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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.
Nov 16
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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.
Nov 9
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Matthew Petti
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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.
Nov 6
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Matthew Petti
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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.
Oct 29
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Matthew Petti
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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…
Oct 20
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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.
Oct 19
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Matthew Petti
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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.
Oct 15
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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.
Oct 10
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Journalists falsely report Democratic Socialist rally for Hamas
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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.
Oct 7
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Matthew Petti
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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.
Oct 6
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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…
Oct 4
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Saudi-backed media promotes "Great Replacement" theory to Iranians
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September 2023
It's not about "ancient hatreds"
The different trajectories of the Ukrainian-Polish and Azerbaijani-Armenian conflicts show how politics affect historical memory and ethnic conflict.
Sep 30
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