Worth mentioning that the focus of speeches today has very much been how conservatives are — per numerous speakers — silenced. Rumors of police coming sent something of a rush through the crowd.

'I asked Sinwar, is it worth 10,000 Gazans dying? He said, even 100,000 is worth it'
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

' #Sudan is home to the world's largest displacement crisis, with more than a fifth of its population forced out of their homes by the civil war ... Yet the warring parties are as likely to sharpen their hatchets as they are to bury them.'

washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/… Ishaan Tharoor

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Monday marks one year since the start of Sudan's civil war, a hideous, ruinous conflict that has triggered the world's worst displacement crisis and the prospect of an imminent famine
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ME defense alliance is as vital for Israel as the air we breathe. It’s time for Israel to face reality: If it weren’t for our regional partners including Jordan, the country would look completely different this morning
My analysis in The Times of Israel
timesofisrael.com/a-middle-east-…

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US…

Both Iran and Israel crossed a line.
Now they should both draw a line under this. The alternative is too horrible to fathom.

I agree w/ all three of ᴅʀ ʜ.ᴀ. ʜᴇʟʟʏᴇʀ 🖖🏾 ⚜️’s points here, esp. this one:

“Iran hasn't achieved a weakening of the Israeli position at all; on the contrary, because Israel depends so strongly on Western support, it will now try to bolster it, with a fair amount of ability to do so.”

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Japan may be the U.S.’s most important ally washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

The reality is there are plenty of U.S. and European officials who, in private, share the same sort of pessimism on show here, but would never want to link themselves to Vance's brand or agenda.

Germany in the 21th century

The most senior Israeli commander 'dismissed for his role in the drone strike which killed seven aid workers' for World Central Kitchen in Gaza 'is a settler who signed an open letter in January calling for the territory to be deprived of aid.' telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Japan may be the U.S.’s most important ally, writes The Post's @Ishaantharoor wapo.st/49ziM8h

.Ishaan Tharoor Today’s Worldview: Japan may be the U.S.’s most important ally. ⁦The Washington Post⁩ washingtonpost.com//world/2024/04…

In Vienna for my flight back to Washington, I saw a UN IOM official escort a Kurdish family to our gate. I assume they are being resettled in the US. The mother is beaming and taking selfies with their kids. The dad is marveling at their boarding passes, gripping them tight. A…

A Rashtriya Janata Dal-organised mega rally in Patna, on 27 August 2017. India has the costliest elections in the world, with real party expenditure being tens or hundreds of times larger than what parties officially claim to the Election Commission.
caravanmagazine.in/politics/elect…

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The fallacy of “the West versus the rest”
On Matias Spektor’s important The Brookings Institution lecture last week
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