Okay I'm going to need someone to explain to me why Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, is at the Gaza ceasefire summit in Sharm
Gregg Carlstrom
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Gregg Carlstrom
@glcarlstrom
Middle East correspondent, @TheEconomist.
Author, 'How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within.'
Speaking engagements: bit.ly/4kgOjkt
- You Brits thought you could make the most embarrassing political decision of the year. Boy, did we show you.
- Time is a flat circle
🚨In the middle of VP Vance's visit to Israel, the Knesset passes in a preliminary reading a bill to annex the occupied West Bank - The CIA itself asked that the chief of staff's name be redacted because that person is... a CIA agent
It’s very clear Goldberg oversold what he had. But one thing in particular really stands out. Remember when he was attacking Ratcliffe for blowing the cover for a CIA agent? Turns out Ratcliffe was simply naming his chief of staff. - Wild story: someone took out an enormous short position against Israeli stocks five days before the October 7th attack, orders of magnitude bigger than normal trading activity and big enough to have made billions of shekels when the market crashed.
- A few half-formed late-night thoughts. Israel's room for maneuver on a ground invasion has just shrunk dramatically. Not just because it has lost a good deal of international support, but because the region is now boiling. 🧵
- A lesson from the Spanish flu: there's no trade-off between public health and the economy. The cities that saw business rebound quickest after the pandemic were the ones that took the strictest measures to protect their residents.
- Replying to @glcarlstromAnd finally, a thought for far too many people on here: you shouldn't celebrate anything in this fucking conflict. It always ends in tears.
- A lot of people seem hopeful that Netanyahu will use Sinwar's killing as an opportunity to declare victory, negotiate a hostage deal and end the war. But to believe that you basically have to ignore everything Netanyahu has said and done over the past year
- If you've never been to Gaza it's hard to grasp just how bleak it is. A whole generation now has grown up locked in a tiny enclave. They're coming of age in a place with no work, endless blackouts, barely any clean drinking water, and little prospect of getting out.
- Billions of dollars in military aid for decades and America still gets rebuffed on a request for some unused Kennedy-era air-defense kit because Israel is worried it might make Vladimir Putin mad
- A few thoughts on today, in no particular order. First, among Israelis: impossible to overstate the level of shock. The intelligence failure resembles 1973, but you almost have to go back to 1948 to find an analogue for the violence that played out in cities and towns. 🧵
- Israel told civilians to flee north Gaza, then bombed one of the only roads south: "The video, recorded along Salah Al-Deen road, shows bodies, including several young children, strewn along the road as black smoke rises from vehicles engulfed in flames."
- That works out to 70 grams (2oz) of food and 27ml (1oz) of water per person per dayThe IDF is continuing to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. As of yesterday, 665 trucks have entered Gaza, with deliveries of vital humanitarian aid: 📍Over 3,000 tons of food 📍Over 1,720 tons of medical equipment 📍Over 600 tons of equipment for temporary
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