Vaccinated children could become victims if the fighting resumes. This is profoundly unjust. As Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization has said, "The best vaccine” for children in Gaza is “peace.” At the end of May, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled ...
A Qatari official says this means at least 20 more Israelis held in Gaza and 60 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons will be freed. James M. Dorsey, Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Middle East Institute, said the ceasefire may not last long once the...
in which the war in Gaza leads to the complete erosion of democratic norms and institutions that were weakened by Netanyahu and his allies. The war has already provided the government with an excuse to restrict civil liberties; the Knesset’s National Security Committee, for instance...
But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. Consider not only the chaos and calamity when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the last election. Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes. ...
sight. These include the issue of Taiwan—even though President Biden did reiterate America's one-China policy; events in Ukraine and the Middle East—especially the on-going war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza; the geopolitics of the South China Sea; cybersecurity concerns; and other issues...
an unnamed US government source told NYT that after discussions with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other officials “the Israelis improved and refined their plan” for the offensive. As a result, the report said, the IDF’s actions in Gaza have so far been “smaller and more narrowly foc...
Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements. Kai Bird Latest We Can’t Afford to Ignore This Threat to the People of GazaWe Can’t Afford to Ignore This Th...
Like many Democrats this past cycle, Blunt Rochester ran her Senate campaign on the premise of helping Harris win the presidency in order to protect America from Trump and his allies, painting them as threats to democracy. “The election did not come out the way we had hoped it would come...
russell, who last week visited gaza, said at a council briefing on women and children there. israel has bombarded gaza from the air, imposed a siege and invaded with soldiers and tanks. "the gaza strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," russell s...
JOHN KIRBY: And if you have – in the last 24 hours, they have been putting a map online of places where people in Gaza need to avoid and need to go. MARGARET BRENNAN: They don't have connectivity widely in Gaza. You know that. ...