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Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view:
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Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World‐Historical Perspective By Gilbert Achcar. University of California Press, 2025. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism By Erik Skare. Verso, 2025. 240 pages. $24.95, paper.
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My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.
"Conscience" doesn't extend to allegedly handing the alleged weapon to the alleged killer. Why let her drive the radicalization narrative and not call her out on irresponsible gun ownership?
A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing
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September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Conscience" doesn't extend to allegedly handing the alleged weapon to the alleged killer. Why let her drive the radicalization narrative and not call her out on irresponsible gun ownership?
A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
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/19 Moreover SCOTUS is relentlessly blocking federal courts’ ability to enforce injunctions against the administration, so Carr has that going for him, which is nice.
And Congress either supports this or is pathologically ineffective in addressing it.
And Congress either supports this or is pathologically ineffective in addressing it.
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
/19 Moreover SCOTUS is relentlessly blocking federal courts’ ability to enforce injunctions against the administration, so Carr has that going for him, which is nice.
And Congress either supports this or is pathologically ineffective in addressing it.
And Congress either supports this or is pathologically ineffective in addressing it.
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Last year, when people wanted to talk about Gaza? Definitely the wrong time.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Last year, when people wanted to talk about Gaza? Definitely the wrong time.
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The responsible gun owners forgot to lock away grandpas rifle. But there might not have been a serial number, anyway.
September 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The responsible gun owners forgot to lock away grandpas rifle. But there might not have been a serial number, anyway.
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Key point about the Trump administration’s military strikes on “narcoterrorists”:
Even if Congress authorized these performative attacks, they would still be terrible & absurd.
Terrible b/c these are premeditated killings of civilians.
Absurd b/c there’s no military victory in the War on Drugs.
Even if Congress authorized these performative attacks, they would still be terrible & absurd.
Terrible b/c these are premeditated killings of civilians.
Absurd b/c there’s no military victory in the War on Drugs.
Another US strike on a vessel alleged to be smuggling drugs in the Caribbean.
Once again, the specific entity and individuals targeted are not identified—simply labelled as "terrorists." 1/n
Once again, the specific entity and individuals targeted are not identified—simply labelled as "terrorists." 1/n
September 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Key point about the Trump administration’s military strikes on “narcoterrorists”:
Even if Congress authorized these performative attacks, they would still be terrible & absurd.
Terrible b/c these are premeditated killings of civilians.
Absurd b/c there’s no military victory in the War on Drugs.
Even if Congress authorized these performative attacks, they would still be terrible & absurd.
Terrible b/c these are premeditated killings of civilians.
Absurd b/c there’s no military victory in the War on Drugs.
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Early View of Fall 2025 issue examines dehumanization in Gaza, what’s next after the US-Israel war on Iran, pan-Arab corporate elite, regional trade and conflict. Analyses by Yagil Levy, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, @hannesbaumann.bsky.social, many others.
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Middle East Policy: Vol 0, No 0
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September 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Early View of Fall 2025 issue examines dehumanization in Gaza, what’s next after the US-Israel war on Iran, pan-Arab corporate elite, regional trade and conflict. Analyses by Yagil Levy, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, @hannesbaumann.bsky.social, many others.
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I am aware Spencer cox is an individual improvement over Darin Hitler or whoever is running other nearby red states but he is a 2024 trump endorser less than four years after saying Trump should resign for getting several people killed during a coup attempt.
Cox isn’t a deviation from the problem…
Cox isn’t a deviation from the problem…
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I am aware Spencer cox is an individual improvement over Darin Hitler or whoever is running other nearby red states but he is a 2024 trump endorser less than four years after saying Trump should resign for getting several people killed during a coup attempt.
Cox isn’t a deviation from the problem…
Cox isn’t a deviation from the problem…
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My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.
Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World‐Historical Perspective By Gilbert Achcar. University of California Press, 2025. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism By Erik Skare. Verso, 2025. 240 pages. $24.95, paper.
Click on the article title to read more.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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/3 Trumpists and most of the new Right are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Responding to their violence with violence may not solve a damn thing. There are good arguments against it. But don’t let them pose for a millisecond as anything but the gleeful thug trash they are.
September 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
/3 Trumpists and most of the new Right are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Responding to their violence with violence may not solve a damn thing. There are good arguments against it. But don’t let them pose for a millisecond as anything but the gleeful thug trash they are.
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Audacious to say this shit before the shooter has even been caught. We do not know their identity or motive, let alone whether any organization funded their violence.
