KATHY KELLY, [email protected], @voiceinwild
Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War. She just recently wrote the piece “Who are the Criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab.” Also see Kelly’s other recent pieces: “A Moment of Hope in Gaza,” “Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide is Wrong” (which warns of the “Gazafication” of the West Bank) and “Winter in Gaza.”
Amira Hass writes in Haaretz: “The Final Expulsion of Palestinians Is Underway — and Your Indifference Enables It.”
See interviews with Jeffrey Sachs from Wednesday: “U.S. War on Iran — ‘An Attack Is Imminent.’”
In “The Coming War with Iran: Why This Escalation Path Is Structurally Plausible,” Elijah Magnier warns of an “Israeli alarmist narrative. … What is being revived is not new evidence, but an old pretext — one that has already been proven unfounded and is now being repurposed to manufacture consent for confrontation.”
David Hearst, executive editor of Middle East Eye writes in “Iran’s battle for survival is the Arab world’s fight too,” that: “The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group arrived within striking range of Iran on Sunday. F-15E Strike Eagles and B-52 bombers have been sent to Jordan and Qatar respectively. Israel’s Channel 13 reported that the U.S. military was preparing to reinforce its ground-based defences as well, with a Thaad air-defence battery expected to arrive in the coming days.”
Available to discuss the above assessments:
JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN, [email protected]
Loewenstein is former associate director of Middle Eastern Studies and senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has lived in and reported extensively on the Mideast. She appeared on the IPA news release “Netanyahu Meets Trump for Fifth Time this Year” in December.