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Three years into Israel's genocide in Gaza, Palestinian human rights lawyer and legal scholar Noura Erakat argues that Donald Trump's Board of Peace is about more than Gaza: it's a blueprint for a new world order.Drop Site's Sharif Abdel Kouddous speaks with Erakat, a professor at Rutgers University, about her Boston Review essay, "Exit and Exception." Erakat argues that the Board of Peace matters less for whether it succeeds than for what it reveals: a political project, driven by market fundamentalists and a tech elite, to exit international law and popular democracy altogether. She traces that project from the charter cities and special economic zones championed by figures like Peter Thiel to Gaza, which the Board's charter designates as a special economic zone and where Palestinians are described as "Gazans" rather than a people with a right to self-determination.
Israel, she argues, has long been the model, claiming that Palestine is a legal exception where the rules that apply everywhere else do not. Erakat also traces the Board's roots in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose militarized aid sites became death traps for starving Palestinians.
She also describes her arrest last month at a Palm Beach County public hearing, where she came to testify against the county's more than $1 billion investment in Israel bonds.
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On this week’s episode of the War Brief, hosts Sarmad Jawad and Murtaza Hussain break down the most critical military and foreign policy developments across the Middle East and Eastern Europe over the past week.
In Yemen, Ansarallah, also known as the Houthis, continue their rapid advances across western Yemen, moving to encircle the city of Taiz and firming up their control control over the vital Bab al-Mandab Strait. As Saudi Arabia reportedly plans a major military offensive against the group with the support of regional countries, Ansar Allah is establishing facts on the ground in their battle to control Yemen.
In Gaza, the Israeli military has continued to carry out strikes killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza—including deadly strikes targeting journalists and members of Gaza’s small Christian community. According to most recent figures, Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded at least 1,431 Palestinians killed and 5,026 wounded since the October 2025 ceasefire.
In Europe, Moscow has issued a direct warning to NATO, threatening the use of its full military arsenal—including nuclear weapons—if Western operations isolate the militarized exclave of Kaliningrad.
Meanwhile in Iraq, U.S. allies in Iraq feel betrayed by Trump's withdrawal of forces from the country, even as many ordinary Iraqis celebrate the withdrawal.
Despite claims from Donald Trump, Tehran firmly maintains control over the Strait of Hormuz, striking eight oil tankers in just five days. Iran is preparing contingency plans for an escalated conflict, including likely targeting of naval and aerial support bases like those on the Indian Ocean island Diego Garcia.
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From leaked reports showing the U.S. Army preparing potential options around Cuba to the U.S. Navy’s strategic tactical shift away from the Iranian blockade line, Murtaza Hussain and Sarmad Jawad analyze what’s driving these moves—and what Trump’s post-midterm foreign policy strategy could look like.
Plus, a look into Iran’s updated terminal guidance missile capabilities, the human toll aboard US naval deployments, and how $100+ oil prices are shaping negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz.
Then a deep dive into the rise of China in the Trump era as Xi Jinping pays a state visit for the first time in 10 years.
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Eight months into the US-Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz is still contested—and the oil shock nearly everyone predicted never arrived.
Gregory Brew, senior energy analyst at Eurasia Group and a historian of modern Iran, explains why crude sits in the $90–$110 band instead of $250: alternative pipeline routes, high global inventories, a steep cut in Chinese imports, and an oil market practiced at absorbing shocks. He also breaks down the US escort operation moving 9 to 10 million barrels a day through the strait—supertankers running dark through the Omani channel—and why he calls it a Band-Aid.Also: the attack on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, Iranian production down to 2 million barrels a day, record US diesel prices ahead of the midterms, and why Brew expects Tehran to escalate rather than capitulate.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro: Gregory Brew on the Oil War
0:22 Why the $250 Oil Catastrophe Never Came
4:59 7-Day Regional Oil Exports Average ~17 Million Barrels
9:18 Supertankers Going Dark Through the Omani Channel
11:41 How Long Can US Navy Keep Up Its Escort Operation Through Strait?
15:08 Qatar's LNG Problem
17:46 Yemen and the Attack on the East-West Pipeline
22:47 Iran's Oil Is Running Out — Will It Capitulate?
30:42 How Iran May Escalate
35:13 Diesel at Record Highs and PossibleExport Ban
39:37 Global Economy: Can it Absorb Another Year of This?
43:55 The Future of US-Iran Relations
48:55 A Divided GCC and the Case for Accommodating Iran
51:25 Closing
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In this week’s episode of The War Brief Murtaza Hussain and Sarmad discuss the steady stream of leaks coming out of the War Department, the real number of deaths to U.S. personnel, the high and ongoing price of war against Iran, Saudi Arabia potentially turning to Israel for aid, how Ansarallah managed to shoot down a F-15A fighter jet, and more. Murtaza then discusses why Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Arab states, cannot put together an effective fighting force.
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