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IDF Faces a Harsh Reality in Southern Gaza
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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IDF Faces a Harsh Reality in Southern Gaza

Khan Younis, GazaWhat is happening in southern Gaza—and as important, what isn’t happening—threatens to leave the Middle East violently unstable for years. The battle for Khan Younis is forcing Israel to face a harsh reality: Hamas likely won’t be totally annihilated. And Israel’s two goals, killing Hamas’s leaders and rescuing all the hostages, are coming into contradiction.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The War in Gaza Has Been Deadly for Journalists
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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The War in Gaza Has Been Deadly for Journalists

On October 13th, Issam Abdallah, a video journalist with Reuters, was filming in southern Lebanon from on a hill overlooking the border with Israel. Tensions between Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli military had been rising, and several crews of journalists were stationed nearby. Abdallah was shooting footage of an Israeli outpost when the group was hit by incoming Israeli shelling. Six other journalists were injured, including the Agence France-Presse photographer Christina Assi, and Abdallah died from the blast.Last week, Human Rights Watch reported that the Israeli strike on Abdallah and the others appeared to be deliberate, based on images from the scene, as well as interviews with witnesses. Reuters also released an investigation of the attack finding that an Israeli tank fired twi...
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How Gaza and the British Right Split London on Armistice Day
15Nov By adminNo Comments
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How Gaza and the British Right Split London on Armistice Day

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, a hundred and five years after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, a crowd assembled next to the Cenotaph, Britain’s monument to its war dead, squinted, shuffled, raised phones into the low November sunlight, and waited for somebody to ruin the moment. Since the Hamas attack on October 7th, there had been four consecutive Saturdays of protests in central London, to oppose Israel’s retaliation in Gaza. The fifth march, coinciding with Armistice Day—the anniversary of the end of the First World War—was seen by the British establishment as one too many. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that it would be disrespectful. The Metropolitan Police asked the protest’s organizers to cancel it. But most people could also see t...
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The Long Wait of the Families of Hamas Hostages
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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The Long Wait of the Families of Hamas Hostages

Still, the Egyptian channel may hold more sway with Hamas leaders in Gaza, because Egypt, as Baskin put it, “controls the lifeline of the Gaza Strip.” As an example, he cited Egypt’s successful pressure on Hamas to stop supporting Islamic State activities in northern Sinai in 2018.So far, Israel’s wartime cabinet, which is made up of Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz, a centrist opposition leader, has presented Israel’s ground incursion into Gaza as improving the chances that the hostages will be released. “If there is no military pressure on Hamas, nothing will progress,” Gallant told family members of abductees last week. No doubt, Israel’s military operation is squeezing the Hamas leadership, which has been hiding out in a maze of underground tunnels since the w...
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Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas

Nine days ago, the idea that an obscure 2020 election denier from Shreveport, Louisiana, with less than five thousand dollars in his household’s bank accounts, a literalist’s belief in the presence of dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark, and a dubious past as an advocate of “conversion” therapy for gay teens could single-handedly shape the fate of tens of billions of dollars in U.S. military assistance to key allies at war was even more preposterous than the notion that America might soon reëlect its four-times-indicted former President.But these are not normal times in our politics. As the new Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson now wields outsized power over which bills get a vote in Congress, and he has decided to make the first major fight of his tenure a dispute with the White House an...
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Is there a Path Forward for Gaza and Israel?
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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Is there a Path Forward for Gaza and Israel?

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.After returning from a week of reporting in Israel, David Remnick has two important conversations about the conflict between Israelis and Arabs both in and outside of Gaza. First, he speaks with Yonit Levi, a veteran news anchor on Israeli television, about how her country is both reeling from the October 7th terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas, and grappling with how to strike at Hamas as the country prepares for an invasion that would be catastrophic for Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibeh maintains that peace is possible, if the influence of Hamas and the Israeli far right can be curtailed.David Remnick’s Letter fro...
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