Adam Lammon

Senior Editor @BrookingsFP ✍🏻 West Asia watcher. Organizer @BrookingsUnion. Views my own opinion. He/him

[Adam Lammon @AdamLammon]

Happy to announce that I am joining @BrookingsFP after more than four years at @TheNatlInterest. Very much looking forward to what this next chapter brings.

[Matthew Petti 👨‍🎓 @matthew_petti]

I did not realize how deranged and dystopian the Israeli surveillance regime in southern Lebanon was before the current war. Sending drones *inside* people's houses with loudspeakers...

[Matthew Petti 👨‍🎓 @matthew_petti]

The report seems to imply that Israel was bugging the phones of U.S. troops sent to defend Israel.

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

One of Trump’s truth-speaking moments: "You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

[Ben Freeman @BenFreemanDC]

"At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before."

Here's the story: 🧵

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

In Gaza, all men of military age were deemed legitimate targets.

“And military age is really open to interpretation,” said Jonathan.

“It could be from 16 to 60 or even younger...Most of the people that my unit killed were not armed.”

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

דו"ח האו"ם: כוחות הביטחון הישראליים אנסו ופגעו מינית בשנה האחרונה ב-31 פלסטינים, בהם 10 ילדים
https://t.co/xbmWyqC1PC

[Shibley Telhami @ShibleyTelhami]

Actually, Van Hollen specifically says: "Democrats should pursue a last-gasp effort to salvage a two-state solution. If that effort fails, the US will have to consider other options to secure equal political and legal rights for all" - boldly hinting at one state with equality.

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Notable that two leading Democratic Senators, Van Hollen and Schatz, have now called for a Democratic foreign policy housecleaning.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel has turned its prisons into a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care and abuse in everyfacility they are held in. Some have also been severely sexually assaulted. Since October 2023, at least 84 Palestinians have died in these torture camps.

The policymakers, and primarily Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, brag in TV puff pieces and on social media about what is happening in these torture camps.

Today, we published “Living Hell”, a report on the situation of Palestinians in Israeli custody. It is based on the testimonies of Palestinians released in recent months, along with research, reports, news updates and Israel Prison Service figures, and continues our previous report on the issue, “Welcome to Hell”, from August 2024.

Systematic, deliberate abuse continues to define Israel’s policy toward Palestinian prisoners in its custody, and is another feature of the Israeli regime’s coordinated onslaught on the Palestinian people.

Link to the full report > https://t.co/vHSdH4GFsG

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

History teaches us that stupid wars launched by fading empires accelerate their decline.

[Suzanne Maloney @MaloneySuzanne]

Despite some tactical success, Operation Epic Fury ends w/historic strategic setbacks for US interests: a stronger, more radical (& soon richer) Iranian regime; decades of US-GCC security cooperation undermined; depletion of key US munitions; prolonged global economic disruption.

[Adam Lammon @AdamLammon]

@matthew_petti Congrats, Matt!

[Dr. Annelle Rodriguez Sheline @AnnelleSheline]

The fact that no one at this level resigned, even as it became undeniable that the Biden White House was enabling genocide in Gaza, says a lot about Democrats, and specifically the ones in power under Biden

[Adam Lammon @AdamLammon]

There is a clear pattern, and it isn’t new.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Sumud flotilla activists -- who come from Europe, the US and elsewhere -- have released a statement that Israeli authorities subjected them to abuse, sexual violence and in multiple cases, rape. This hasn't been confirmed. https://t.co/RyvDxDmvNV

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Exactly. What too many Democrats just can't seem to understand is that this is not just about Biden's policy or winning certain voters. It is about whether the Party understands what is happening in the world, whether it has a moral framework, and whether it has credibility to fight for anything.

[Justin Logan @JustinTLogan]

Incredible scoop from John, with a blistering blind quote:

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, there has been a “sea change in public opinion” across the Middle East, write @AmaneyJamal and Michael Robbins. “People in the region have lost nearly all confidence in a U.S.-led regional order.” https://t.co/muZQ5FRuvK

[Erika Solomon @ErikaSolomon]

Our @nytimes report finds there was a second Israeli base in Iraq's desert. At least one dated back to the June '25 war. Israel chose Iraq for these covert ops due to US role in Iraq's security affairs. The shepherd who exposed the first base was killed.
https://t.co/glHgZ0ZtPL

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

It’s beyond serious dispute that civilian harm was not just an unfortunate consequence of Israel’s strategy in Gaza, it is part of that strategy. Alarms were sounded both internally and externally. Jake muted them. This performative handwringing is disingenuous and offensive.