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Trump’s Gaza plan turns the Middle East on its head

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  By James M. Dorsey Substack columns like The Turbulent World are essential reading in a world of sharply diminished coverage of international affairs by mainstream media. The Turbulent World offers fact-based, in-depth, and hard-hitting reporting and analysis of the Middle East and the Muslim world as global power shifts and the region’s relationship with Asia emerges as a pillar of a new world order. Paid subscribers of The Turbulent World gain access to the column’s extensive archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall. The Turbulent World can only sustain and expand its independent coverage free of advertisements and clickbait with the support of its readers. So, please consider pledging your support by clicking here. To listen to the podcast or watch the video click here. US President Donald J. Trump’s plan to expel Palestinians ...

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu could decide the Gaza ceasefire’s fate

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  By James M. Dorsey Columns like The Turbulent World are essential   reading in a world of sharply diminished coverage of international affairs by mainstream media. The Turbulent World offers fact-based, in-depth, and hard-hitting reporting and analysis of the Middle East and the Muslim world as global power shifts and the region’s relationship with Asia emerges as a pillar of a new world order.   So, please consider pledging your support by clicking  here . To listen to the podcast or watch thevideo, please click here . Donald Trump’s Oval Office could be Binyamin Netanyahu’s brick wall. That is if the president uses Tuesday’s meeting with Mr. Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit Washington since Mr. Trump returned to office, to ensure a successful Israeli-Hamas negotiation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement’s second phase. For that, Messrs.  Netanyahu and Trump would have to agree on who will administer the devastated Strip when the guns permanently fall...

Trump’s Middle East plan may have legs

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  By James M. Dorsey  Columns like The Turbulent   World are essential reading in a world of sharply diminished coverage of international affairs by mainstream media. The Turbulent World offers fact-based, in-depth, and hard-hitting reporting and analysis of the Middle East and the Muslim world as global power shifts and the region’s relationship with Asia emerges as a pillar of a new world order.  Paid subscribers of The Turbulent World  gain access to the column’s extensive archive,   exclusive posts, and polling. They can   leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall.  The   Turbulent World can only sustain and expand its independent coverage free of advertisements and clickbait with the support of its readers.  So,   please consider pledging your support by clicking  here .  To listen to the podcast or watch the vi...

As Netanyahu flaunts his ties to the global far-right

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  By James M. Dorsey Hi and welcome, Thank you for joining me today.  If you appreciate hard-hitting, fact-based analysis, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription. Paid subscribers can access the full archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall. You can contribute by clicking here . To listen to the podcast or watch the video, please click here . Thank you for your support and loyalty, take care, and best wishes. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel’s ultra-nationalists and ultra-conservatives have turned Israel into a ‘haven’ for some Jews rather than all Jews. Not only by encouraging an intolerant, supremacist domestic environment hostile to vigorous public debate and equality for all but also by endorsing the far-right’s flirt with language and imagery that risks stoking ant-Semitism, and efforts to rewrite th...

Trump’s support for expelling Palestinians fans Middle Eastern fires

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  By James M. Dorsey Hi and welcome,  Thank you for joining me today.  If you appreciate hard-hitting, fact-based  analysis, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription.  Paid subscribers can access the full  archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall.  You can contribute by clicking  here. To listen to the podcast or watch the video, plese click  here. Thank you for your support and loyalty,  take care, and best wishes.  US President Donald J. Trump risks putting relations with Saudi Arabia and other US partners in the Middle East on a knife’s edge, sending the region into a tailspin, and complicating, if not undermining, negotiations to make the three-phase Gaza ceasefire permanent rather than temporary by   advocating  the removal to Egypt and Jordan of 1.5 milli...