Nov 29Member-onlyThe record of Gaza’s ‘humanitarian pauses’We are nearing the end of the sixth day (in West Asia) of the daily ‘humanitarian pauses’ that have been painstakingly negotiated between the Hamas military/political leadership and their Israeli counterparts, via a trail that goes through Qatar and Egypt, with the Biden administration also eager to take a lot…World8 min readWorld8 min read
Nov 20Yes, Israel’s whole 56-year occupation of Gaza has to end. Now.As diplomats from the Global Majority start to gather in Beijing (shown above) and prepare to hold a virtual BRICS summit on the Gaza crisis starting tomorrow (November 21), here is a recapitulation of some of my thinking on how this urgently needed crisis-ending diplomacy should proceed… Many voices worldwide…World6 min readWorld6 min read
Nov 17Elements of an effective, UN-supervised ceasefire in GazaThere is a broad and growing global campaign for a ceasefire in Gaza. (U.S. Pres. Biden has countered it by calling for one or more much briefer “pauses” to allow for humanitarian operations. But still the pro-ceasefire campaign continues to grow.) …Gaza6 min readGaza6 min read
Nov 10The UN Security Council can end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Here’s how.In the past 35 days, the Israeli military has killed well over 10,000 people in Gaza. It has reduced most of Gaza City and the extensive refugee camps that surround it to barren moonscapes of rubble. Meantime, Israeli settler extremists have gone on killing and land-grabbing sprees in the occupied…World8 min readWorld8 min read
Nov 8The United States. Must step aside. From Arab-Israeli ‘peacemaking’.The United States. Must step aside. From Arab-Israeli ‘peacemaking’. It is that simple. For 50 years now, Washington has dominated all the efforts that the world’s nations have undertaken in their search for a just and lasting resolution to the many strands of the Israeli-Arab conflict. That U.S. move to…World8 min readWorld8 min read
Nov 6Yes, Joe Biden, you can stop Israel’s genocide on Gaza!Sec. of State Antony Blinken traveled to Israel over the weekend to urge Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu to allow “humanitarian pauses” in the bombing and ground campaign against Gaza that has now killed > 10,000 people there Netanyahu publicly rebuffed that appeal. …World4 min readWorld4 min read
Oct 31Gaza’s agony: Theses 7–10Last Friday, I set out (with a slight excess of ambition) to compile ten theses that might help guide analysts and policymakers through the uncharted waters of the coming weeks of the Gaza-Israel crisis. As it happened, I was able only to complete the first six of these, which can…World News11 min readWorld News11 min read
Oct 27Gaza’s agony: Ten theses1. The over-arching priority right now is to get a complete, theater-wide ceasefire between Israel and Gaza This complete ceasefire is quite distinct from a “humanitarian pause”, such as might be used merely to massage some of the pain the Gaza Palestinian are currently suffering, just a little, at some points, for a limited period of time. No! …World11 min readWorld11 min read
Oct 24Israel’s leadership crisis worseningIn yesterday’s essay here on Globalities, I started to dig through the many layers of the continuing Gaza-Israel crisis and concluded that now and for the foreseeable future, “Just continuing to bomb Gaza from the air seems to be something that Israelis and the U.S. …Gazaunderattack5 min readGazaunderattack5 min read
Oct 23The many layers of the Gaza-Israel conflictThis terrible conflict, which since October 7 has killed 1,400 Israelis and more than 5,000 Gaza Palestinians and in which the United States is very deeply entangled, has many different layers-from the anguish of individual families in Gaza as they continually see their loved ones killed or maimed, and their…World12 min readWorld12 min read
