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24 November 2025 In two articles, I attempt to understand not only what happened on October 7th, 2023, but also what followed: the subsequent wars in which Israel has been drawn into several fronts at once. My longstanding interest lies in institutional crisis, failure, and recovery, especially under the extreme
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23 November 2025 The novel begins instantly with the protagonist’s sudden, brutal arrest at his home by soldiers, marking the immediate descent into tragedy. Dragged blindfolded to the Sulaymaniyah intelligence “Black Site,” he endures isolation, severe heat torture, and harsh interrogation, made worse by the revelation that a captured
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By Khaled Salih 22 November 2025 Israeli’s Infinite Game visualised by NotebookLM Let me be unconventional The cover of a primer, Sālim in the Army, used to teach reading and writing to Syrian soldiers. It takes a truly Ba’athist level of neurological confusion to name your cartoon soldier
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By Khaled Salih 21 November 2025 HUSSEIN ABOUBAKR MANSOUR has named a genuine malady in our public talk: he shows how terms like “Nazi” and “genocide” undergo a “complete functional inversion” and become “liturgical triggers” that license cruelty rather than describe reality. He sketches the “Imago Nazi” and installs a
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By Khaled Salih Let us begin where the fever actually lies: not in a point‑scoring quarrel with “Orientalism,” but in the high‑voltage room where its foundational arguments are subjected to a battery of powerful analytical frameworks, and its gears and pulleys laid bare as the thing they are—
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By Khaled Salih The Crucible of an Unyielding Conflict In the turbulent history of the Holy Land, few periods are as consequential, yet as frequently overlooked, as the Arab revolt of 1936-1939. This seminal, three-year uprising was far more than a prelude to the 1948 war; it was
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By Khaled Salih The Suicidal Empathy: How “Islamophobia” Became the Racism That Protects a ReligionBy Khaled SalihKhaled SalihKhaled Salih A curious superstition There is a curious superstition doing the rounds in certain corners of Western academia and policy circles: the belief that if we redefine reality cleverly enough, it will
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By Khaled Salih A curious superstition There is a curious superstition doing the rounds in certain corners of Western academia and policy circles: the belief that if we redefine reality cleverly enough, it will stop being a problem. Terrorism, ideological fanaticism, theocratic politics – all of these can, we are assured,