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Foreign policy reporter. Bylines in @GuardianUS , @NYMag , @washingtonpost . Contributing editor, @TheProspect . jonathan.guyer @gmail .com Signal: Jonathan.59
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President Biden has at times been progressive on domestic issues and creative on foreign policy.
But on Israel-Palestine, he's stuck in his own box.
Without an immediate change of course, the destruction of Gaza will be Biden's only legacy.
My cover story for
@TheProspect
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Biden says that United Nations Security Council members should refrain from use of the veto except in the case of rare situations.
Reminder: The US has vetoed more than 40 UN resolutions on Israel — about half the times the veto has been used.
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I am here outside the New York Public Library, which is holding a 100th birthday party for Henry Kissinger tonight.
The guest list is secret, but I've confirmed that Secretary of State Tony Blinken will attend.
I'll be here on the red carpet, documenting who else shows up.
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Your occasional reminder that Henry Kissinger, at 100, is advising the Biden administration.
This week
@SecDef
&
@DepSecDef
met w/ members of the Defense Policy Board to discuss the current landscape of global security challenges and opportunities. More Here:
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Alaa Albaba, the Palestinian artist, from the series "The Camp" (2023).
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National security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke at a think tank this AM. He was caught on a hot mic talking Russian yachts.
"You know what the craziest thing is: When we seize one, we have to pay for upkeep. The federal government pays for upkeep, under the forfeiture rubric..."
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New: The ADL's own experts in extremism say the organization is overstepping the meaning of antisemitism to support Israel.
"The ADL has a pro-Israel bias and an agenda to suppress pro-Palestinian activism," one current staffer of the organization tell The Guardian.
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I crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-birthday party
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If I were Jake Sullivan, I would simply not meet with MBS on the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's assassination.
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It's curious, perhaps even scandalous, that this event is private -- and closed to the press.
We don't know who is hosting it.
The library passed me on to an event planner who wouldn't comment; neither would Kissinger's team. State Dept didn't reply.
So I'm here to find out...
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"Rafah Tents"
By Emad Hajjaj, the Jordanian cartoonist
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While you weren't looking:
Saudi Arabia is hosting a massive gathering of military contractors, its inaugural World Defense Show.
Here's Crown Prince MBS visiting Lockheed Martin's booth.
Yes, this is the same Lockheed whose US-made missiles are killing innocents in Yemen.
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Celebrating Kissinger?
Who historians say is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in Southeast Asia and prolonging the Vietnam war, for supporting military campaigns in Pakistan, Indonesia, Argentina, Chile...
You do not got to hand it to him.
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"The peace activists are war activists," Palantir's CEO told a room of government officials, military contractors, and tech bros. "We are the peace activists."
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1. Big tech and the Pentagon are teaming up, and new defense-tech startups are getting more government contracts than ever. I took a close look at Biden’s transition, and all signs show that he's cementing the marriage of Silicon Valley and the military.
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What is there to celebrate about Henry Kissinger?
That's what I just asked Secretary of State Tony Blinken outside of his predecessor's 100th birthday at the New York Public Library.
No comment.
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"... Some people are basically being paid to maintain Russian super-yachts on behalf of the United States government. It's unbelievable."
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We only know about this star-studded private party at the New York Public Library for Dr. Kissinger because it was on Tony Blinken's schedule.
Transparency rules!!!
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The military-industrial complex wishes you a Happy MLK day!
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Four years after Khashoggi's killing, the rehabilitation of MBS is complete—and Goldman Sachs is all in.
Here is former Obama State Department official Jared Cohen with Trump adviser Dina Powell in Saudi.
The kingdom is "in control of their own geopolitical destiny," he says.
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A week after the U.S. government approved an $85 million Raytheon missile sale to Chile, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's disclosures went online.
Austin's Raytheon shares are worth over $700,000. He also received $126,000 in director's fees from the weapons maker last year.
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Happy Pride from the Edelman, the PR guy helping the Saudis.
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"I am here to sound the alarm about a psychopath, killer, in the Middle East with infinite resources, who poses threat to his people, to the Americans and to the planet," Saad Aljabri, the former number two in Saudi intelligence, tells 60 Minutes.
