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TRUMP’S FINAL GIFT? Israel’s Massive Strike On Syria’s Iraqi Border Came With US Help

January 13, 2021

Iran Watch, Israel, Middle East, Regional Analysis, War Drums

With days to go until the Biden administration officially takes over at the White House, Israel launched another air attack on Iranian forces in Syria. While an attack on Syria by the IAF has become standard ...

CHAOS CONTINUES: Both Iran and US Lose Iraq

Micha Gefen

May 15, 2018

Politics, Regional Analysis

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While the dust still settles in Iraq's parliamentary elections, it has become clear that they have chosen Muqtada al-Sadr's list. Muqtada al-Sadr is the Shiite cleric whose Shiite militia fought against US tro...

Will Iraqi Election Results Upend President Trump’s Great Iranian Pushback?

Micha Gefen

May 13, 2018

Politics

With polls already closed in Iraq, the USA, Israel, and the Gulf countries sit and await to see if Iran can pull victory from a week of continual political and military defeats. If the Iranian backed candidate ...

Trump Administration Begins to Cut Off Iraq

Orit ben Tzvi

January 29, 2018

Politics

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The Obama administration's policy of simply turning a blind eye on Iraq's willingness to work with Iran while using American equipment seems to be on its way out under the Trump administration. According to ...

Trump Administration Puts Weight Behind Kurdistan as an Official Policy

Micha Gefen

January 25, 2018

Borders, Politics

In my post titled, "COLD WAR RENEWED: Israel and Kurdish SDF are Now Trump’s Weapons Against Iran" that was published on January 15th I wrote the following: "President Trump, campaigning against direct US in...

US Holds Off on Support for Independent Kurdistan, While Israel Sticks By the Kurds

Micha Gefen

September 17, 2017

Borders, Politics

While Israel remains the only country in the world to openly call for an independent Kurdistan, the Trump Administration continues to publicly beg for the Iraqi Kurds to push-off their referendum for independen...

THE STATE DEPARTMENT’S STRANGE OBSESSION

Caroline Glick

September 12, 2017

Politics, United States

The decision to follow through with sending Iraqi Jewish archives back to Iraq is part of a disturbing pattern. The law of Occam’s Razor, refined to common parlance, is that the simplest explanation is usually...

TRUMP SHOULD BLOCK OBAMA MOVE TO SEND STOLEN JEWISH RELIGIOUS ARTIFACTS TO IRAQ

Daniel Greenfield

September 11, 2017

Politics

The Point has been covering this story for a while. This goes back to 2013. Iraq in the 40s had 350,000 Jews. Today it has somewhere between four and none. Despite that the Obama administration plans to sen...

THE STRATEGIC CASE FOR KURDISTAN

Caroline Glick

September 2, 2017

Partnerships, Politics, Regional Analysis

Why it may weaken US adversaries and strengthen our allies. If the leaders of Iraqi Kurdistan aren’t intimidated into standing down, on September 25, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan will go to the polls to v...

Baghdad Threatens Force to Keep Kurdistan in Iraq

Micha Gefen

July 25, 2017

Borders, Frontlines

As the Kurdistan Regional Government's September 25th referendum on independence fast approaches, Baghdad has begun to warn the KRG that it is willing to us force to keep Iraq unified. Iraqi Defense Minister...

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