By James M. Dorsey Launched 12 years ago, my column, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, offers, to borrow a phrase from an early proprietor
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Diplomats the world over blinked in disbelief on Tuesday, July 13 when the news broke that the previous evening Turkey’s president, Rece
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Joe Biden knows as much about the background to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as anyone, and more than most. Over the eight years 2008–2016 that th
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