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Needful things: U.S. policy on the current Hamas-Israel war; The Bully Pulpit
This passage was originally to be part of a larger article on a core set of measures the U.S. needs to undertake, to facilitate a “better peace” from this war – the “better peace” being the desired...
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How not to do deterrence
Whatever the Biden administration is doing about deterrence and containment in the Middle East – if we assume what’s going on is meant to achieve deterrence and containment – is unfolding in a peculiar...
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On Biden policy in the Middle East: A timeline tells a tale
Sometimes timelines speak louder than argument. We’ve found that on a number of occasions in the last several years, and a fresh occasion has arisen in that regard. Two events on Sunday, 26 November...
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“Totally defensive” in the Middle East: The void and the non-deterrence
It doesn’t help that the U.S. military chain of command was basically, as far as we can see right now, in Status Unknown around the New Year. It’s being reported that neither the National Security...
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TOC Ready Room 7 March 2024: Bridge to Gaza, Bag checks in NY; UPDATE
[See update on pier-off-Gaza story below. – J.E.] Reporting that ramped up from 6 to 7 March 2024 indicates President Joe Biden is to announce in his State of the Union (SOTU) address Thursday night...
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Strategic maneuver in Gaza: An analysis in maps and pictures
Some things are very simple to see, if they’re just illustrated. That’s why this update should be short. What we will see is the impact on Israeli security policy of the expanding rush to send aid to...
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One ping on the motive behind Biden’s and Democrats’ intervention attempts...
This will be one ping, one ping only, and a short one on the subject. There’s a distracted and incorrect belief that President Biden and Senator Chuck Schumer are truckling to the immigrant anti-Israel...
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There it is: Biden administration ponders blocking Israel with “peacekeeping”...
The first thing to be said about this concept – and we’re going to keep this short and focused – is that it’s not fundamentally about the debacle in Beirut in 1983 or about the “Samantha Power”...
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Two pings on strike that killed food-aid workers in Gaza
This will be two short pings. The set-up is that PM Netanyahu has acknowledged the IDF role in the strike on 1 April, in which seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen (WCK), traveling in a group...
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