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Article by Amal Mudallali examines challenges towards the rules-based international order and implications for the Middle East, arguing that the system is facing an existential crisis from the same global actors who built and benefited from it. Mudallali looks at Trump's unilaterialism, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and Israel's near-total impunity in Gaza as developments that have collectively ruined the credibility of the rules-based international order, with the Middle East and Palestinians bearing the most severe consequences.