May 23rd, 20250Amid Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, and the harrowing images of starvation and genocide emerging from the devastated territory, international voices intensified last week, calling for urgent restraint against Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government. European leaders hinted at punitive measures ranging from economic boycotts to...
May 23rd, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid ongoing international accusations of genocide against Israel in Gaza, now entering its 17th month, tensions surrounding rising hostility toward Israelis have been reignited after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. were fatally shot during an attack in which the attacker reportedly...
May 16th, 20250Since the beginning of this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right cabinet ministers have maintained complete silence regarding relations with the United States. This coincides with Donald Trump’s first presidential tour, which he deliberately launched as an Arab Gulf visit, starting from the Saudi capital,...
May 9th, 20250As President Trump prepares for his upcoming visit to the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself stunned and cornered following Washington’s decision to withdraw support for Israel in its confrontation with Yemen. Netanyahu now stands at a crossroads: either comply with Trump’s demand to end the war on...
May 9th, 20250American voters want an end to the war in Gaza and for President Trump to withhold U.S. aid, if necessary, to pressure Israel to end it.
During last year’s campaign, Donald Trump promised big changes in U.S. Middle East policy. He said that the Gaza war never would have happened had he been president; promised he would end it; boasted...
May 6th, 20250Washington, DC. – In a surprising shift in both military and diplomatic posture, President Trump has announced a halt to American airstrikes in Yemen, citing a “reassessment of Washington’s Middle East strategy and a renewed focus on political solutions over military escalation.”
In an official statement issued by the White...
April 18th, 20250By Hafez Al Mirazi
Name: Nayib Bukele or Najib Boukailah — in ArabicTitle: President of El SalvadorAge: 44
Background:The beloved guest at the White House recently is Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, and the world’s only head of state of Palestinian descent currently in office.
His father, Armando Bukele (Boukailah),...
April 11th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprise visit to the White House dominated headlines about Middle East developments, yet it was President Trump who set the tone for the next phase in regional policy — one that Netanyahu, labeled by critics as a “war criminal”, found entirely unpalatable.
At the...
April 4th, 20250The phrase “civil war” is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli President Isaac Herzog is now an accepted possibility for much of Israel’s mainstream political society.
“(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu is ready to sacrifice everything for his...
March 21st, 20250WASHINGTON — The United States and Israel will hold high-level talks on Iran's nuclear program at the White House early next week, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The planned meeting follows President Trump's letter to Iran's leadership earlier this month in which he warned Tehran it had the choice of either...
February 28th, 20250On Wednesday, the U.N. Human Rights chief accused Israel of showing an unprecedented disregard for human rights in its military actions in Gaza and said Hamas had violated international law.
"Nothing justifies the appalling manner in which Israel has conducted its military operations in Gaza, which consistently breached international...
February 28th, 20250We have long argued that the Israeli war and genocide in Gaza must catalyze a change in the overall political discourse on Israel and Palestine, particularly regarding the need to free Palestine from the confines of victimhood. This shift is necessary to create space where the Palestinian people are seen as central to their own...
January 31st, 20250The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events.
The current analysis of the Israeli war on Gaza falls victim to this narrow thinking. The ceasefire agreement, signed between Palestinian groups and Israel under Egyptian, Qatari and U.S. mediation in Doha on...
January 26th, 20250
RAMALLAH — Hundreds of Jenin residents left their homes on Thursday, prompted by messages from drones fitted with loudspeakers, witnesses said, as the military demolished a number of houses on the third day of a major operation in the West Bank city.
The operation, involving large columns of vehicles...
January 17th, 20251Finally, on Wednesday, January 15, a detailed ceasefire agreement was announced, bringing a much-needed end to the suffering in Gaza after 467 days of brutal Israeli aggression. During this period, Israel employed all forms of killing and destruction, but Gaza’s resistance stood firm. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip endured unimaginable...
January 10th, 20250WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza.
The vote was 243 to 140 in favor of the "Illegitimate Court...
January 4th, 20250Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza have devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system and raised serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international law, the U.N. Human Rights Office said in a report on Tuesday.
The 23-page report, documenting various attacks between Oct. 12, 2023, and June 30, 2024, concluded that...
December 13th, 20240After more than six decades of Ba'athist rule of Syria, 54 years under the Assad family, and 24 years of Bashar al-Assad’s presidency, the Syrian regime crumbled in a matter of just 11 days. This dramatic turn of events was driven by a rapid advance of armed opposition groups from Idlib to Damascus, supported by Turkey, timed with...
November 29th, 20240
On Wednesday, tens of thousands of displaced Lebanese residents began returning to their homes in Southern Lebanon as a ceasefire was called, halting the fighting between Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah. After a nearly 14 month cross-border fight and Israel's invasion into Lebanon last month, with thousands killed, displaced and...
November 22nd, 20240The paradoxical phrase, “running away forward” is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now.
It seems that everything that Israel has done in the past year or so is a mere attempt to deny, distract from or escape imminent future scenarios – all of which are bleak.
Indeed, the last year...
November 22nd, 20241Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself under mounting international and domestic pressure as he continues his aggressive attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. Despite failing to achieve his stated war objectives, Netanyahu persists in his policy of "forward escape," attempting to deflect attention from his legal troubles. He is...
October 26th, 20240BEIRUT – An Israeli strike early on Friday morning killed at least three journalists and wounded several others as they slept in guesthouses used by media in Hasbaya in southern Lebanon, Lebanon's health ministry and local media reported.
Those killed were camera operator Ghassan Najjar and engineer Mohamed Reda of the pro-Iranian...
October 26th, 20240
Lebanon frontline and Israeli setbacks:
Over a month into Israel’s comprehensive and vicious military campaign against Lebanon, the Israeli army struggles to accomplish any significant gains along the northern border. Hezbollah forces, meanwhile, are not only repelling ground incursions but also intensifying their missile...
October 25th, 20240In October 2014, six months after the release of Notes from Outside the Truman Show, in which Condor referred to Israel’s “noticeably fragile democracy” containing “increasingly self-destructive elements”, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed the opening session of a conference entitled “From Hatred of the Stranger to...
October 25th, 20240Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different.
Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went as far as saying that his country is fighting on seven different war fronts, all driven by the...
September 20th, 20240Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the pager and walkie-talkie attacks against its members in Lebanon and Syria this week crossed “all red lines” and the group will retaliate and is undeterred in its fight against Israel in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
On Thursday, in his first televised speech since the...
August 30th, 20240San Francisco State University has begun the process of divesting from four weapons manufacturers currently involved in Israel's war on Gaza, in a move activists are describing as a "major victory" for Palestinian rights advocacy in the United States.
The announcement by Students for Gaza SFSU comes at a crucial time for the student...
August 30th, 20240Departing Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan clearly had an unpleasant experience at the world’s largest international institution.
In an interview published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv on August 20, the disgruntled envoy said that “the U.N. building should be closed and wiped off from the face of the...
