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Barnett R. Rubin

Writings from Barnett Rubin on Israel/Palestine, Afghanistan, and more. The stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

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Division and Dissent in the Afghan Taliban

This report documents in detail everything I have been hearing for the past five years about the serious disagreement in the Taliban, from top to bottom. Because of its importance, I am reproducing it here in its entirety.

Rift at top of t...

4 months ago
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Blowback 2: Killing of civilians in vehicles

In a previous post I showed how night raids have come from Kandahar to Chicago. Next up: killing civilians in a vehicle “perceived as a threat.”

Today The New York Times reports:

An ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on We...

5 months ago
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Zohran Mamdani: Rooted Cosmopolitan

Yesterday Zohran Kwame Mamdani took the oath of office as mayor of the City of New York, his right hand raised, and his left hand posed on two historic copies of the Quran, held by his wife Rama Duwaji.

Here on substack, Kahlil Greene obs...

5 months ago
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Gaza: The Reckoning

Courtesy of Omer Bartov, who shared this with his subscribers, I am belatedly sharing this essay by polymath BRUNO MAÇÃES. Perhaps it will give me the strength to find the words to express my own thoughts.

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5 months ago
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"We Have Talked Enough about Ourselves," by Benjamin Moser

I have not posted in a couple of months, because I have become engrossed in a new project. I also stopped writing because I began to feel that even though my writing condemned the genocide in Gaza and overall project of finishing the ethnic...

5 months ago
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  • Barnett R. Rubin

    Barnett R. Rubin is a political scientist who has worked at Yale, Columbia, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center on International Cooperation at NYU, the U.N. and the U.S. State .Department. He now writes on Gaza and related matters.

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