News and Analysis 7/17/25

“While Florida officials have remained mostly silent about the death, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, asked Israel to ‘aggressively investigate the murder’ of Musallet, calling it a ‘terrorist act’”:

“Syrian troops … dispatched to the Sweida region to quell fighting between Druze fighters and Bedouin armed men … ended up clashing with the Druze militias” …

… and have now been withdrawn:

“[E]xperts say the effort between Israel and Iran was more intense and more targeted than anything that had come before, and seen by millions of people scrolling on their phones for updates even as bombs fell”:

The mistake “was quickly reversed, but triggered widespread anger, mistrust, and ideological debate across Syrian and Palestinian communities”:

“Visibly Muslim female journalists are especially subject to microaggressions, stereotyping, and pay disparities”:

“Rather than empowering Iran’s reformist bloc, … [veteran foreign service officer Alan] Eyre stated that the recent conflict was ‘more likely making this regime more militaristic, more isolationist, emphasizing also the security aspect of it’” …

… and now “Iran is threatening to raise uranium enrichment to weapons-grade levels and exit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Western powers move forward with reimposing United Nations sanctions”:

Israeli war crimes continue:

“Jews were a racialized ‘other’ in Europe during the early modern period and through the Holocaust, but as soon as you have the foundation of Israel, these white Ashkenazi Jews … became the foot soldiers of white supremacy”:

Iran says, “Seventeen suspects, including the captain and crew of the foreign tanker, have been taken into custody,” but has not given “the identity and nationality of those arrested, or the name of the tanker and the flag under which it is registered”:


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