Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 15, 2018

Galen Guengerich, Reuters: How to avert more death and despair in Gaza

Scores of Palestinians killed. Thousands wounded. That’s the toll exacted over the past seven weeks by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against protesters along the security fence separating Gaza from Israel. Unless the situation gets defused quickly, the carnage is likely to get much worse.

Since early April, weekly “Great March of Return” demonstrations have focused on the plight of more than 700,000 Palestinian refugees driven from their homeland in 1948. Exacerbated by the Trump administration’s move of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday – when 60 Palestinians died and about 2,700 were injured – and further fueled by Israeli independence anniversary celebrations and Tuesday’s Palestinian commemoration of Al Nakba (“The Catastrophe”), another catastrophe appears to be unfolding.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 15, 2018

Gaza bloodshed spurs global worry about US Mideast policies -- Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee, AP

Mobilizing for the Third Gulf War: Washington, Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Tehran face cataclysm -- Michael Klare, War Is Boring

Saudi Arabia Will Use Trump to Gain Leverage over the War in Syria -- Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest

Iran deal: The European Union's ugly options -- Teri Schultz, DW

Trump’s Iran decision gives unexpected gift to Putin -- David A. Andelman, Reuters

The Russian-Israeli-Iranian conundrum in Syria -- M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times

Abadi's Big Fail in Iraq as Sadrists Triumph -- Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post

‘Slow genocide’: Myanmar’s invisible war on the Kachin Christian minority -- Libby Hogan, The Guardian

Is Indonesia’s Widodo soft on security? -- Erin Cook, Asia Times

Turkey’s Balkan comeback -- Zia Weise, Politico.eu

Geopolitical Implications Amid Armenia’s Velvet Revolution -- Eduard Abrahamyan & Movses Ter-Oganesyan, National Interest

Germany’s Great European Heist -- Adam Tooze & Shahin Vallée, Project Syndicate

Hey, Big Tech, Don’t Abandon Uncle Sam’s Cyber Warriors -- Michael Steed, Defense One

We’re Forgetting Every Lesson From Iraq and Afghanistan -- David Axe, Daily Beast

The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy -- Monica Duffy Toft, War On The Rocks