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Erin A. Snider@erinsnider.bsky.social |
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IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: bit.ly/3j8sN8k
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Erin A. Snider
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"After Israel launched its war, more than 115,000 Gazan refugees in Cairo, Egypt, remain in limbo, with no legal status and nowhere else to go. They are members of a new diaspora of Palestinians, a people already haunted by memories of displacement."
menasky
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Erin A. Snider
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The past week’s doom-news cycle has reminded me of how much I miss JLD and Veep.
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Erin A. Snider
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"International pressure on Israel to ensure greater aid provision has had limited effect...Flour from aid agencies has been the only thing standing between many people & starvation. “Here in the north we have eaten animal fodder made of maize & even soya, but now we have flour,” Aboul Hosna said."
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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Jonathan Cohn
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"The group’s data indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process." apnews.com/article/isra...
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Brendan Nyhan
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Erin A. Snider
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The piece importantly includes interviews with European officials on Biden’s physical state over the last year.
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Erin A. Snider
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Details in this excellent piece on Biden are both damning and infuriating. Thursday night wasn’t an aberration or just a cold. If the alarm bells weren’t sounding for you by now, they will be after reading this.
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Erin A. Snider
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Justice Sotomayor:"...the long-term consequences of today’s decision are stark...This new official-acts immunity now ‘lies about like a loaded weapon’ for any president that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the nation."
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Erin A. Snider
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Utterly delusional on every front as this piece articulates well: “This [plan] is just the latest iteration. The idea in Israeli minds is that someone — the Arab states, the international community — will pay for it, & locals in Gaza will run it. But no one is biting,” the person added. menasky
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Erin A. Snider
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"It is entirely possible that the debate will not much change the polls; it is entirely possible that Biden could have a much stronger debate in Sept; it is not impossible to imagine that Trump will find a way to lose. But, at this point, should Biden engage the country in that level of jeopardy?"
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Moira Donegan
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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.
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Erin A. Snider
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Starting a sweltering summer off right, 2.5 hours into a power cut in Cairo on the June 30th holiday :/
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Truth Axe
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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.
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Erin A. Snider
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"Under his leadership, the nation has prospered and begun to address a range of long-term challenges, and the wounds ripped open by Mr. Trump have begun to heal. But the greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election."
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Erin A. Snider
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David Faris on possible paths away from the current hellscape: "Don’t listen to those who say there’s no time—the only thing that can’t happen is for Biden to go back in time & not run in the first place. Every other option is, & now should be, very much on the table."
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Erin A. Snider
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"In Lebanon, says Mohammad Srour, the mayor of Aita al-Chaab, “it’s systematic destruction”. “They are destroying the infrastructure, to make it impossible for you to return and live here,” he said. More than 95,000 people have been forcibly displaced in Lebanon’s south, according to the UN."
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Erin A. Snider
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"U.S. officials also worry that an economic crash in the West Bank could lead to a surge in violence in the territory, which has yet to see a mass uprising despite months of deadly Israeli military operations."
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Erin A. Snider
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“Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for UNRWA, said that the humanitarian operation in Gaza had become “totally unnecessarily one of the most cumbersome and complex in the world right now.”
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Erin A. Snider
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Austin said: “Another war between Israel and Hizbollah could easily become a regional war, with terrible consequences for the Middle East and so diplomacy is by far the best way to prevent more escalation.”
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
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Erin A. Snider
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congratulations!
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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)
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“Exterminationist violence is almost always preceded by other forms of persecution.. including ghettoisation, ethnic cleansing and racist dehumanisation. All of these have been features of Israel’s relationship to the Palestinian people.”
Adam Shatz in fine form
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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borderless
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Lebanon's best farmland is in the south. The use of white phosphorus there is going to cause crop failures, worsening food insecurity in a country marred by economic crisis. These border skirmishes have also displaced 100,000 civilians.
