Edward Carr

@SamuelJHyde11 Yes, I do agree with this. The left obsesses about Gaza, but passes over the slaughter of Iranians very easily

“In the first nine months after October 7, the New York Times published 6,656 articles about the Gaza War. That compared to 80 articles about the American-led battle to free Mosul [Iraq] over nine months in 2016-2017, [some] 198 articles about the Tigray War in Ethiopia, which killed 600,000 in a year, and 5,434 articles during the first 13 years of Syria’s civil war. One Microsoft Copilot Artificial Intelligence analysis found [that] between 50,000 and 70,000 articles about Gaza were written worldwide in nine months – compared to 1,000 articles about Mosul in nine months. The imbalance becomes even more bizarre at AP when extended further. Israel is covered by more full-time staff than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined, which is made up of dozens of countries, encompassing hundreds of millions of people, multiple wars, famines, mass displacement, and – in some cases – genocidal violence. If news coverage were meant to be a rational analysis, this is not. Even if news were merely supposed to be the coverage of suffering, power, and danger on planet Earth, this would still be indefensible. You cannot plausibly cover Israel more than an entire continent without warping the reader’s sense of reality. This is not accidental. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict occupies a peculiar and disproportionate place in the West’s political imagination, unmatched by conflicts that are deadlier. And so it becomes over-seen, over-examined, intensely dissected, and uniquely moralized until the examination itself becomes both activism and a substitute for understanding.”

@craigjcalhoun Prof Calhoun--I'm deputy editor of The Economist and writing an editorial on nationalism for this week. Might we speak? Ed

@burch_attack thanks, that's kind....ed

Is the Iran deal good or bad? See The Economist's take: #IranTalks tinyurl.com/mxkes6s

@LahavHarkov Hi, Lahav. Thank you for spotting our cartographic error. Pls see correct version here economist.com/news/briefing/…

#MH17 the evidence so far economist.com/blogs/easterna…

@BEP_reddit hi - this is me, verifying my identity for reddit. Ed

Think America is doomed to be a declining world power? See @TheEconomist on why it's on top--and will be for decades economist.com/news/special-r…

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#euro needed Draghi's lifeline. But the ECB cannot sustain intervention without political unity: that is getting harder economist.com/node/21559614

Gridlock Beijing-style. Excellent overview of the need for reform in China--and the difficulty of bringing it about nyti.ms/NhaY0c

Kadima threatens to quit Israeli government if no Haredi deal by Sunday. Argy bargy before court's Aug 1 deadline bit.ly/Nu00hT

Merkel may be pilloried at home for her #euro concessions; but she is still politically unassailable economist.com/node/21558580

Masterly account of why #euro summits fail from Steve Fidler and Matina Stevis on.wsj.com/O4HYms

How will the messy reality of governing change Islamists used to the moral certainty of suppression? See this FP book bit.ly/NctIfG

Irish exports disappoint, Portugal's court blocks cuts: now Greek minister goes. Accidents blow #eruo summit off course reut.rs/NjcIjx

France wary of a federal EU. It has always wanted the EU to magnify French power, not syphon power to Brussels on.wsj.com/NiXw61

Spanish bonds near 7%. Eurozone must manage 3 tracks: markets, economy + politics. All on different timescales. Each destabilises the others

Putin backs Assad as last ME Russian client. Watch for shift as he accepts inevitability of Assad going--because of Syrians, not the West.

Funniest-ever paper on nanomaterials chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules…