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THREAD: Thereโs much to be said about recent developments in Syria, the background and context, the implications and repercussions.
THREAD: Iโve been making the argument that the ongoing negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire are a diversionary US-Israeli charade and shouldnโt be taken particularly seriously. Initia...
THREAD: Every time Israel conducts a massacre in a school, hospital, or designated safe zone, it claims the facility was being used for military purposes by Palestinians.
THREAD: There have been suggestions that Israelโs recent assassinations of Hizballah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyya in Tehran were not desi...
THREAD: Iโm interrupting my review of Arab-Israeli wars, which I will resume next week, to comment on a current development:
THREAD (PART III): On 6 June 1982 tens of thousands of Israeli troops, along with hundreds of tanks supported by the Israeli air force, invaded Lebanon.
It was not only Israelis who anticipated the destruction of their young state. Palestinians and Arabs were as ecstatic about the prospects of an early end to the Zionist project as...
THREAD: On Tuesday evening it appeared the end was finally in sight. Hamas formally accepted the ceasefire proposal put forward by Egypt and Qatar, and spontaneous celebrations eru...
THREAD: Who was there first? The short answer is that the question is irrelevant. Claims of ancient title (โThis land is ours because we were here several thousand years agoโ) have...
THREAD: According to a 2 January NYT article, US intelligence sources are claiming that both Hamas and Islamic Jihad were using Al-Shifa Hospital as a โcommand centerโ, and also he...
THREAD: The Israeli correspondent Barak Ravid had an interesting article in Axios on 29 December. The article in question, about a recent phone call between Biden and Netanyahu,
THREAD: Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are again publicly advocating the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Their proposals are being present...