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A flag of the United Nations flies at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on August 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, September 21, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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United States permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power attends the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, United States on December 23, 2016. (Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) looks on as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a meeting at the Plaza Hotel on September 19, 2016 in New York. (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Atef's grandchildren present on their right wrist the tattoo of a blue cross, a sign of their belonging to the Copts of Egypt, Cairo, November 9, 2010. (Alvaro Canovas/Paris Match via Getty Images)
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A nun reacts to the scene of a bomb explosion at the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church on December 11, 2016, in Cairo's Abbasiya neighbourhood. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama with King Salman bin Abd alAziz of Saudi Arabia during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House September 4, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
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Broken windows are seen after an explosion at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt on December 11, 2016. (Ahmed Gamil /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
