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With tedious regularity, I am accused of being a paid Israeli shill. It is what people reach for when they do not want to engage with what I have actually said. It is easier to imagine a transaction than an argument, easier to believe there must be a cheque somewhere than to accept that a person might look seriously at Israel, Gaza, Hamas, the West Bank, the IDF, Jewish history and Palestinian suffering, and still arrive at a position that does not fit neatly into cheap slogans.

Both my regular podcasts in one place! Here you can find my weekly chat with Shana Meyerson, A Paratrooper and a Yogi Walk Into A Bar, and special live editions of The Brink, with Jake Wallis Simons. Both my regular podcasts in one place! Here you can find my weekly chat with Shana Meyerson, A Paratrooper and a Yogi Walk Into A Bar, and special live editions of The Brink, with Jake Wallis Simons.

It is my pleasure to share with you another one of my occasional series of guest articles. This was written by DS, a veteran of multiple rotations in Gaza. I hope you enjoy this brilliant rebuttal of Haaretz’s recent article about moral injury in Gaza veterans. There’s a running joke among Gaza War veterans that people who’ve never been to Gaza read Haaretz to learn what’s going on there; those who’ve been there read Haaretz when they’re in the mood for some escapist fiction.

Today I spoke with an IDF reservist currently serving on the front line in Lebanon. He paints a frustrated picture. I have spoken to many IDF soldiers over the past two-and-a-half years, but I have seldom heard one sound so furious. He spoke about the IDF’s struggles with the drone situation and the soldiers’ anger at Donald Trump. Read on for this exclusive insight.

Both my regular podcasts in one place! Here you can find my weekly chat with Shana Meyerson, A Paratrooper and a Yogi Walk Into A Bar, and special live editions of The Brink, with Jake Wallis Simons. Both my regular podcasts in one place! Here you can find my weekly chat with Shana Meyerson, A Paratrooper and a Yogi Walk Into A Bar, and special live editions of The Brink, with Jake Wallis Simons.

Hezbollah has adapted, the ceasefire has collapsed into permanent low-level conflict, and Israel faces a brutal reality: securing the northern border may now require an unsustainable occupation. Hezbollah (or, indeed, Tehran) made its choice on 8 October 2023. The day after Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel, it opened a second front from Lebanon, launching guided rockets and artillery at Israeli positions in what it called solidarity with Palestinians.

Why the Islamic Republic interprets conflict, negotiation, and survival through the lens of Karbala, martyrdom, and sacred history rather than Western strategic logic Greetings from my post-Somaliland sickbed. Thank you for all the kind messages here and on X. I am happy to report that I am recovering. However, what better way to recuperate from illness than by writing an explanation of Twelver Shi’a psychology? I studied for an MSc in Psychology because wars are fought by people.

The war has moved past the fantasy of rapid regime collapse. The objective is narrower now. By now, the Iran war has entered its most dangerous phase. Not the opening shock, the first wave of leadership losses, or the early speculation about whether the regime would simply fall apart. That phase is over. The state absorbed the initial blows. It is damaged, more militarised, more isolated, and likely more brittle, but it has not collapsed.

Both my regular podcasts in one place! Here you can find my weekly chat with Shana Meyerson, A Paratrooper and a Yogi Walk Into A Bar, and special live editions of The Brink, with Jake Wallis Simons. Both my regular podcasts in one place! Here you can find my weekly chat with Shana Meyerson, A Paratrooper and a Yogi Walk Into A Bar, and special live editions of The Brink, with Jake Wallis Simons.