Stepanakert now. There is an almost 100km line of cars from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia as the entire population flees. 120,000 people are leaving their homes.

Thunderous approaches to Piraeus this morning

Does anyone have any invite codes for the bsky place? This site is reaching/long ago reached (?) the point of uselessness

Back in Israel and the West Bank for a week of reporting on Israeli-Palestinian environmental cooperation. But yet more reminders that water/environment cannot be disconnected from a conflict’s wider dynamics. Iron Dome taking out a rocket a Gaza this morning over Jerusalem.

More rockets from Gaza over central Jerusalem just now, with one taken out by Iron Dome almost over the Old City.

Of all the stories I've read or heard the past few days, Amir Tibon אמיר תיבון's is the most remarkable—capturing the horror, the failures, the heroics, the hope, and the despair of this moment in Israel. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The discourse surrounding this Israel-Hamas clash is absolutely gross, decontexualized cheerleading for violence from some proponents of both sides, a willingness to gloss over the other's behavior in pursuit of adorably clean-cut narratives

If the region descends into all out conflagration, the man who bought this website, stripped it of most content moderation, and then boosted sensationalist blowhard accounts will have blood on his hands.

There's a horrific sense of inevitability to events since Sat's Hamas atrocities. Extreme retaliation from a 'post 9/11-esque' Israel->Mass Pal suffering-> Big global uptick in anti-Semitic (& some Islamophobic) rhetoric. Forget about morality for a sec. Where's the strategy?

Saying there's 'no military solution' can sound hippie-ish & is obvs out of line with the vengeful instinct that most global states would feel in Israel's position. But there genuinely isn't & the more you pursue a mil response the harder it is to eventually enact the non-mil one

A Reminder from Israel and Gaza on the Importance and Limitations of Environmental Peacebuilding newsecuritybeat.org/2023/10/remind… New Security Beat Middle East Program

Some reflections from Peter Schwartzstein on the role and prospects for environmental peacebuilding in what will likely be a profoundly changed environment in Israel, Jordan and the #OPT. newsecuritybeat.org/2023/10/remind…

Today on NSB | Climate Security and Europe’s Greens: A Match Made in Political Heaven? ECSP Global Fellow Peter Schwartzstein analyzes how European Green parties have pushed climate security forward while recent events threaten their electoral gains. 📖: buff.ly/3KDZ6Ge

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