No, Don’t ‘Take the Fight’ to the Houthis

Steven Cook wants to have a new war with Yemen: As a result, if the United States wants to protect freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and its environs, it is going to have to take the fight directly to the Houthis. Escalation against the Houthis is a phenomenally...

‘Another Night of Killing and Massacres’ in Gaza

The Associated Press reports that dozens more civilians were killed in last night’s airstrikes in northern Gaza: “It was another night of killing and massacres,” said Saeed Moustafa, a resident of the Nuseirat camp. He said people were still crying out from the rubble...

Sounding the Alarm on the Starvation of Gaza

The level of acute food insecurity in Gaza has become catastrophic, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today: Between 24 November and 7 December, over 90 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.08 million...

Our Rotten Foreign Policy Status Quo

Perry Bacon probably speaks for many Americans that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy closely and are then shocked by how terrible it can be: Like a lot of Americans, I don’t follow foreign affairs as closely as I probably should. I have generally assumed that the...

Another Shameful US Veto at the United Nations

Friday was another shameful day for the Biden administration and the United States: The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution Friday backed by almost all other Security Council members and dozens of other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian...

The Devastation of Gaza

The Financial Times reports on the scale of destruction in Gaza: Citing estimates of damage to urban areas, military analysts say the destruction of northern Gaza in less than seven weeks has approached that caused by the years-long carpet-bombing of German cities...

Famine Stalks the People of Gaza

The UN emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths, issued a grim warning about the humanitarian crisis created by the war in Gaza: The UN’s top aid official has said the Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza has been just as devastating as in the north,...

Israel’s ‘Mass Assassination Factory’

+972 Magazine published an important report last week that details how the Israeli military is conducting the war in Gaza: “Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided...

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Is Catastrophic

The Israeli government is vowing to resume the war in Gaza: “In recent days I’ve heard a question: Will Israel return to fighting after this stage of returning our hostages is over? My response is an unequivocal yes,” the premier [Netanyahu] says. “There is no way we...

The Starvation of Gaza Is a Crime

I wrote about the Israeli government’s starvation of the people of Gaza in my new column this week: There is a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our eyes in Gaza. People are not just starving, they are being starved, and it is happening with the support of our...