The cost of living
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by Issandr El Amrani
2y ago
In an effort to (slowly) restart this blog, I am logging readings, stray thoughts and commentary in a diary format every few days. Bear with me. The Economist Intelligence Unit says Tel Aviv is the most expensive city in the world: Cost of Living Index 2021 | Economist Intelligence Unit Tel Aviv had previously been in the top 10, and the EIU says it rose to the number one spot (ahead of well-known spendy cities like Paris or Singapore) chiefly because of "its soaring currency and price increases for around one-tenth of goods in the city, led by groceries and transport, in local-currency terms ..read more
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Succession Mubarak style
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by The Editors
2y ago
This is almost making me nostalgic. Well done, sir. Someone had to do it pic.twitter.com/XlqrT752Iu — Glall (@AhmedGlall) November 30, 2021 ..read more
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Amjad Iraqi on anti-BDS legislation
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by The Editors
2y ago
This is an outrageous attack on freedom of speech and political organization: Late last month, the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee approved the latest version of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which is now one step closer to becoming law. The bill was introduced to Congress in March 2017, with the aim of prohibiting American companies from assisting international governmental organisations with boycotts against Israel. These organisations include the UN, whose high commissioner for human rights was tasked two years ago with drawing up a database of companies doing business ..read more
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Biden's "unexpected powers of resistance" against the blob
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by The Editors
3y ago
David Bromwich, writing in the London Review of Books on Biden’s foreign policy nerve: On the face of things, Biden has surrounded himself with the conventional advisers of the Clinton-Obama circle – Jake Sullivan, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Thomas Donilon, Ash Carter, Michèle Flournoy. It is hard to imagine any of them straying far from the Cold War groove of shepherding Nato against Russia and finding a field for occasional military exercise in a humanitarian war. Yet Biden in the past has shown unexpected powers of resistance: he sided with Douglas Lute and General Cartwright, against Hill ..read more
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“He has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
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by The Editors
3y ago
Robin Wright, writing in The New Yorker on Biden’s foreign policy chops: For all his experience, however, Biden has also backed controversial policies and made bad calls during his decades in foreign policy. As a senator, he opposed authorizing Operation Desert Storm, to oust Saddam Hussein’s Iraq from Kuwait, in 1991; it succeeded with lightning efficiency. He then supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003; it was an epic failure that dragged on for years. In 2006, he co-authored a widely criticized Op-Ed in the Times that proposed the division of Iraq into autonomous Sunni, Shiite and Kurd ..read more
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Links April-May 2020
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by The Editors
4y ago
Belated linkdump… The American Virus | LRB Elliot Weinberger on Trump and Covid. No Bark, No Bite | Jewish Currents Peter Beinart: "With each passing week, it becomes clearer that Joe Biden’s victory over Bernie Sanders is making it easier for Israel to annex the West Bank." Biden 'completely' opposes withholding aid to Israel over West Bank policy, adviser says - Haaretz This is the Obama/Biden legacy on Israel: say you'd prefer things were different but do absolutely nothing about it. It amounts to endorsement of annexation. The US Goes to Bat for Lebanon’s “Butcher of Khiam” - Just ..read more
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Links up to 11 March 2020
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by The Editors
4y ago
Trying to get into the habit of posting these links again, so clearing up the backlog… Egypt jails prominent political figure for a year over 'false news' - Reuters About Zyad Elelaimy. While GERD’s Reservoir Remains Empty, Tensions Rise in Dam Dispute – The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy From Harvard Medical Student to Detained Egyptian Activist | The Crimson From Harvard Medical Student to Detained Egyptian Activist | The Crimson Lebanon’s GDP declines to $44 billion from $55 billion | Daily Star Saudi Arabia escalates oil price war with plan to maximise supply | Financial Times Riy ..read more
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Links 1-30 November 2019
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by The Editors
4y ago
Tab dump. Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings Iraqi Prime Minister Resigns in Deepening Political Crisis | NYT Sudanese protesters demand justice for killed and missing. |Middle East Eye Saudi Aramco flotation to rely on local money. | FT "Saudi Aramco’s stock market flotation will rely almost exclusively on local money" What the ‘Danish Lawrence’ Learned in Libya | NYR Daily Fred Wehrey. A few things you might like to know about us | Mada Masr Lina Attalah: Here is the backstory to the piece that contributed to getting us into ..read more
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Links 16-31 October 2019
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by The Editors
4y ago
Egyptian government documents: Officials in Cairo tried to cover up arms deal with North Korea | Washington Post Probably a senior military official's arms trade deal (Libya?)Another Birthday Behind Bars: The UAE’s Unjust Imprisonment of Ahmed Mansoor – POMED Joe Stork The spectre of Syria silenced Arab protest. But now it’s finding its voice | Guardian Nesrine Malik Egypt to press for outside mediator in Ethiopia dam dispute - Reuters Sisi wanted the US to play this role over the last year. Now he will be pressing this... while in Russia Why Washington Cannot Abandon Military Intervention | F ..read more
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Links 1 September - 15 October 2019
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by The Editors
4y ago
Resuming the long-interrupted link dumps… A Reporter From Hell | Tablet Quite a piece by Armin Rosen on Syria and Nir Rosen - it over-complicates things, but a good read.The Emirati Lobby: How the UAE Wins in Washington | Center for International Policy A new report by Ben Freeman Pullback Leaves Green Berets Feeling ‘Ashamed,’ and Kurdish Allies Describing ‘Betrayal’ | NYT To be fair, US betrayal of Kurds came in increments, not just now, and clearly coming Has UAE gone too far in lobbying against Al Jazeera? The UAE is reportedly seeking to have Al Jazeera registered as a foreign agent in th ..read more
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