'Time may be a game-changing factor in the Israel-Hamas war'
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The war in Gaza is at a tipping point
Sean Rayment in The Spectator
A "defining moment" may be coming in the war in Gaza, says Sean Rayment in The Spectator, with Israeli forces trapping Hamas in "ever-shrinking pockets of land". Time will be a "potentially game changing factor". While Israel attempts to ignore the "growing clamour" for the conflict to stop, Hamas knows the "longer it can hold out, the greater the chance of Israel agreeing to another ceasefire".
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Why all this Trump hysteria?
Martin Gurri on UnHerd
"What's an authoritarian anyway?" asks former CIA analyst Martin Gurri on UnHerd. Calling Trump this "won't even reach his sensory apparatus", but it could impact the "tens of millions of Americans" who voted for him, portraying them as "goose-stepping bigots – and you know full well that they're not". Instead, people should "relax". After all, Trump is "too old, too isolated, and too ADD to have a shot at dictatorship".
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Madeline Grant in The Telegraph
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Arnon Grunberg in The Guardian
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