There may not be a mathematical test for “proportionality,” in the war in Gaza, but to paraphrase a U.S. Supreme Court justice addressing a different issue, “I think I know it when I see it,” writes former American official Fred Hof in @newlinesmag.bsky.socialnewlinesmag.com/argument/i-a...
Nasrallah made a crucial point of saying escalation is tied to events in Gaza, raising the possibility that a war in Lebanon is possible after all, under certain circumstances. An approaching elimination of Hamas could reveal what those are. By Faysal Itani newlinesmag.com/argument/why...
In sitting out the conflict, for now, Iran’s ally in Lebanon sees no need to take part in a conflict that could weaken both sides
Current top read: "The Western world’s bloodlust drove Jews away from the antisemitism that it seemed no amount of assimilation could undo. And the Western world’s hypocrisy now sustains violence that threatens to unravel the entire Middle East into chaos." @danaelkurd.bsky.social for New Lines.
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
New from me for @newlinesmag.bsky.socialnewlinesmag.com/spotlight/is...
Since Oct. 7, hundreds of citizens — most Palestinian but many Jewish as well — have been fired, threatened or harassed in an official campaign to throttle antiwar dissent
Hands down one of the most iconic essays on Gaza and Israel yet. The Palestinian scholar Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.socialnewlinesmag.com/first-person...
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
I know people will be angry but I wrote this in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7 and I couldn't just sit with it. newlinesmag.com/first-person...
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
Missile by missile, Tehran has built an alliance from Lebanon to Gaza to Yemen — and changed the rules of war in the Middle East. A prescient and super relevant deep dive from 2021 by Arron Merat newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
Incidentally we published an essay in May this year based on new archival research revealing that, in the 1950s, the U.N. planned to resettle Palestinian refugees in the Sinai Desert, by Jonathan Adler. “How Plans to Move Palestinians to Egypt Backfired” newlinesmag.com/essays/how-p...
Ali Hashem, Mairav Zonszein, Aziz Alghashian with granular details about the thinking in three major countries -- Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Podcast | New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-...
Lydia Wilson, citing research and reviewing reactions to the Gaza war, on how trauma across generations results in an intractable cycle The Psychology of the Intractable Israel-Palestine Conflict - New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/argument/the...