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The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum

Violate the UN Charter and the laws of war. Create false pretexts. Make no plans for the day after. Fantasize about seizing another country's oil wealth. Under-estimate the potential for destabilization. Lessons not learned are mistakes repeated.

One US goal for the meeting was to induct Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords, that Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Kazakhstan joined, recognizing Israel in return for US economic and security pledges to throw the Palestinians under

Genocide does not necessarily mean the destruction of a nation accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended to signify a coordinated plan aiming at the destruction of the foundations of the life of national groups.

I have never understood the trope that Israel made generous offers to the Palestinians (it never did) but that the Palestinians rejected them, and therefore the Palestinians should be deprived of all their basic rights forever.

Despite the fact that the Middle East has experienced hellish heat waves and epic floods, Middle Eastern regimes get failing grades on climate action

The report concludes that Israel’s policies in Gaza give “reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.”

Because Glazer’s statement accepting an Oscar threatens the project some have called “Israelism,” a cult-like Zionism=Judaism and “Jews must support Bibi” complex of beliefs, some Zionists decided that he must be smeared and his reputation destroyed.

Saying that Israel must be democratic and Jewish is like saying the United States must be democratic and white or democratic and Christian.

Stefanik has campaigned on Great Replacement Theory tropes and indulged genuine anti-Semites. University presidents should stop playing into her hand and uphold the right to criticize any government.