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If you're worked up about Hunter Biden's laptop, wait till you hear about Jared Kushner's $2 billion friendship with the Saudi crown prince.
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The US is good at getting involved in wars and not as good at getting out of them.
Biden has committed almost $30 billion of military aid to Ukraine, with advanced weapons ratcheting up as the war objectives creep.
Is Ukraine America's new forever war?
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Just had a chat with Ambassador Dick Viets, who worked across the Mideast. Since he was a foreign service officer, he has known Dr. Kissinger.
The ambassador says "Henry's New York friends" will attend. He suggested the host is Wall Street titan Henry Kravis. Need to confirm.
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So who came out to celebrate Henry Kissinger's 100th?
Billionaires, Biden's people, and many a retired diplomat.
If you have insights into what was said inside the room, I'd love to hear from you.
And for more on Kissinger, please read my latest:
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"She loves this klepto-capture stuff," says Sullivan, apparently discussing his wife, Maggie Goodlander, a senior adviser to Merrick Garland.
Garland is too cautious as AG as compared to how he was as a judge, Sullivan seems to say.
"She's like, c'mon man, we gotta..."
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Jared Kushner does not want to talk about Jamal Khashoggi.
Spotted in Manhattan this morning at the "Impact on Humanity" Summit hosted by an offshoot of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.
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Robert Kraft, ceo of the Patriots, tells me Kissinger epitomizes American values, having fled the Nazis.
"He shows all the values of America," he tells me.
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The Ukraine war presents frightening implications for stomachs in the Middle East.
—Egypt and Turkey rely on combined Russian/Ukrainian imports for 70% of their wheat supply.
—Yemen, Libya, and Lebanon rely on Ukraine for much of their wheat supply.
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1. Can this be explained as a frantic PR attempt to recast Biden from war-monger to peace-maker?
The war has now gone on 7 weeks, and the Palestinian suffering is undeniable. White House has said there are no "red lines" for Israel.
Now, a scramble to depict Biden as statesman?
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At Davos tomorrow, a panel about how great Saudi Arabia is.
The chair?
Fred Kempe, president of the Atlantic Council think tank.
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Cool. Is the US doing this under an authorization Congress passed in 2001 or what?
We are at war in Syria, but American lawmakers haven't debated it and the public barely knows.
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"Murder in Laos" -- read the article by Daniel Ellsberg that got under Kissinger's skin
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Kissinger has been feted much this spring in honor of his 100th birthday.
Some of the best coverage has come from
@IChotiner
who asks plainly, what is there to celebrate?
New Interview: I talked to Ted Koppel about his journalism on Henry Kissinger, his friendship with Henry Kissinger, and how the media has treated Kissinger, who just turned 100 years old last month.
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Heidi Grant is leaving the Pentagon on November 7 ... and starting at Boeing on November 8.
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The District of Columbia has unveiled Jamal Khashoggi in front of the Saudi embassy.
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Last night, national security adviser Jake Sullivan delivered a keynote on the Middle East at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy.
It was long and perhaps the clearest articulation yet of a pretty rudderless approach to the Middle East.
Here are 10 points to draw out:
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Fellow traveler Bill is recognizing a whole lot more big guns than I am.
This "celebration" of Dr. Kissinger is closed to the press. Like last month's party for him at the Economic Club of New York, it seems I'm the only reporter here.
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Sometimes I just sit and think about this drawing by Hegazi, the late Egyptian cartoonist.
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Saudi Arabia just announced it has been investing in 60 venture capital and buyout firms and 19 startups.
I reached out to all of them with a simple question: How does this investment align with your company or firm’s values?
No one wanted to talk.
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Gen. David Petraeus arrives and isn't in a chatty mood.
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Guess who's fired up about the Secretary of State's visit to Saudi Arabia?
Lockheed Martin...
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Not sure if Tony Blinken is already here or went through the back entrance of the library.
What we do know: Blinken has admired Kissinger since the 80s.
