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Syria’s New Rulers Are on the Terrorism List. Should They Stay There?
Probably, for now.
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Kyle Orton
Syria Enters Uncharted Territory, But The Core Truth of the Conflict Remains
There is no peace or stability while Bashar al-Assad is in office.
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Kyle Orton
Journalists Being Partisan Advocates in Foreign Wars is Nothing New
Looking back at the war in Bosnia in the 1990s.
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Kyle Orton
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Israel’s War in Lebanon This Time Is Not Like the Others
It is much better prepared and planned.
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Kyle Orton
Nobody Knows the Number of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza
And We Should Judge Harshly Those Who Pretend Otherwise
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Kyle Orton
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Russian Imperialism Under the Old Regime
It is not like Soviet imperialism.
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Kyle Orton
The Decline of Popular Historical Knowledge
Sometimes it already has got worse.
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Kyle Orton
HAMAS Ceases All Pretence About What It Is And What it Wants
The meaning of Yahya Sinwar’s appointment to lead the “Political Bureau”.
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Kyle Orton
The Eternal Quest To Blame Crime on Anyone But Criminals
Book Review: ‘The Knife Went In’ (2018), by Theodore Dalrymple
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Kyle Orton
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Conspiracy Theories About Israel Do Not Come From the Fringes
The people we are supposed to be able to trust are the problem.
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Kyle Orton
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The Soviet Union Won the Second World War
Book Review: Sean McMeekin’s “Stalin’s War”
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Kyle Orton
The Dangerous Fantasy of “International Law”
And why it is a particular problem for Jews.
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Kyle Orton
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