The first time I ever really registered the existence of Drop Site News is when its newsletter started to appear in my inbox. As best I can tell, Drop Site is a kind of spinoff of The Intercept, with politics that are Grayzone adjacent. It...
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Syria, as seen from the Golan Heights. Photo by author. The New York Times gets it right. The administration has tried many forms of pressure and admonition, including public statements,.
Wall near the Erez Crossing, Gaza Strip, photo by the Author In "Politics as a Vocation," Max Weber contrasted the "ethic of ultimate ends" with the "ethic of responsibility." We.
Image prompted by Dan Nexon at Nightcafe From the New York Times: Three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan on Sunday and 25 others were injured in what the Biden administration said was a drone strike from an Iran-backed militia, the first American military...
Per The Washington Post: The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to do more to prevent the killing and harm of civilians in Gaza but did not call.
"Israeli Protesters, 24 July 2023," by Eran Neuman. Used with permission. This is a guest post by Daniel J. Levine and Daniel Bertrand Monk (yes, that meant emails among three.
Talks between the US and Iran to put something like the JCPOA back in place have been going on for a couple of years now. I’m not keeping close track of the talks the way I did back in 2014 and 2015, because back then...
As the new Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu has proposed judicial changes that would give the Knesset more control over the judiciary. It's a complicated package, and one explanation is here..
Well, this does make a certain kind of sense, I suppose. The Israeli strike on what now appears to have been a nuclear reactor at a very low state of.
I've been reluctant to comment further on the Israeli strike on Syria, because I still don't really understand what happened. As Kevin Drum notes, this appears to be a common affliction; even the White House can't seem to decide what happened:This is really the damnedest...
I really don't know what to think about the airstrike on Syria at this point. The allegations regarding Syria's nuclear program seem to be getting increasingly detailed. Peter at Duck.
In honor of Yom Kippur, and the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, I think it's appropriate to review Abraham Rabinovich's The Yom Kippur War. Rabinovich.