Middle East correspondent @csmonitor Non-Swift Taylor Hoper of Far-Flung Hopes thetaylorluck.com https://substack.com/@taylorluckhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lznirfc66c2jThe contradiction at the heart of #Gaza’s hunger crisis is stark. On paper, aid deliveries are rising; in practice, #Israeli bombardments, displacement, and collapsing infrastructure mean families still go hungry. It means #famine still stalks #Palestinians https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0924/Gaza-starving-flee-Israel-military25 Sep 2025 08:09 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lznirfc66c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lxa2rbanjc2nForeign media outlets rely on Gazans to risk their lives daily for their reporting, yet absolutely nothing is done to protect them from being killed in Israeli strikes. Any journalist worth the title should be ashamed. #journalismisnotacrime #gaza #israel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/journalists-among-people-killed-by-israeli-strike-on-gaza-hospital25 Aug 2025 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxa2rbanjc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lvnuu4p6c22f#Israel has the power to avert #famine in #Gaza. Will it use it? @csmonitor.bsky.social https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0804/gaza-famine-aid-israel-starvation05 Aug 2025 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvnuu4p6c22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3ls77r4jjpc2yIran state TV reports that the Iranian parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital chokepoint in the Persian Gulf through which 20% of the worlds oil and thousands of cargo ships pass through. #Iran #Israel #US #Trump https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/06/22/iranian-parliament-reportedly-approves-closing-hormuz-strait-media-22 Jun 2025 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls77r4jjpc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lrundgiefk2mPresident #Trump is reportedly leaning towards entering the #US into #Israel's war on #Iran. Can #Arab states, led by the Gulf, change his mind? @csmonitor.bsky.social #SaudiArabia #UAE #Gulf #Jordan https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0617/israel-iran-war-trump-gulf-arabs18 Jun 2025 08:57 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrundgiefk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lrs3mpscbc2ndon't forget #Gaza that is all.17 Jun 2025 08:35 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrs3mpscbc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lridfezaf22iThe next 24 hours will determine whether President #Trump’s “military strikes as negotiation leverage” with #Iran will become a strategic success or a historic failure that haunts the Mideast, and America, for year to come.13 Jun 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lridfezaf22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lriappao322iAfter a period of emergency, calm has returned to #Amman. The #Jordan army reports it has knocked down #Iranian drones and missiles over the kingdom (heading to #Israel). But make no mistake: #Arab countries are in the direct firing line of #Israel-#Iran war and have the most to lose.13 Jun 2025 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lriappao322ihttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lrcwuxvfhk23Lawrence of Arabia bombed the Hejaz Railway. #Syria is working to get it running again. My latest in @csmonitor.bsky.social https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0606/syria-hejaz-ottoman-railway-revival11 Jun 2025 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrcwuxvfhk23https://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lqa7qop7lk24My latest on #Substack: In the Ashes of the Axis of Resistance, a Mideast Axis of Cooperation Rises https://open.substack.com/pub/taylorluck/p/in-the-ashes-of-the-axis-of-resistance?r=4t1zsg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false28 May 2025 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqa7qop7lk24https://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lq566sp33s24Amid the ashes of #Iran 's Axis of Resistance, a new Mideast alignment rises: the Axis of Cooperation https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0523/saudi-iran-arab-moderates-axis-cooperation #Syria #SaudiArabia #UAE #Jordan #Iraq #Lebanon27 May 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq566sp33s24https://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lpqtf6jnak26Syrian business owners who for years worked around sanctions to turn a profit by hook or by crook are now eyeing a meteoric rise. "We are in a transition from North Korea to South Korea,” says Mohamed Al Hafi, of Al Hafi Cousins Trading Company. #Syria #Trump https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0521/syria-economy-optimism-us-eu-sanctions22 May 2025 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpqtf6jnak26https://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lp5e7g3t6s2nI am open minded, but even I didn't have Trump calling Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa an "attractive guy" on my Middle East Bingo card. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/trump-meets-syria-president-after-lifting-us-sanctions14 May 2025 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5e7g3t6s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lni66izqwk25In the wake of militant cell activity, #Jordan bans the Muslim Brotherhood as an "illegal movement", seizes its property and bans any political or media entity from working with the dissolved Brotherhood or spreading its ideology. Jordan's largest opposition movement is banned. Expect arrests.23 Apr 2025 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lni66izqwk25https://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lnfwbna5qk2eThe Islamic Action Front- the political arm of #Jordan 's Muslim Brotherhood- announced it has frozen the party membership of three individuals wanted in the case of a sleeper cell producing missiles in Jordan. https://www.khaberni.com/news/705511-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D8%B6%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9-3-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%87%D9%85-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD22 Apr 2025 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnfwbna5qk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lmupfqe6a22r#Jordan has busted an alleged Muslim Brotherhood/ #Hamas linked cell manufacturing missiles in the kingdom. Should Jordan ban the Brotherhood in response, it will be the biggest political development in the kingdom in nearly 30 years. https://www.almamlakatv.com/news/166524-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%B6%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A915 Apr 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmupfqe6a22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/taylorluck.bsky.social/post/3lmk6pf5d6s2cI am happy to share my latest analysis on #Substack The Anti- #Hamas Protests in #Gaza: What it means, how to look beyond the spin, and the new narratives emerging from Gazans retaking the public sphere. https://open.substack.com/pub/taylorluck/p/gazas-anti-hamas-protests-a-new-narrative?r=4t1zsg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web11 Apr 2025 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:seuarkcqu76vsh2ccknrdq2v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmk6pf5d6s2c