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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
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Coalition Forces fire 120mm illumination rounds using an XM905 Advanced Mortar Protection System from a fire base in the al-Shadaddi region in Syria on February 14, 2023. (Nicholas J. De La Pena via DVIDS)
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The Gaza Strip in southern Israel shows smoke plumes billowing during Israeli bombardment on October 31, 2023. (Menahem Kahama/AFP via Getty Images)
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An Israeli armored vehicle near the Gaza border in Sderot, Israel, on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Members of the Australian Jewish community participate in a gathering called 'Balloons of Hope', which represents Israeli hostages who are currently being held by the Palestinian group Hamas, in Sydney, on October 27, 2023. (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)
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Coptic cave church in Egypt. (Amy Nelson via Getty Images)
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Pro-Palestine protest in Philadelphia on October 21, 2023. (Joe Piette via flickr)
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A man praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. (Jake Warga via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Department of State via Flickr)
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An AFPTV cameraman films while smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
