middle east politics
Who has the right to the land in Israel-Palestine?: Palestinian rights
4 a.m. in the South Hebron Hills The bulldozer arrives before dawn. A family of eleven watches an IDF escort clear the perimeter around their home — declared illegal because the Civil Administration denied every building permit over twenty years. By sunrise the house is rubble.... Who has the right to the land in Israel-Palestine?: The Story
Fifty-six percent for one-third of the population 714,000. That is the number of Israeli settlers living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as of 2024. It was 110,000 at Oslo in 1993. It was 250,000 at Camp David in 2000.... Who is driving the Iran-Israel-US escalation?: Regional voices
The sound the sirens make You learn the difference between the warning siren and the all-clear siren the way you learn your mother’s voice — not because anyone teaches you, but because the alternative is dying confused.... Who is driving the Iran-Israel-US escalation?: Non-interventionists
Two tours and a line item Eighteen months in Anbar Province. Eight months in Helmand. We watched the Kabul airport footage from a living room in Virginia and understood the specific weight of a twenty-year investment collapsing in eleven days. $18 billion.... Who is driving the Iran-Israel-US escalation?: Diplomatic realists
The compliance reports nobody reads The JCPOA was signed on July 14, 2015, in Vienna. We can still recite the sunset clauses. The Arak heavy-water reactor redesigned to produce less than one kilogram of weapons-grade plutonium.... Who is driving the Iran-Israel-US escalation?: Deterrence hawks
Twelve minutes 180 ballistic missiles. October 1, 2024. Shahab-3s and Fattah-1s on trajectories aimed at Nevatim Air Base and Mossad headquarters. The flight time from Iranian launch sites to Israeli targets is twelve minutes. That is not a gesture. That is an attempt.... Who is driving the Iran-Israel-US escalation?: The Story
180 ballistic missiles, twelve minutes of flight time Roughly 180 Iranian ballistic missiles arced toward Israel on October 1, 2024. Not the telegraphed drone swarm of April, designed to be intercepted and interpreted. Ballistic missiles — fast, aimed at airbases.... No other choice. If it is indeed wrong to say out loud that I do not trust Jews anymore, then that will just have to be something I learn to live with like I do genocide, ethnic cleansing, pedophilia and the deliberate murder of world central kitchen and other aid workers. Israel is a savage and degenerate ally, a child killing lying thieving nation state , a menace to all of humanity and friend to no one...Especially Americans!
The PLA was offered everything they asked for, and Arafat rejected it. Israel has repeatedly negotiated, made offers meeting the Palestinian requests, and been turned down. "From the river to the sea" specifically means all the Jews in Israel must die....