On Tuesday, the UN General Assembly begins its general debate Tuesday morning, with various heads of state, including Joe Biden, speaking in New York. See IPA news release from last week: “UN Demands Israel End Occupation,” which featured legal analysts available for comment as events develop.

CommonDreams reports: “Calls for U.S. Arms Embargo as Israel Kills Nearly 500 in Lebanon.”

Protests are being held in DC and New York City today. On Thursday, major protests are planned around the UN under the banner of “Arrest Netanyahu.”

BASHIR SAADE, bashir.saade@stir.ac.uk, @bashir_saade
Saade is author of Hizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance (Cambridge University Press) and is available for a limited number of interviews.

MOHAMAD BAZZI, mohamad.bazzi@nyu.edu, @BazziNYU
Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and is a journalism professor at New York University. He just wrote the piece “Opinion: Israel’s growing war with Hezbollah is traumatizing Lebanon. There’s only one path to peace,” which states: “Biden repeatedly failed to follow through on the most likely path to preventing a regional war: pressing for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, particularly by using U.S. leverage to withhold billions of dollars in weapons to Israel. … The road to de-escalation in the Middle East must begin with a cease-fire in Gaza.”