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Do rifles at a hospital prove a war crime took place?
Attacking hospitals is still illegal, even if wounded enemy soldiers bring their guns into the building.
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Bernie Sanders’ Israel
Senator Sanders has a personal history with the “Stalinist kibbutz” movement whose villages were attacked outside of Gaza.
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Will the Gaza war really hurt Biden’s reelection chances?
Biden is in the worst of both worlds, facing both hawkish and dovish pressure from key voters. It's partially his own fault.
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October 2023
It's always "complicated"
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is no more or less complicated than any other ethnic war. Pretending otherwise just muddies the waters.
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The Vietnam moment in the Middle East
Like the Buddhist uprising in Vietnam, the war in Gaza has been a mask-off moment for U.S. officials who believed that U.S. policy was for the locals…
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The international pressure on Israel that really matters
Western finger-wagging is a convenient excuse for Israel to back down in the face of real regional opposition and hard military constraints.
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9/11 and the Holocaust don't explain the Israel-Palestine war
Western leaders are casting a typically brutal ethnic conflict as war of good and evil, with dangerous consequences.
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Journalists falsely report Democratic Socialist rally for Hamas
Members of the media and congress condemned the DSA for organizing a pro-Palestine rally. None of them bothered to ask whether the DSA really did.
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The Israeli-Palestinian media war inverts itself
Both sides tried aimed to gain Western sympathy for their plight during the 2021 uprising. Now they want to project strength.
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A (not very subtle) American soldier (allegedly) tries to spy for China
The indictment against accused defector Joseph Daniel Schmidt involves some bizarre Google searches.
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Saudi-backed media promotes "Great Replacement" theory to Iranians
Iran International, an opposition channel backed by Saudi Arabia, is telling Iranians that their government is trying to flood the country with Afghan…
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September 2023
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