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• PPolitics & GovernancePower gap, Iran's strategy and Muslim states' hedging left Palestine unliberated, analysis findsThe analysis finds the Axis lost to a US-backed Israeli power gap and fought on Iran's terms. Muslim states hedged, and few wrote measures against the occupation into their own law.
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