“The Iran war is the culmination of Trump’s lawlessness since he returned to office” — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Stop Using Our Airports to Bomb Iran” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
Everything is awful, but there is something grimly amusing about the xenophobic nationalist begging foreign governments to bail him out of the disaster he created.
Videos and satellite images show Iran's drone army puncturing U.S. and allied defenses flip.it/81ljvx
Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 826 people in 12 days (since March 2):
— 106 children killed
— 65 women killed
— 31 medical workers killed
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“The Iran war is the culmination of Trump’s lawlessness since he returned to office” — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Twenty years after the suburbs of Beirut were first devastated, the “Dahiya Doctrine” - which some call collective punishment - has become a feature of Israel’s wars in Gaza and elsewhere.
Now it’s come back “home,” as
Dahiya is the casualty of another Israel-Hezbollah war.
My report
To be fair the negotiations were never meant to go anywhere, they were just a smokescreen to buy time for the military buildup. But still.
“The path to Trump’s reckless war in Iran was paved by the collapse of accountability in Washington” — my latest for @theguardian.com
It was my pleasure to contribute to this @jadaliyya.bsky.social round table on the War on Iran and International Law www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234
"No Gulf leader is likely to emerge from this conflict unchanged. They’ll face questions: how to defend borders and cities; how much to trust Washington; how to engage with the global economy and markets; and how to cooperate with each other. The longer the war burns, the deeper the transformation."
“He Bet Big, He Lost Big” — latest Tehran Times front page trolling Trump
A seriously under-discussed problem with the Biden interregnum is that Democratic foreign policymakers basically adopted all of the Trump I maxims in MENA, in particular the expansion of the Abraham Accords which have done nothing for stability in the region.
“Destroying Beirut” — Time Magazine cover, August 1982.
Israel bombed this same beach (Ramlat al-Bayda) last night, killing 8 displaced people who had been staying in tents along the beach.
"As the US and Israel sought to degrade regime institutions, they have hit more than 20,000 non-military buildings, according to Iran’s Red Crescent, including 17,353 that were residential."
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“An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran was more severe than has previously been revealed, with dozens suffering injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns.”
Did DoD soft pedal?
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Per the @nytimes.com, Israel “raids” or “claims” parts of neighboring countries — it doesn’t invade or occupy them
“Israel’s latest war on Lebanon is intended to uproot and dispossess Lebanon’s Shia community as a whole. Aside from committing war crimes, Israel is trying to instigate a new sectarian conflict in Lebanon” — my comments to @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social
A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.
“Trump, Look Them in the Eyes” — front page of tomorrow’s Tehran Times with photos of Iranian children killed by US bombing of elementary school
Beirut, 1982 (photo by Steve McCurry)
Very dystopian timing. I’ve been working on this since November.
Thanks @thedialmag.bsky.social
severe violations of international humanitarian law were normalized by Biden and Blinken in Israeli-US Gaza genocide
Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 394 people in the past week, including 83 children | www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
This has become increasingly clear. The US govt treats its sanctions list as a military target list at least in some circumstances. They did it with the Caribbean boat strikes. They did it in previous strikes against Iran. To be clear being sanctioned doesn’t, on its own, justify military attacks
In a follow-up statement, the Lebanese army said Israeli commandos were dressed like them, using vehicles & ambulances similar to those of Islamic Health Authority, a Hezb-affiliated org. So an airborne & land op. Where did the vehicles come from? Nabi Chit is closer to Syria than to Israel #lebanon
I wrote this about the different conversations happening in the Gulf about the ongoing war.
The @nytimes.com will use every possible euphemism to avoid saying “Israeli invasion”
“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social
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