Séamus Malekafzali
Brothers in Arms | On the UAE’s Israel Model
Séamus Malekafzali
On May 4, the United Arab Emirates’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a condemnation of recent Iranian strikes on Emirati territory. The UAE “will not tolerate any threat to its security and sovereignty under any circumstances,” the Ministry promised, and “it reserves its full and legitimate right to respond to these unprovoked attacks.” The communiqué came less than a month after the UAE’s air force had partially disabled, via airstrike,...
Be Grateful | Trump’s Latter-day Neoconservatism
Séamus Malekafzali
On October 13, international representatives gathered in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in the southern Sinai Peninsula. Sharm el-Sheikh had been occupied by Israel from 1968 to 1982, and suffered a major al-Qaeda attack in 2005; now President Donald Trump was there to ink an agreement that would end what he described as three thousand years of conflict in the Middle East. In keeping with such a momentous occasion,...