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APSA MENA Politics Section
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We've been a bit silent here but if you haven't yet, you really should give our Spring 2024 newsletter a read! Most of the issue is dedicated to Gaza and has 13 (!) incredible contributions + the intro of the symposium by @nerminallam.bsky.social @dbgreenwald.bsky.social & Noora Lori
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Erin A. Snider
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‘Everything is broken with the system’ is my strongest feeling after two days of domestic travel hell :/
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Erin A. Snider
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a United rep told me in exasperation that “I may have noticed that United customer service desks no longer exist in the airport—they just told us this two weeks ago with no warning.” More moments for me to rant about why we can’t have nice things like bullet trains in this country among other things
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Erin A. Snider
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Almost two days now into trying to leave two Texas airports for Virginia amid epic cancellations, delays, and airline bs. The final indignity—just told my bag arrived home yesterday. I would have gladly endured hours in cargo hold on any flight instead of the hell of the last 48 hours.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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right now, the extent of what democrats can do is hounding and shame, which they should do! biden should condemn the insurrectionist members of the court, durbin and whitehouse should hold hearings and demand that alito and thomas both answer questions before congress. make it a spectacle, basically
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Gillian Branstetter
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This is why the right opposes not only birth control/abortion (which allow you to delay or forego pregnancy) but IVF (which allows you to pursue it later). The later you have children the fewer you're likely to have, and they need the "right" people to procreate early and often
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Thomas Cheney
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The logic on this is really stupid because if true then its not one sided. If war crimes are acceptable even necessary for victory then the outrage for Hamas or Russian atrocities is surely misplaced? (unless we're just going it's ok when we do it not when they do it. And yes I know that's it)
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Erin A. Snider
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Loool.
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Erin A. Snider
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Fabulous news! Congratulations!!
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Oona Hathaway
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Netanyahu has called the civilian deaths in Israeli strikes on Rafah a "tragic accident."
In our forthcoming law review article, "Mistakes in War," Azmat Khan and I explain that a "mistake" or "accident" can still be a war crime: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05...
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Erin A. Snider
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"An Egyptian soldier has been killed in an incident involving Egyptian & Israeli troops in the border area near Rafah. The Egyptian & Israeli militaries are investigating what happened.Israeli media say there was an exchange of fire but there are few other details & no reports of Israeli casualties"
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Megan O’Toole
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‘All the people burned’: Horrific scenes are being reported from a Gaza hospital after Israel bombed a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah, in an area designated as a safe zone.
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Saeed Jones
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“Thousands of children, women and families chose this area because Israel claimed that it was a safe area.”
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this is just barbarism
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Erin A. Snider
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"As bands of teenagers become the arbiters of who can and cannot pass along main roads in the West Bank, any trucks carrying food have become vulnerable to attack. “The environment around us is fed by hate & revenge,” said Abdo Idrees, chairman of the Federation of Palestinian Chambers of Commerce."
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Rima I Anabtawi
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American surgeon Dr. Samer Attar joins Chris Hayes after spending two weeks volunteering at hospitals in Gaza—including at Al-Awda Hospital in Northern Gaza. “It's just an apocalyptic landscape of rubble, and hunger, homelessness, bombardment,” says Attar.
www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...
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Chris Hayes
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Keep trying and failing to communicate just how abject, how dire things are in Gaza.
www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...
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Bearded Stoner
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Democratic strategists agreeing to be interviewed by Chotiner is a pretty on-the-nose indictment of "Democratic strategy" as such.
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Diana B. Greenwald
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Any discussion of the “day after” governance of Gaza must begin with Palestinian survivors and must center their existential safety, healing, rebuilding, their access to justice (if possible to imagine), and their political freedom. I don’t want to hear or read anything else.
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Erin A. Snider
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“Instead of looking at antenatal care for pregnant ladies, instead of looking at malnutrition, now we are looking at how to stop the bleeding,” Abed said in a phone interview, as an explosion rang out in the background. “That’s continuous,” he said. “Day and night.”
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Erin A. Snider
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“In their coordinated appeal, the leaders of the three countries emphasized that peace could only come through a two-state solution, so a Palestinian state needed to exist.”
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Erin A. Snider
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"The changes made by Egyptian intelligence, the details of which have not been previously reported, led to a wave of anger and recrimination among officials from the US, Qatar and Israel, and left ceasefire talks at an impasse. “We were all duped,” one of those sources told CNN."
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Again, it’s all part of Greg Abbott’s grand plan to kill as many people as possible
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Erin A. Snider
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What a sweetheart!
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