Outside the Beltway

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.

More outrageous behavior.

Deadlnes make deals.

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Another setback for Teheran.

Another huge blow against Iranian’s regional strategy.

Peace, for a time.

Has the calculus of either side changed?

Is Sinwar’s assassination an opening?

Another one bites the dust.

After years of proxy battles, Israel and Iran are on the brink of a direct fight.

Breaking News

What we know a day later.

The Israeli military says they got their man after years of intelligence collection.

The leading scholar on the subject dissents.

Taliban Edition

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

My thoughts on what we know now.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

Massive numbers are taking to the streets in protest.

Israeli forces recovered their bodies.

Another step closer to a regional war.

A bold strike that threatens to escalate a regional war.

The fight has now expanded to a third front.

The war cabinet is gone. He now owns the war completely.

The moderates are gone.

Joy of four returned safe is mixed with the reality of scores of dead Palestinians.

The President declares Hamas “no longer capable” of large-scale attack.

Some 45 are dead in what Israel calls a “tragic accident.”

The UN body cites violation of the Genocide Convention.

A small, conscript-driven military has very different training and doctrine than ours.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

The Israeli government has no plan. Its defense minister does.

The release of a second set of figures has created a lot of hyperbole.

A Congressionally-mandated report finds “reasonable” evidence but acknowledges limitations.

Is Rafah the breaking point?

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

War crime does pay.

Neither side is willing to give up on its war aims just yet.

And you might ask yourself: “how did we get here?”

This is only “one alternative, and this is being murdered.”

It’s about time.

It was the least they could do.

Two related questions.

Some initial thoughts.

When does humanitarian catastrophe become something more?