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  • An Israeli woman shows her children how to put on a gas mask as they pick their gas masks at a distribution center on August 26, 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
    An Israeli woman shows her children how to put on a gas mask as they pick their gas masks at a distribution center on August 26, 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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    Israelis Getting Gas Masks After Syria Attack

    With chemical weapons used in Syria, Israelis fear an attack at home

    byYair Rosenberg
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Vitaly Armand/AFP/Getty Images and map University of Texas Libraries.)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Vitaly Armand/AFP/Getty Images and map University of Texas Libraries.)
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    The Cold War’s Arab Spring: How the Soviets Created Today’s Middle East

    Stolen Kremlin records show how the Soviets, including Gorbachev, created many of today’s Middle East conflicts

    byClaire Berlinski
  • Israelis of Kurdish origin hold Kurdish and Israeli flags during a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in wake of Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Mamara.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
    Israelis of Kurdish origin hold Kurdish and Israeli flags during a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in wake of Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Mamara.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Another Israel

    Kurds and Jews share a similar history and a common enemy

    byJames Kirchick
  • A satellite dish on a former miniature golf course in Saudi Arabia, 1991.(Chris Wilkins/AFP/Getty Images)
    A satellite dish on a former miniature golf course in Saudi Arabia, 1991.(Chris Wilkins/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Mind Games

    A brief history of information warfare

    byPhilip M. Taylor
  • King Hussein of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, President Bill Clinton, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak walk to the White House’s East Room to sign a West Bank autonomy accord, September 28, 1995.(AFP/Getty Images)
    King Hussein of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, President Bill Clinton, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak walk to the White House’s East Room to sign a West Bank autonomy accord, September 28, 1995.(AFP/Getty Images)
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    Not So Fast

    Geoffrey Wawro’s Quicksand misses an opportunity to make an isolationist critique of U.S. Middle East policy

    byF. Gregory Gause III
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    Drowning in Numbers

    Moses, Madoff, and the comforts of counting

    byLiel Leibovitz
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