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Washington wakes up to a Gaza force debate and a trade fight
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The American front pages, read from Palestine. Sunday's American papers stayed fixed on the widening Iran war — Hormuz tanker attacks, a Saudi pipeline strike, Gulf states meeting Iran on de-escalation — but two threads from Washington's foreign-policy press reached directly into Gaza and the West Bank's future.
The Quincy Institute's Responsible Statecraft carried Anchal Vohra's argument that the European Union, not Britain, holds the trade leverage that could actually move Israeli settlement policy — Britain's new import ban coordinated with eleven other countries, but the EU's own €43 billion-a-year trade relationship with Israel remains untouched by anything beyond sanctions on a dozen individuals.
FDD's Long War Journal, a hawkish voice on the region, reported Kosovo's 7 September signing to join the International Stabilization Force assembling for postwar Gaza, with Albania in talks to follow.
Middle East Eye's separate reporting carried the other side: eight UN experts calling the Board of Peace overseeing that force "illegal and illegitimate," and legal scholars rejecting Kosovo's own comparison of the mission to the 1999 intervention that secured its independence.
Away from Gaza's governance file, The New York Times and The Hill led their front pages on Iran's widening war with the US and its Gulf and Israeli reach, while Axios reported that Jewish institutions' security spending has topped $1 billion a year amid persistent antisemitic threats.
