My latest. On the IOF Arabic spokesperson. #Lebanon#Israel#Gazawww.hauntologies.net/p/in-lebanon...
The Ghosts of Israel's Future, Part III
Reuters on indications Hizbullah has dropped Gaza truce as condition for Lebanon ceasefire; diplomats say shift too late to make much difference: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Hezbollah officials are no longer demanding a truce in Gaza as a condition for reaching a ceasefire in Lebanon, rowing back from an oft-repeated promise to keep fighting until Israel halts its offensive against Hezbollah's Iran-backed ally Hamas.
âThe costs and risks of what follows the Israeli offensive have yet to be registered â not only the too easily forgotten civilian deaths.. but also the erasure of all targeting red lines, and the uncertainties generated byâŚnew Hezbollah leadership.â abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-after...
The risks of a widening war with no limits, plus this week's MENA Academy
âSyria was the beginning of the expansion of Hizbollah,â said Randa Slim, a programme director at the Middle East Institute in Washington. âThat weakened their internal control mechanisms and opened the door for infiltration on a big level.â menasky
Depth and quality of intelligence helped Netanyahuâs forces turn the tide against Lebanese militant group
A few days ago, the price of a small bag of pita bread in Lebanon was ~50,000LL (a/b US$.56). Now my friend canât find bread for less than 100,000LL ($1.12), if he can find it at all. To get a sense of historical inflation, a small bag of bread before the 2019 financial crisis was 500LL.
APNewsAlert: BEIRUT (AP) â Lebanese health minister says 274 people have been killed in ongoing Israeli strikes, more than 1,000 wounded.
I'll take this as an opportunity to pitch the special issue I'm editing. Maybe this will motivate you. www.dohainstitute.org/en/News/Page...
Siyasat Arabiya and Middle East Law & Governance (MELG) are pleased to announce this call for papers for dual special issues on quantitative methods in the political science of...
Freshly published 'Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946â2020' @coco-journal.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Class is often neglected as a factor influencing foreign policy. While recent research explains the foreign policy positions of states in terms of the preferenc...