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The Middle East Needs a Ceasefire Now

JERUSALEM– It is hard to imagine that anyone in the Levant or the broader Middle East managed to sleep on Saturday night, as Iran launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles toward strategic sites in Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Almost all of the drones and missiles were

The Middle East Needs a Ceasefire Now

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