Gregg Carlstrom
Middle East Correspondent at The Economist
Middle East correspondent, @TheEconomist. Author, 'How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within.'
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2 months ago |
unsettledsources.blog | Gregg Carlstrom
In 2016, nine years and a lifetime ago, I met in Gaza with Mahmoud al-Zahar, one of the founders of Hamas. At one point in our interview he tried to explain why Hamas saw its control of Gaza as an achievement—even though, by that point, its control had brought three wars and almost a decade of Israeli and Egyptian siege. In the West Bank, he said, Palestinians had to endure the daily abuses of Israeli occupation: checkpoints, home demolitions, deadly raids.
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2 months ago |
unsettledsources.blog | Gregg Carlstrom
“Which America will show up?”I’ve heard that phrase a lot over the past decade. It’s a lament about the state of America’s policies in the Middle East, which seem to turn on a dime every four years. At a conference in Abu Dhabi earlier this month, one speaker said it from the stage; several others asked it in private conversations. Donald Trump seems to have upended America’s approach to the region, much as Joe Biden did four years earlier.
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2 months ago |
unsettledsources.blog | Gregg Carlstrom
I had planned to write about something else today, but that seems a bit pointless when the whole world is talking about Trump’s tariffs. When it comes to trade with the US, the Middle East is a trivial player compared to Europe, Asia and North America. But the region offers a good example of how these tariffs are divorced from any real economic logic. Jordan signed a free-trade agreement (FTA) with America in 2000. It was the first Arab country to do so.
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2 months ago |
unsettledsources.blog | Gregg Carlstrom
"This [is] not about the Houthis." — Pete Hegseth, hours before America bombed the HouthisAn introductory note: This will be a home for periodic writing that is too long for Twitter and too niche or off-topic for my day job. Much of it will focus on the Middle East, but I hope to venture a bit further afield as well. By now we are almost a week into Signalgate, the Trump administration’s “who among us hasn’t accidentally added a journalist to a group chat full of classified attack plans” scandal.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
economist.com | Gregg Carlstrom
Ali Khamenei, Binyamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump will determine whether the conflict continuesBy Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent, The Economist When the Gaza war began in late 2023 even some Israeli generals thought it would be finished within two or three months. Few observers thought it would drag on for more than a year. Fewer still predicted the swift decapitation of Hizbullah, the Shia militia based in Lebanon, or the back-and-forth bombardment between Iran and Israel.
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In the 1980s Israel allowed an Islamist group in Gaza to start gathering weapons, in the hope that it would fight Fatah, Israel's main enemy at the time. That group went on to become Hamas. Glad to see everyone has learned the right lessons from history https://t.co/7Q882Rkt0O
The GHF ignored weeks of warnings that its model would mean overwhelming crowds. And then the inevitable result: "Senior commanders had considered managing the crowds through the use of live fire. 'The intent was to direct the population using gunfire.'" https://t.co/bH9c9tYHOk
Can someone please Photoshop Musk's face on here https://t.co/eRCvuZarzk
