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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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March 15, 2012
Israel
Ugly Israelis?
I rarely write about Israel. It’s important politically, but intellectually for me a bit of a bore. What more can be said about the country that has not already been said, especially the Arab-Israel…
July 19, 2013
Turkey
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Economy, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, and Greening the West Bank
Matt Phillips, writing for Quartz, provides some startling figures about Egypt’s economy following the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. Kadri Gursel examines the Islamization of Turkey’s fo…
December 7, 2017
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Palestinian Violence is Not Spontaneous
There were widespread "predictions" that President Trump's decision on Jerusalem would "lead to violence." I use the quotation marks because many of those "predictions" were actually threats. When so…
November 21, 2016
Middle East and North Africa
Fatah Fades Away
It is about one week before the Seventh General Congress of the Fatah party in Ramallah. 1,400 members will participate, but very few people outside Fatah care. As Avi Issacharoff writes in an excell…
January 1, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Confidence-destroying Measures
Working toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, negotiators always seek "confidence-building measures" or CBMs. These moves are supposed to show good faith and convince the other side to under…