Foreign Exchanges: the Podcast
Oct 12, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
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A second person was killed in that same province by previously unexploded IDF ordnance characterized as, quote, a foreign object, end quote, by state media.
In Israel-Palestine, the IDF killed at least eight people, including a child, in Gaza on Saturday, the one-year anniversary of the territory's current so-called ceasefire.
A group of more than 100 NGOs issued a joint statement on Friday, arguing that, "...the ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily, and restrictions on aid, equipment, and rebuilding materials preventing families from recovering." Elsewhere, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made it official late Friday, canceling the Palestinian elections that had been scheduled to take place next month.
He's postponed them until September 2027, so expect sometime around next August that Abbas or whoever is running the PA by then will announce another postponement.
The PA is in no shape to organize elections, but more than that, its unpopular ruling Fatah party would prefer not to risk control in a vote.
At his newsletter, Seamus Malik Afzali considers the third anniversary of the October 7th, 2023 Al-Aqsa flood attacks on the Middle East, and in particular on Israel and Gaza.
The genocidal campaign that has been visited upon Gaza has led to a shift in public opinion, with support for October 7th declining from 71% in early 2024 to 37% by mid-2025.
Belief that Hamas would win the war, however, has declined from a high of 50% in December 2023 to 20% in August 2026.
Former Gaza Minister of Culture Mohamed Al Madoun has gone further, suggesting that the operation should have been called off had its planners known what kind of destruction would befall the Strip.
The question for many of those who expressed this regret was not about the righteousness of the action.
As Abdel Hadi said, the difference in calculation would not be, quote, about the act of resistance and liberation itself, end quote, but about the cost, a cost that has left the Strip, in the words of Gaza's former Minister of Housing, quote, no longer fit for habitation, end quote.
In addition to being the world's largest open-air prison, a concentration camp as many described it even before the war, Gaza has now effectively become a killing cage, ever tightening as the yellow line encroaches without halt.
a population of millions fenced in on all sides, forbidden from fighting against their attacker, but exposed to weapons of mutilation and death.
A second person was killed in that same province by previously unexploded IDF ordnance characterized as, quote, a foreign object, end quote, by state media.
In Israel-Palestine, the IDF killed at least eight people, including a child, in Gaza on Saturday, the one-year anniversary of the territory's current so-called ceasefire.
A group of more than 100 NGOs issued a joint statement on Friday, arguing that, "...the ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily, and restrictions on aid, equipment, and rebuilding materials preventing families from recovering." Elsewhere, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made it official late Friday, canceling the Palestinian elections that had been scheduled to take place next month.
He's postponed them until September 2027, so expect sometime around next August that Abbas or whoever is running the PA by then will announce another postponement.
The PA is in no shape to organize elections, but more than that, its unpopular ruling Fatah party would prefer not to risk control in a vote.
At his newsletter, Seamus Malik Afzali considers the third anniversary of the October 7th, 2023 Al-Aqsa flood attacks on the Middle East, and in particular on Israel and Gaza.
The genocidal campaign that has been visited upon Gaza has led to a shift in public opinion, with support for October 7th declining from 71% in early 2024 to 37% by mid-2025.
Belief that Hamas would win the war, however, has declined from a high of 50% in December 2023 to 20% in August 2026.
Former Gaza Minister of Culture Mohamed Al Madoun has gone further, suggesting that the operation should have been called off had its planners known what kind of destruction would befall the Strip.
The question for many of those who expressed this regret was not about the righteousness of the action.
As Abdel Hadi said, the difference in calculation would not be, quote, about the act of resistance and liberation itself, end quote, but about the cost, a cost that has left the Strip, in the words of Gaza's former Minister of Housing, quote, no longer fit for habitation, end quote.
In addition to being the world's largest open-air prison, a concentration camp as many described it even before the war, Gaza has now effectively become a killing cage, ever tightening as the yellow line encroaches without halt.
a population of millions fenced in on all sides, forbidden from fighting against their attacker, but exposed to weapons of mutilation and death.
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