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Oct 7, 2024 | 
international.thenewslens.com | Lydia Khalil
What you need to know A second Trump administration in the Middle East: Look strong but don't do too much; Serve Trump's self-interest; Exact retribution against the "deep state". Impulsive, unpredictable, and focused on personal interests, such an approach risks incoherence, instability, and the erosion of US influence in the region.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
lowyinstitute.org | Lydia Khalil
This article also appears in a collection of essays, Harris v Trump, written by Lowy Institute experts on the implications for Australia of the US presidential election.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
lowyinstitute.org | Lydia Khalil
Anyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law should condemn the recent assassination attempt against current candidate and former US President Donald Trump. Even, in fact especially, if that political violence targets someone who themselves has incited violence and has already done so much to undermine democracy.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
independentaustralia.net | Tom Tanuki |Alexi Demetriadi |Lydia Khalil
If the media can be of any use in the fight against Neo-nazis, it must use clear analysis. Nazis aren’t tools journalists can use to score points against Palestinian peace activists. Tom Tanuki reports. I WRITE A FORTNIGHTLY column where I regularly grapple with Australian media and politician ignorance and repressive tendencies towards grassroots politics or minority groups. It could be a daily column at the moment. I don’t know where to begin.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Lydia Khalil
Accusing the Australian government of censorship, Elon Musk and his company X - formerly Twitter - has vowed to challenge the take-down order from the eSafety commissioner. X has been told to remove a video - widely circulated on the platform - that shows the recent attack of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
lowyinstitute.org | Lydia Khalil
Events in the Middle East over the weekend have brought the longstanding Israel-Iran shadow war into the spotlight, compounding fears that the Gaza conflict will spill over into a regional war. Iran and its proxy forces launched a barrage of drones and missiles in the first ever direct attack by Iran against Israeli territory. It was in retaliation for an earlier Israeli strike targeting and killing senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commanders at an embassy annex in Damascus.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
lowyinstitute.org | Lydia Khalil
President Vladimir Putin has long sought to restore Russia’s global status after the personally and nationally humiliating defeat of the Cold War. One of the ways he has done so is through Russia’s involvement in the Middle East – highlighted by Russia’s 2015 military intervention in Syria but also evidenced in many other ways.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
lowyinstitute.org | Lydia Khalil
Each passing week of the Gaza conflict brings more reports of provocation by Iranian proxies and stronger responses from the United States, its partners and allies. Yet neither Iran nor the United States has an interest in a direct confrontation. If it is not in the interest of either major player to widen the war and risk having a direct face off, then why does it seem like we are slow marching towards that reality?
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
lowyinstitute.org | Lydia Khalil
Arab governments who have diplomatic relations with Israel, such as Egypt and Jordan, are under increasing pressure from their populations to sever ties amid a growing outcry over the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza. Likewise, there is demand from many citizens within Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, countries that had sought to normalise ties with Israel and are signatories of the Abraham Accords, to cease these efforts due to the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
lowyinstitute.org | Lydia Khalil
Bletchley Park, United Kingdom, is the site of some of the last century’s most consequential technological innovations. It was there that mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing developed the decoding machines necessary to decipher encrypted Nazi messages during the Second World War. This work at Bletchley Park changed the course of the conflict and was a large part of the ultimate success of the Allied powers, securing the future of democracy for another generation.
