Laura Rosbrow-Telem

This is one of the hardest things I've ever reported on. Grateful to those who shared their stories with me at this time of turmoil.

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🎉 Thank you @ApplePodcasts for featuring @ForeignPolicy's "The Threshold" under "New Shows" in the U.S. and Canada. It means a lot! Hosted by @bonsuman, The Threshold is about how to end the world's deadliest infectious diseases. 🔗Listen on Apple here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Between 10,000-15,000 dead Palestinians are presumed buried under rubble of their own homes in Gaza. Where is the outrage and assistance to find them? Israel's insistence on return of deceased hostages, as important as it is to those families, is a red herring.

🎙️New Podcast Alert! @ForeignPolicy's newest podcast, The Threshold, is a seven-part series about the fight to end infectious diseases, hosted by @bonsuman. This episode is about how to end HIV, with reporting from @leahkahunde. It's quite moving. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

"The Threshold" is a new @ForeignPolicy podcast about the fight to end infectious disease. The science has never been more promising. The politics, not as much. What will it take to eliminate HIV, TB, and malaria within our lifetimes? Trailer out now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

We are literally watching our Gaza correspondents starving live on TV, watching their bodies go thinner and thinner, their faces paler and paler, the look in their eyes sadder and sadder. This is unforgivable. History will not forgive us for having let this happen. Shame on us

I want to answer with facts, not talking points. First, Israel chose to bypass all known and effective relief efforts and establish their own, with US support. I explained a month ago why that was doomed to fail 1/@TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/international/…

Please get us out of here! I've spent the past 10 days speaking to over 40 Palestinians in Gaza about a variety of subjects related to the war in the Strip. Here are the three most pressing issues that came up: 1. Hunger is the worst it’s been: GHF is a failure, most civilians can’t access it, and aid is sold in markets because there’s nothing else coming in, so the whole local economy is dependent on whatever is delivered through it. People expected text messages, ID-based distribution, orderly collection, and a new, functional system, but instead ended up with a deadly patchwork of chaos and ineffective pandemonium that made it impossible for those in need to reach aid, particularly in northern Gaza, given the geographic concentration of the distribution sites. The feeling was that GHF is a token attempt to pretend that aid is still being provided, when the reality tells a different story. People go to GHF sites and wave/smile at staff not because they want to, but because they have no other options. 2. The erosion of the social fabric: the worsening conditions and the continuation of the war for as long as it has been going on have eroded and destroyed social cohesion and the fabric of society in unprecedented and previously unimaginable ways. Crime, theft, lawlessness, and chaos are the norm; sexual abuse and assaults of children are rampant, and women seeking aid/food for their kids/families are extorted for sexual favors; the mentality of everyman for himself is the default and that transpires the most in the acquisition and distribution of aid; and the morale of the entire society, beyond exhaustion, is one of apathy that’s driven by survival instinct. 3. A desperate desire to leave Gaza: 100% of Gazans I spoke to expressed a clear desire to leave Gaza immediately and pursue a life elsewhere. Some vowed never to come back, some wanted to “let Hamas have it,” some believed that most Gazans haven’t experienced what “normal” is, and maybe it’s better that they leave and have their children or grandchildren come back. About a third asked if they would be able to come back eventually to reclaim their property or land plots. Overwhelmingly, the sentiments expressed blamed Hamas for destroying Gaza and for being partners with Netanyahu in the expulsion of Palestinians from the coastal enclave – still, they expressed disillusionment with the Palestinian national project and a lack of interest in losing their lives for continued and repeated mistakes, especially by ruthless and vile Islamist terrorists. This is the one topic where everyone asked me to help them get out, underscoring the tragedy of their suffering.

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Hi @kopalo. I am booking an episode about foreign aid/USAID for "Counterpoint," a @ForeignPolicy podcast hosted by @sasha_p_s. We'd really like to have you on the show. Happy to share more over email - laura.rosbrow-telem@foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/count…

Hi @wendyrsherman. I am booking an episode about JCPOA for "Counterpoint," a @ForeignPolicy podcast hosted by @sasha_p_s. We'd be honored to have you on the show. Happy to share more over email - laura.rosbrow-telem@foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/count…

Hi @ambchrishill. I am booking an episode about the Dayton Accords for "Counterpoint," a @ForeignPolicy podcast hosted by @sasha_p_s. We'd love to have you on the show. Happy to share more over email - laura.rosbrow-telem@foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/count…

Foreign Policy released a profile of my journey today after months of conversations with Amy Mackinnon (@ak_mack), who followed my work, saw me in action, and spoke to friends and allies. It's full of stories, vulnerabilities & complexity. @ForeignPolicy foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/01/ahm…

"Syria is free." Extraordinary moment as @clarissaward and her team witness a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret prison in Damascus. Left alone for days without food, water or light, the man was unaware Bashar al-Assad's regime had fallen.

My God. @clarissaward & her team find a prisoner still in #Assad’s Air Force Intel HQ in #Damascus, abandoned alone in a cell. 2 days after the prison was thought to have been emptied. Watch this.

.@ForeignPolicy published a sweeping new profile of Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to be the next top intel official Among the details: - her questioning young Syrian girls at refugee camp about whether they were really bombed by Assad's air force - paying political consultant who shared ties with her to a religious movement that some former members described as a cult - fears in Congress over whether she would out identity of famous 'Caesar' whistleblower who brought to public evidence on Assad's war crimes - amplifying Russian propaganda by promoting those claims of US biolabs in Ukraine The Trump transition team has defended Gabbard's record: - On the religious group, Alexa Henning, a spokesperson for the Trump transition team, said that while Butler is one of Gabbard’s spiritual mentors, she has no affiliation with the Science of Identity Foundation or any religious group - Henning said account on Syrian refugee girls was 'false' - And response to criticism from former senior intelligence officials: “These unfounded attacks are from the same geniuses who have blood on their hands from decades of faulty ‘intelligence,’ including the non-existent weapons of mass destruction,” Henning said

What does the 2nd most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes, think about the state of gender equality? Find out what @ecb President Christine @Lagarde has to say on our season premiere of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women, a @ForeignPolicy hosted by @reenaninan

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says Israel is 'a step away' from annexing West Bank after Trump's election victory #855870773" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

If he was Jewish or Israeli, it would be a major headline about a terror attack