The Middle East Thread

https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1787478173984190655?s=46&t=wYI1UQq4Zm7qgLRSA8YMdw

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Most people really donā€™t get how insane the overreach is in the ASPA bill - not just rejecting ICC authority, but in fact awarding the US government the authority to compel the release of any allied personnel detained by ICC.

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https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1787559991852904457
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1787570034098741493

https://twitter.com/mugharii/status/1787563201267142677
I am speaking to you from east of Rafah, from within the evacuation zones. The vehicles are starting to enter from the eastern border. The situation is very bad, and the bombing and fire belts are continuing and do not stop. Plane bombing, artillery shelling, lighting bombs, Apache planes supporting the vehicles, shooting, the sound of the vehiclesā€™ movements inside the Rafah borders. Oh God, we entrust ourselves to you. .

https://twitter.com/mugharii/status/1787563443668566150

Note that for individuals caught up in warfare, the scale will always seem very large. It may be in fact be small. Too early to say.

KSA statement:
https://twitter.com/KSAmofaEN/status/1787550678514126976

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https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1787565128298504418

Lol. No shit, Sherlock.

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https://twitter.com/VivaRevolt/status/1787588841345286306

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1787577418980434166
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-will-not-support-rafah-offensive-currently-envisioned-by-israel/

https://twitter.com/VivaRevolt/status/1787596706168606878
https://twitter.com/DrHamami/status/1787600260149244287
https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1787596909407830142

https://twitter.com/2023gazawar/status/1787599001321181538
https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1787605161382146541
https://twitter.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1787604129516335458

(map is based only on reports in the Arab media and tbh, i doubt itā€™s precise at current.)

https://twitter.com/LucBernard/status/1787604615888081380

https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1787608628419043764
https://twitter.com/War_Takes/status/1787619684545683654

Israel has taken control of and has closed the Rafah crossing. Karem Salom crossing is also closed.

Note the shift here from Hamas to Gaza.

https://x.com/Lazar_Berman/status/1787572352823304474

Is there a bigger scumbagā€¦

According to a foreign diplomatic source familiar with the negotiations, the outline Hamas accepted Monday night is, at its core, the same as the Egyptian proposal which Israel has already approved.

About six months too late. Better late than never, I guess :person_shrugging:

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Fixed

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Nothing new, still very damning.

Aljazeera used to have several journalists in Gaza but Iā€™m seeing only one (Hani Mahmoud) in the last few days.