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"In Gaza, where much of the world sees only rubble and ruin, some walls still speak. Through murals painted on bombed-out buildings, crumbling school walls, and U.N. shelters, Palestinians are telling stories that refuse to be silenced."

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"Canadians are publicly criticizing Edmonton’s Police Chief Warren Driechel for a professional trip he made to Israel in February 2026."

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"A disagreement over a local endorsement in Maryland has opened a broader rift inside Our Revolution over the meaning of grassroots power and the Palestine exception in local politics."

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"After decades in which residents freely displayed signs on every imaginable issue, it was shocking to find that people I had long considered neighbors and friends were now attempting to silence me."

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"The odds are against anyone who meets the needs of the world. Their very qualifications would be unlikely to survive the whims and prejudices of this U.S. administration, let alone survive scrutiny by Moscow or Beijing."

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"How has the U.S.—a nation born in opposition to empire—come to be seen by many as embodying it?"

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"India has become one of Israel’s largest arms customers—billions of dollars in weapons, drones and cyber tools."

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"These Israeli technologies allow law enforcement unprecedented access to an individual’s life and information, offering the equivalent of a digital stop and frisk.”

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“We are a warning. We are a laboratory. It’s like cancer, and if it’s ignored, it’s going to take over if we don’t address it now.”

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“Since October 7, any idea of restraint or accountability has completely disappeared.”

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"The law will be applied in military courts, which is where Palestinians but not Israeli Jews are tried. In these courts, the conviction rate for Palestinians is 96 percent."

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"As mass atrocities in Gaza are livestreamed around the world, healthcare workers have emerged as some of the most credible moral voices calling for accountability and protection of life."

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"My mother has a medical referral for treatment abroad, but no one can tell us when the Rafah border crossing into Egypt will open."

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From @WRMEA : "Therese Soukar Chehade's elegant prose captures the precious beauty of Beirut amid rising political unrest... [a] masterpiece...As I turned the last page, I wished it would go on." https://t.co/ltv2CxO3Zh

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"Famine has taken over our daily lives."

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"There are books and dissertations written by scholars about Christian Zionism. It is theologically incorrect and even heresy."

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"Too many children, women and men have been killed by these machines, victims of an occupation that knows no red lines."

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"In Jerusalem, a Christian Zionist claimed I was ‘demon possessed’ because I did not support Israel’s assault on Gaza in 2009."

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"Ghassan Kanafani's 'Selected Political Writings' is an engaging study which draws together a wide range of his writings on politics, national liberation and the Palestinian struggle."

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