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The base at Abu al-Duhur had been dead for thirteen years. Wrecked in the Syrian war, out of service since 2012, its runways cratered and its hangars stripped, it sat in Idlib province about 60 kilometers from the Turkish border, useful to no air force. On the night of August 18 eight Israeli missiles fell on it. Israel said it had struck to stop Turkish troops from moving in. Six days before the strike, Israel had gone to Washington with the same warning. Its intelligence, it said, indicated there might be Turkish movement into the airfield. The Americans took the…
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney took to the airwaves on August 22 to explain in a speech and Q&A why he walked away from trade negotiations with the United States and thereby opened Canada to economy-crushing tariffs from the country once considered its closest friend. Carney gave three key reasons. The U.S. proposal, Carney said, demanded compromises on the protection of Canadian culture and the French language, including the promotion of French-language shows on streaming platforms and mandatory labelling in French as well as English on packaging. Carney also said it was “unacceptable” that the U.S. “wanted to restrict” which…
Pakistan has been in the news recently, for reasons that would have seemed improbable a few years ago. It has become an intermediary between the United States and Iran, while also forging new strategic ties with Saudi Arabia and Turkey through the Mecca Defense Pact. Yet for all the attention garnered by its geopolitical moves, Pakistan—the real Pakistan—remains a country about which most Americans know little. To find that Pakistan, you have to go to Karachi. Karachi is Pakistan’s largest city, its commercial capital, and its busiest port. It is also where the country’s religious minorities are most visible—not just…
Some constitutional victories arrive with trumpets. Others arrive quietly in a case the press has decided not to love, for a journalist many would rather not defend. Democracy Partners v. O’Keefe is one of the latter. James O’Keefe is controversial. That’s no secret. In 2022, a Washington jury found against O’Keefe and Allison Maass, and the district court entered $130,000 in fraud and wiretapping damages arising from a 2016 investigation of Democratic political consultants. The Washington Post said the verdict “upends” Project Veritas’s journalism defense; Reuters presented it as the final rebuke of deceptive newsgathering. Recent headlines have described the…
If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the events unfolding in the small Palestinian town of Qusra, south of Nablus. The story of the future of the West Bank begins here. While much of the media is treating reports emerging from the area as simply another episode of “settler violence,” it is not. Qusra represents something far more consequential: a glimpse into the new Plan Dalet that Israel has in store for Palestinians. Plan Dalet was the military blueprint through which Zionist forces conquered much of…
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