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Global
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A
few weeks ago, The Conversation published a three-part podcast
series marking the 30th anniversary of the
Oslo Accords which sought to bring peace to the Middle
East and deliver a two-state solution to the decades-old
conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In it, leading
negotiators and intermediaries from that period lamented the
lost opportunity, and warned that matters were likely to
deteriorate, rather than improve.
That
deterioration came at the weekend, in the most rapid and
shocking way. The scale, speed and nature of the attacks
launched by Hamas from Gaza, across into Israel, were
unexpected. The targeting of civilians, killed or taken back
into Gaza as hostages, has been a grim hallmark of the
attacks.
Below,
you will find a series of reaction articles, commissioned by
editors in the US, Canada and Australia and written by experts
on conflict and the Middle East. In the days to come we will
of course publish more from across our network and in multiple
languages. And if you haven’t yet listened to the podcasts,
now would be the ideal time to listen in. |
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Stephen Khan
Global Executive
Editor | |
Yousef Masoud/AP
Eyal Mayroz, University of Sydney
Israelis
will consider it critically important to reclaim their
country’s military deterrence capabilities against Hamas,
which may necessitate a military takeover of Gaza. |
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Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University
The
bloody ground attacks by Hamas in Israel caused the
biggest shock. But the unprecedented scale of rocketry
and successful use of armed drones contributed to the
surprise.
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Ian Parmeter, Australian National
University
Hamas
named its action ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’, which
emphasises what it sees as Israeli acts of desecration
of a holy Islamic site in Jerusalem.
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Aaron Pilkington, University of Denver
The
Palestinian fighters who launched deadly attacks into
Israel on Oct. 7 are not Iranian puppets – but they
are doing the work Iran wants done.
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Dov Waxman, University of California, Los
Angeles
Failings
leading up to the Arab-Israeli War of 50 years ago
cost the then Israeli prime minister their job. Could
history repeat? | |
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Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
African
immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the
way race and racism affect daily life in the US. |
Andrew King, The University of Melbourne
The
preliminary global-average temperature anomaly for September
is a shocking 1.7°C. These are the drivers of current
record-breaking heat. |
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Carissa
Lee, The Conversation
Plus
a view on the Voice referendum from Canada. Listen to
The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Pardis Mahdavi, University of La Verne
Narges
Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin
Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains
locked up in Evin, Iran’s most notorious prison for
political detainees.
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Alexander Howard, University of Sydney
For
Jon Fosse, the fourth Norwegian to win the 2023 Nobel
Prize in Literature, writing has been a way of
surviving.
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Carlos Lopes, University of Cape Town
Many
sources of finance, including those from the World
Bank and IMF, don’t adequately cater for African
nations’ specific needs.
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Giulia Vivaldi, Queen Mary University of
London
COVID
isn’t the only respiratory disease to leave the
patient with long-term symptoms. Colds and flu can do
the same.
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Louise Archer, University of Toronto
Climate
change has affected food availability for polar bears,
which can impact polar bear mothers’ ability to
lactate. | |
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2023 10:32 AM
Subject: Attack on Israel only benefits one
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