🔺 Power, war and illusion
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince arrived last week in Washington with trillion-dollar promises and a manufactured aura of strength, only to play supporting actor in Trump’s desperate quest for a foreign-policy win.
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🔺Ahmad Kazemi emphasizes the importance of the visibility of religious minorities in public life, highlighting a recent example in Tehran where a metro station named St. Mary was inaugurated to honor minority rights.
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🔺 China’s faster growth challenges the US economy and threatens the dollar’s dominance.
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🔺Melina Nazarian highlights the adoption of the new Islamic penal code in 2013, establishing equal 'blood money' for Muslims and non-Muslim people of the Book, marking a significant advancement for minorities.
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🔺 According to Casey Gane-McCalla, US–China mistrust stems from America’s historical and current interventionism.
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🔺"The Levant is paying the price for European antisemitism"
Fra Hughes states that understanding Palestine’s history requires going back to the 1880s, when Zionism emerged in response to European antisemitism.
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🔺 Khaled Barakat emphasizes that Israeli settlers’ assaults on Palestinians are premeditated, carried out with army complicity, and justified using extremist religious texts.
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🔺 “What Gazans endured mirrors a colonial model”
According to Fra Hughes, what Gazans endured mirrors colonial tactics used by White European Anglo-Saxon settlers in North America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, yet the resilience of Gaza’s people stands out.
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🔺"Israelis are moving towards ethnic cleansing"
Khaled Barakat argues Israel now demands total Palestinian submission and is openly shifting toward ethnic cleansing backed by armed settler groups.
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🔺Dr. Mohamad Hasan Sweidan says Iraq faces two narratives: US security framing versus the people’s sovereign choice, and that Washington dismisses elections whenever results oppose its interests.
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🔺Ordinary people supported Gaza when leaders didn't
Sana Mohammad Hassn Abu Abdo, a Palestinian grandmother from Gaza, says that only ordinary people worldwide stand with Gaza while governments act as if Gaza’s existence does not matter.
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🔺Chief Rabbi of the Iranian Jewish community, Younes Hamami Lalehzar, explains that Iran’s constitution grants religious minorities full personal status rights and freedom of worship, with Jewish community institutions operating openly.
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🔺“I returned to Al-Bureij and found only destruction”
According to Sana Mohammad Hassn Abu Abdo, after being displaced and returning to Al-Bureij, the devastation in Gaza was so severe that people no longer knew where their houses once stood.
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🔺 Sana Mohammad Hassn Abu Abdo, a Palestinian grandmother from Gaza, describes how widows and orphans are left without shelter or support, struggling to survive amid mounting losses.
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🔺 Khaled Barakat explains that Israel seeks normalization with Saudi Arabia to secure US influence over the region’s resources.
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🔺Iran provides structured legal, cultural, and administrative support to religious minorities, enabling them to manage personal affairs, participate in public institutions, and freely maintain their cultural and religious activities.
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🔺 Mohamad Hasan Sweidan says that Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon hold considerable geopolitical weight in reshaping their roles in the new regional order.
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🔺"It was about challenging the siege"
Fra Hughes highlights that the Gaza-bound aid flotilla was a huge success as it brought attention to the plight of the Palestinian people and the injustices they endure.
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🔺 Mohamad Hasan Sweidan states that Iraq’s stance against normalization reflects a collective decision and that it plays a strategic role in reshaping the geopolitical order in the region.
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🔺“Israel was born in terrorism, and exists through terrorism"
According to Fra Hughes, Israel’s ongoing attacks and settler violence show a continued project of ethnic cleansing in Palestine and Lebanon.
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🔺“In Iran, Jews benefit from a kind of positive discrimination”
Chief Rabbi of the Iranian Jewish community Younes, states that Iran’s long-standing differentiation between Judaism and the Zionist project allows Jews to live without the expulsions seen elsewhere and grants them formal minority representation.
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🔺 'Iraq elections boost parliamentary opposition to US presence'
Dr. Mohamad Hasan Sweidan notes that a significant portion of Iraq’s parliament now represents voters opposed to the US presence, meaning Hashd al-Shaabi’s agenda to remove US forces will continue shaping Baghdad’s policies.
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🔺 The US chip ban backfired, setting off a domino effect as China ramped up domestic production, boosted quality and market share and undermined American companies' competitiveness.
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🔺Melina Nazarian, an attorney-at-law, notes that legal guarantees and social support allow religious minorities to operate openly and without discrimination in Iran.
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🔺Casey Gane-McCalla says Trump’s budget-cut idea failed because China distrusts the US due to its history of wars, CIA actions, and foreign interference.
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🔺"Israeli regime wants to keep the PA as a puppet"
Khaled Barakat says Israel keeps the Palestinian Authority as a compliant security tool while extremist ministers push for more settlements and tighter control over the West Bank.
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🔺Dr. Mohamad Hasan Sweidan says the US views Iraqi elections only through its own security lens, ignoring Iraq’s history, the role of al-Hashd in defeating ISIS, and the people’s rejection of the US-Israeli axis.
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🔺Ecaterina-Elena Matoi says the US-China competition is driven by big systemic differences, accelerating decoupling, and intensifying tech races that diplomacy cannot resolve.
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🔺 Iraq’s elections strengthened pro-Popular Mobilization Forces blocs, shifting power toward groups that could complicate US influence, cooperation, and regional normalization efforts with Israel.
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🔺 Ahmad Kazemi highlights that Iran’s constitution upholds key minority-rights principles like non-discrimination, public participation, and protection of religious and cultural rights.
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