Here's a revealing tidbit from a Politico profile about his college years:
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Kissinger's legacy?
"Everything, everywhere all at once," says former Rep. Jane Harman, who attends with her longtime partner Bob Dickey.
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Even a former Israeli prime minister says that protesting Netanyahu is imperative.
He calls on Biden to step up.
Ehud Olmert also spoke about US Jews' split from Israel, the occupation of Palestinians, and whether Israel is becoming an apartheid state.
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Prof. Graham Allison studied at Harvard with Dr. Kissinger well over a half-century ago.
"I was introduced at a recent event as his oldest -- slowest -- continuously learning student."
He tells me that his old prof is the most significant statesman of the 20th century.
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Hi, Jim Baker.
Hi CIA director Bill Burns.
Hi Mayor Bloomberg, too.
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It's no coincidence that SBF was a featured speaker at MBS's rehabilitation fest in a swish Manhattan hotel this fall.
If you're surprised by the crypto boy-king veering into unethical territory, maybe you weren't paying attention.
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A bit rich:
Semafor cofounder speaks about media trust ... at MBS's personal think tank.
Jamal Khashoggi was not available for comment.
Growing distrust in news sources varies depending on media type, says
@semafor
Co-Founder and CEO
@justin_b_smith
.
#ImpactOnHumanity
#FIIPRIORITY
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While we wait for Tony Blinken, read this essential piece by
@nickturse
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“It’s an order, it’s to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. You got that?” -- Henry Kissinger.
Experts say that Kissinger may be responsible for as many as 150,000 Cambodian deaths.
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Broken thread continues here - tough to vox pop and tweet at once!
Hi, Jim Baker.
Hi CIA director Bill Burns.
Hi Mayor Bloomberg, too.
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The Pentagon is partnering more and more with private investors.
That comes with thorny ethical concerns.
I look at the Pentagon's newly launched Office of Strategic Capital, where some wear two hats—working for the DOD while holding private sector jobs.
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Biden’s foreign-policy team is taking shape.
And a little known corner of Washington—strategic consultancies—will define a President Biden's relationship to the world.
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New: Biden's team says it's working "relentlessly" to get aid into Gaza amid warnings that 2 million people are at risk of famine.
But Secretary Blinken did not secure major gains on his recent Israel trip.
And humanitarian envoy David Satterfield spent the holidays in Hawaii.
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"Afghanistan didn't fail because of one or two tactical events. It was the overall strategy that was faulty,"
@vali_nasr
said. "So both Republicans and Democrats, Bush and Hillary Clinton, they’re responsible...We have to take responsibility as a nation."
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First, a bomb threat against a panel featuring an Iranian American journalist at UChicago.
Now, some photoshop genius smears diplomat Rob Malley.
The level of vitriol being spewed at some of the most sober and thoughtful Iran experts and policymakers in the US is sickening.
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Here's a weird thing: Military contractors can write for Washington magazines without any transparency.
Stanford Prof. Amy Zegart serves as a board director of drone-maker Kratos, which had $205 million of revenue last quarter.
But readers would have no way of knowing that.
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A special hello to Eric Schmidt, the billionaire former CEO of Google, who has co-written a book with Dr. Kissinger.
He wasn't in the mood for an interview with me from way down the red-carpeted stairs.
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Zume, Silicon Valley's robot pizza-making startup, is shutting down despite $445 million of funding.
H.R. McMaster, who worked as Trumps' former national security adviser, has served on Zume's advisory board.
A snippet from McMaster's 2020 book "Battlegrounds":
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Also spotted: Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York.
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Your correspondent has discovered four more WestExec consultants who have senior jobs in the Biden administration.
If you haven't been keeping track: the boutique advisory firm founded by Secretary of State Tony Blinken has placed at least 15 people in the halls of power.
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Important factoid at the bottom of this revelatory report:
"The Japanese government has also financed the $250,000 annual salary for retired Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to work for the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think tank, records show."
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Want to understand how Washington works?
Karl Eikenberry served as US ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011, after a 35-year career in the Army.
Now he works as a "senior advisor to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defense on its defense and military transformation plan."
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