Releasing this now is a declaration of indifference to the truth about Kirk's murder
Releasing this now is a declaration of indifference to the truth about Kirk's murder
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Audacious to say this shit before the shooter has even been caught. We do not know their identity or motive, let alone whether any organization funded their violence.
Releasing this now is a declaration of indifference to the truth about Kirk's murder
Releasing this now is a declaration of indifference to the truth about Kirk's murder
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And on cue, the invocation of "terrorism" in connection with domestic political opponents.
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Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And on cue, the invocation of "terrorism" in connection with domestic political opponents.
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I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe
September 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe
My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.
Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World‐Historical Perspective By Gilbert Achcar. University of California Press, 2025. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism By Erik Skare. Verso, 2025. 240 pages. $24.95, paper.
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.
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Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World‐Historical Perspective By Gilbert Achcar. University of California Press, 2025. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism By Erik Skare. Verso, 2025. 240 pages. $24.95, paper.
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Free to read in our special issue, review by @mepeditor.bsky.social of Reagan by @maxboot.bsky.social: “Only if Trump can muster the courage to defy Netanyahu...will he possibly be remembered for achieving anything like Reagan’s deals with the Soviet Union.”
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Reagan: His Life and Legend By Max Boot. Liveright, 2024. 880 pages. $45, hardcover.
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July 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Free to read in our special issue, review by @mepeditor.bsky.social of Reagan by @maxboot.bsky.social: “Only if Trump can muster the courage to defy Netanyahu...will he possibly be remembered for achieving anything like Reagan’s deals with the Soviet Union.”
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My analysis of Woodward's War and Biden’s failures is free for all readers through May 1. "If journalism is the first draft of history [his] books often feel like streams of raw data scrawled across cocktail napkins and the backs of envelopes." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Biden's Gaza Failure, the Syrian Revolution, And the Folly of US Middle East Policy
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April 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My analysis of Woodward's War and Biden’s failures is free for all readers through May 1. "If journalism is the first draft of history [his] books often feel like streams of raw data scrawled across cocktail napkins and the backs of envelopes." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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All readers can access the news issue of Middle East Policy without charge through May 1! Check out analyses of Syria, Gaza, the US-Saudi deal, and reconciliation in conflict zones by @drrmason.bsky.social, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, and many others.
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Middle East Policy: Vol 32, No 1
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April 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
All readers can access the news issue of Middle East Policy without charge through May 1! Check out analyses of Syria, Gaza, the US-Saudi deal, and reconciliation in conflict zones by @drrmason.bsky.social, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, and many others.
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Netanyahu was warned at least twice before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, that the terror group’s military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar to Gaza with the premier’s approval.
WITH HIS APPROVAL!
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WITH HIS APPROVAL!
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Netanyahu was warned twice that Qatari cash was funding Hamas military wing – reports
According to accounts denied by PM's office, ex-Shin Bet chief, IDF told premier in 2019-2020 that terror chief Muhammad Deif was seizing millions from monthly payments
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March 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Netanyahu was warned at least twice before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, that the terror group’s military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar to Gaza with the premier’s approval.
WITH HIS APPROVAL!
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WITH HIS APPROVAL!
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An odd choice since others were in the Kremlin.
While he sat in his car outside of supermarket. Outside. A. Supermarket.
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
An odd choice since others were in the Kremlin.
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A mistake I fear many are making right now is assuming that most of America knows about the Signal chat. Studies show most people consume no news at all. Rightwing news—which is biggest—is either spinning or ignoring.
March 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A mistake I fear many are making right now is assuming that most of America knows about the Signal chat. Studies show most people consume no news at all. Rightwing news—which is biggest—is either spinning or ignoring.
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Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid distribution - https://www.972mag.com/starvation-gaza-israel-humanitarian-aid/
Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid
The acute hunger crisis in the Strip is part of a deliberate Israeli strategy to cripple Hamas’ governance capabilities and banish humanitarian groups.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid distribution - https://www.972mag.com/starvation-gaza-israel-humanitarian-aid/
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Buying votes.
Elon Musk admitted why he’s spending $18 million & paying voters $100 a pop to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court. It’s all about keeping GOP gerrymandering advantage in US House. If Dems retake House they can investigate Musk, DOGE & his $38 billion in govt contracts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk revealed why he's spending millions to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court
It's all about preserving gerrymandered districts that lock in Republican power.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Buying votes.