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Philadelphia
Joined June 2009
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In 2002 Erdogan said Turkish law should recognize gay Turks. Since 2015 he has banned Istanbul Pride every year, quit the Istanbul Convention, and used his Sept. 22 U.N. speech to attack gender policies. @mrubin1971 asks what drives the reversal.
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Why does the war against Iran's regime keep stopping mid-battle? Ira Straus borrows Freud's idea of displacement: fighting by every means except the one that wins. Regime change, he argues, happens on the ground, with air and naval power in support.
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توطين الوظائف في دول الخليج العربية يوفّر فرص عمل ولا يُغني عن العمالة الوافدة رغم سياسات التوطين، لا يزال الوافدون في كثير من دول الخليج العربية يؤدون معظم الوظائف التي تقوم عليها الاقتصادات. Radhika Lakshminarayanan
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87 letters from 70 readers. Arming a million Iranians (a thousand tons of rifles, and a record of failure). How the Forum's map of American Islamism differs from the Boston map. Who shot the tanker off Khasab. @greggroman answers in today's Insider.
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"Empathy, good. Suicidal empathy will bring the end of us." @GadSaad on the latest MEF Podcast. Full episode in reply ⬇️
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Full episode — "Gad Saad on Suicidal Empathy and the West's Survival," MEF Podcast with host Lauri Regan, Sept. 28, 2026: youtu.be/0Gh4-V8qDxU Views expressed are the guest's own.
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کردها؛ حلقه گم‌شده در تنگ‌تر کردن حلقه اقتصادی بر ایران کردهای ایرانی می‌توانند به پیروزی آمریکا کمک کنند، اما نه در ازای وعده صرف. @mrubin1971
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Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan eşcinsel mi? Erdoğan’ın eşcinsellik konusundaki takıntısı, kendinden en çok nefret edenler arasında yer alan, kimliğini gizleyen eşcinsellerinkinden farklı değil. @mrubin1971
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الخيارات التي على السعودية أن تحسمها الآن على محمد بن سلمان أن يدرك أن مفتاح الأمن في السعودية يكمن في الرياض وفي استراتيجياته هو @mrubin1971
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چه کسی پشت انتصاب وزیر ناکارآمد اقتصاد ایران است؟ احسان خاندوزی ویژگی‌هایی دارد که شاید در تهران مهم‌تر از توانایی درک اقتصاد باشد. @potkazar
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Live today at 1:00 pm ET: MEF podcast with @GadSaad. Can the West survive suicidal empathy? What happens when compassion overrides reason and self-preservation, applied to Israel, antisemitism, Islamism, academia and immigration. Watch live: meforum.org/podcasts/can-the…
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