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Even if a solution for peace is found to end the conflict between Hamas and Israel, any transitional authority will need to reckon with the militant group's large footprint in Gaza.

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 28, 2024

A total ‘de-Hamasification’ of Gaza may be a bad idea

A peace plan needs to reckon with many difficult questions: Who will rebuild Gaza; who will pay for reconstruction and who will adjudicate any war crimes.

The Houthis benefit Iran because they command a large country with plenty of remote locations to fire missiles from and are in close proximity to some of the world’s main energy sources.

COMMENTARY

Jan 14, 2024

The Houthis are now Iran’s most potent proxy

For the wider world, responding to the growing Houthi menace will require much more than naval flotillas to the Red Sea.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog's claim all Gazans are responsible for Hamas' actions ignores the iron grip the group has over the strip and how isolated its people are.

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 8, 2023

No, Gazans can’t rise up against Hamas

Claiming all Gazans are responsible for Hamas’ actions ignores the iron grip the group has over the strip and how isolated its people are.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 19, 2023

Iran wants to make a deal the U.S. must refuse

Khameini thinks he has the leverage for an agreement easing punishment while keeping Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. The response should be sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 26, 2023

I saw America snatch defeat from victory in Iraq

Few of us who were on the ground couldn’t imagine that the Iraq war could go so well, or the peace so badly.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 13, 2023

Ukraine must rewrite Russia’s narrative in the Global South

Ukraine has won the West’s support in the war against Russia. But to ensure victory, it will need the developing world’s, too.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 19, 2023

India’s BBC raid is just the Modi government’s latest attack on the press

The West has indulged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while he has coerced and subverted his country’s media.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 9, 2023

Erdogan has undermined Turkey’s earthquake response

President Erdogan’s paranoid policies against civil society have weakened the very institutions Turkey needs to deal with the devastating earthquake.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Dec 1, 2022

The soccer world must protect Iran’s team

After losing to the United States in World Cup, Team Melli returns home to a hostile population and a vengeful regime.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 15, 2022

Expect more hostage diplomacy from a desperate Iran

Recent episodes involving foreigners should be a warning to Western governments that their citizens are an easy target for a regime facing mounting domestic and international pressure.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 6, 2022

Rwanda deserves U.K. censure over handling of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero

The Biden administration is pushing back against President Kagame’s treatment of u2018Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina. Boris Johnson should do the same.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

May 4, 2022

Africa becomes collateral damage of Ukraine war

The continent’s leaders have largely been reluctant to push back against Moscow, but their fence-sitting hasn’t spared them from the invasion’s fallout.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 30, 2022

The U.S. risks paying a high price for a nuclear deal with Iran

Removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s terrorist designation would buttress an already-dangerous organization.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 18, 2021

Why Iraqi Kurds are fleeing their peaceful homeland

Given that so many Iraqi Kurds are now seeking instead to escape from the region shows the extent to which hopes for economic and political opportunity in the post-Saddam Hussein era have evaporated.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 15, 2021

Iran drops the fig leaf of its nuclear fatwa

The decree was always more political than religious - designed to provide cover for whatever nuclear course was expedient for Tehran at any given time.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 10, 2021

Biden can break from Trump and Obama on Iran

Biden has space to pursue an Iran policy that is neither a reaction to Trump’s nor a straightforward continuation of Obama’s.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Dec 28, 2020

A dismal year everywhere was even worse for Iran

After a year in which the regime has failed on every other front, it will almost inevitably double down on its only other source of legitimacy: its visceral anti-Americanism.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Dec 23, 2020

Erdogan’s political challengers are getting tougher

Neither investors nor the general public seem to be buying Erdogan’s promise of a new economic era for Turkey.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 29, 2020

Iranian nuclear scientist killing will have fallout

The killing certainly has some of the hallmarks of a campaign of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, attributed to Israel: four were killed between 2010 and 2012.

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 23, 2020

Ethiopia’s prime minister trades his Nobel Peace Prize for civil war

We may be long past holding laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize to its lofty standards — the cruel cynicism of Henry Kissinger and open bigotry of Aung San Suu Kyi are just two instances of honorees behaving dishonorably — but Abiy Ahmed’s belly flop from the pedestal is nonetheless remarkable....

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.

What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival

By Alex K.T. Martin

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