The Israeli government assassinated the leader of Hamas’ political wing while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of the newly-elected Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian: Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political wing, was killed in Iran, Hamas announced...
Vance and the War in Gaza
J.D. Vance sometimes talks like a non-interventionist, but most of his foreign policy positions don’t match his rhetoric. The other day, he was talking about foreign conflicts and he said, “Sometimes, it is just none of our business and we ought to stay out of it.”...
The Dreadful Continuity of British Foreign Policy
Robert Wright doesn’t think much of the foreign policy direction of the new Labour government in Britain: [Labour shadow foreign secretary] Lammy depicts his foreign policy vision as new, but it’s pretty much the same vision that has long guided his party and...
Further Escalation Against the Houthis Makes No Sense
James Stavridis isn’t satisfied with the current pointless war against the Houthis and wants something more: Four mariners dead. Two commercial ships sunk. One ship and 25 mariners held captive. Global supply chains distorted. Where is a strong military response to...
Biden’s Weird Saudi Obsession
The Financial Times reports on how Saudi Arabia “won Biden back,” and it will come as no surprise that they didn’t have to do anything: As relations tentatively improved, the Biden administration floated the idea of a grand deal for Saudi Arabia to normalise ties with...
A Saudi Treaty Is a Dangerous Trap
The Biden administration won’t give up on one of the worst ideas in the world: The Biden administration is close to finalizing a treaty with Saudi Arabia that would commit the U.S. to help defend the Gulf nation as part of a long-shot deal to encourage diplomatic ties...
The US Enables Israel’s Man-Made Famine in Gaza
A veteran State Department official, Stacy Gilbert, resigned from the department this month to protest the administration’s policy and the department’s false claims that Israel isn’t blocking aid. She spoke to Akbar Shahid Ahmed about her resignation: “It drives me...
The Incorrigible President and His Indefensible Gaza Policy
Nick Kristof makes the mistake of taking Biden at his word: This should be an easy call, and it offers Biden a chance to rescue his failed Gaza policy, for, in this case, Biden and the World Court are fundamentally aligned [bold mine-DL]: They both oppose an all-out...
The Rafah Tent Massacre
Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on Sunday in a blaze caused by an Israeli airstrike on a Rafah tent camp full of displaced people. The massacre has been widely condemned: Several countries and global organisations have condemned...
Biden Lets Israel Off the Hook Again
The Biden administration finally released their report on Israeli compliance with international humanitarian law on Friday. Predictably, the administration ignored the mountain of evidence showing Israeli violations of international law in their conduct of the war and...