On #WorldPressFreedomDay , watch #Palestinian journalists on this Carnegie Endowment short doc'y talk about their struggles reporting in #Gaza , the most deadly place to report in modern times, says CPJ MENA. Part of the Project on Shrinking Space for Israel/Palestine Discourse.👇🏽

In a recent appearance on the Daniel Davis Deep Dive podcast, Jon Hoffman discussed the US-Israel relationship amid the ongoing war in Gaza.

Listen to the entire episode here: buff.ly/3UnCH4r
#Israel #Gaza

RA opportunity: I am looking for a DC-based research assistant, with native proficiency in Arabic to conduct archival research using the Ba'ath Party archives at the Hoover Institution's DC satellite office over June and July. Please reach out to [email protected] share!

'We need to pledge American troops to defend Saudi Arabia because Israel' was always going to be controversial. 'We need to pledge American troops to defend Saudi Arabia because uuuuuh reasons' is going to be a much harder sell.
theguardian.com/world/2024/may…

As promised, Joe Biden is uniting America.

قبل قليل، سلمنا رسمياً دعوة للسفيرة السعودية في واشنطن لحضور مؤتمرنا الخميس القادم..

تفاصيل القصة لاحقاً!
Ahmed Hakami أحمد حكمي الرؤية الشعبية People’s Vision
#مؤتمر_البحث_عن_الديمقراطية

TODAY’S WORLDVIEW
The delusions behind Biden’s plan for Middle East peace
(free to read)
wapo.st/3y7DoXX

Excited to share my latest w/ Responsible Statecraft, via Defense Priorities, analyzing ongoing US efforts to normalize #Israel - #SaudiArabia relations.

In short, the deal is not in US interests and is increasingly unrealistic under current conditions, as I argue below:
responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-saudi-a…

On the topic of the “Abrahamic Agreements and Enabling Authoritarianism”, Dr. Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman speaks in the #QFDconference

Saudi Arabia now pushing for a Plan B with the U.S. in the event Netanyahu is intransigent on the Palestinian issue (he is).

As you might expect, it’s a one-way deal with Riyadh getting all the benefits and the U.S. getting zilch. How dumb do you have to be to sign this?

“I remain confounded by how obsessed this administration seems with this deal, given all the obvious downsides and given the fact that we’re not making a deal with Saudi Arabia – we’re making a deal with one guy, a corrupt psychopath.”

A must-read piece by Jon Hoffman

Benjamin Netanyahu is Pushing for War with Iran

nationalinterest.org/feature/benjam…

In 1st episode of Amwaj.media's 'The Axis'—a new podcast on #Iran and its Arab allies—Ali Hashem علي هاشم and I address Iran-Israel confrontation and 3 shifts that could reshape region:

-KSA-Israel normalization
-Iran-US 'de-escalation'
-Iran-KSA/GCC business

amwaj.media/podcast/episod…

New from me in RealClearWorld:

The Saudis want Americans to be willing to fight and die on their behalf in exchange for playing nice with the Israelis.

It's a bad deal Washington, and President Biden & Secretary Antony Blinken should know better.
realclearworld.com/articles/2024/…

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

Lindsey Graham just blithely declaring that Saudi won't normalize relations with Israel without a 'mutual defense agreement,' so we have to give it to them, along with helping their uranium enrichment program.

America Last. Behind Saudi Arabia.

Really enjoyed this interview with Daniel Davis Deep Dive. It's past time to fundamentally transform the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Had Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman from Cato Institute on #DeepDive today revealing an uncomfortable but desperately needed truth: US' reflexive spt & endorsement of whatever #Netanyahu says is harming America. Biden President Biden would do well to follow Jon's script: youtube.com/watch?v=esKrUN…

New! Lucas Webber, No other Peter Smiths and myself wrote about Islamic State Khorasan’s Westward Network Expansion Into Iran, Turkey, and Europe for The Diplomat. thediplomat.com/2024/04/islami…

Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn't even try to explain how the Blinken-McGurk plan to protect the brutal Saudi regime serves the interests of the American people

He wants US taxpayers & troops to defend the billionaire Saudi dictator so the US can escalate the proxy war against Iran