Pakistani Defence Minister’s offensive anti-Semitic comments calling Israel ‘cancerous’ exposes its credibility in playing the facilitator role in the war. It was only a matter of time before Pakistan’s self-certified neutrality would come crashing under the weight of its own internal ideological contradictions. Transactionalism can only take you so far.
Lebanese civilians are the casualties in Israel-Iran war. This is the danger in nursing proxies
Israel’s bombing of Lebanon to decapitate Iran’s proxy network has mainstreamed an overlooked front. This is the danger in nursing proxies, distant or in the neighbourhood. Hezbollah was more powerful than the Lebanese state itself. Lebanese civilians are now suffering for what their governments allowed to thrive for so long.