September 25th, 20260Page Six Hollywood recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago, a headline like this would have seemed unthinkable.
The article described an increasingly open struggle between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel forces within the entertainment industry....
September 24th, 20260BIRMINGHAM — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has endorsed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, saying the decision “wasn’t easy” amid opposition to the progressive candidate from some supporters of Israel over his advocacy for Palestinian rights.
Appearing on a local podcast, Nessel, Michigan’s...
September 18th, 20260Monday, September 14, marked 44 years since the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, and I have to admit I was amused sitting and listening to speaker after speaker praise his extraordinary “leadership”, “vision”, “courage” and supposed dream of a strong and sovereign Lebanon. Listening to these tributes, one might think Lebanon...
September 18th, 20260This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable — or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe.
On September 8, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. announced their intention to introduce national...
September 18th, 20260Middle East Weekly Briefing: September 11–17, 2026
War on Iran
Trump signals that the seven-month Iran war may be approaching an end
President Trump said on September 16 that the conflict was “hopefully” nearing its conclusion. He is expected to meet leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries during the upcoming...
September 11th, 20260There comes a point when military strategy stops being strategy and becomes obsession. Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have reached that point. For years, Netanyahu has presented himself as the indispensable guardian of Israel’s security, insisting that overwhelming military force is the only language Israel’s enemies understand. Yet...
September 11th, 20260The U.S. government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly — not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence. Washington is rapidly losing power and status in the Middle East, a decline that could produce a wider domino effect, reverberating around the world.
The latest expression of this...
August 20th, 20260Colombia's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point.
By becoming only the second country in the world — after the United States — to endorse Israel's illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signaled a complete reversal of Gustavo Petro's foreign...
August 14th, 20260Does criticizing actions of the Israeli government or its prime minister fuel anti-Semitism? Despite this argument’s stretch of logic and the danger its bizarre conflation presents to American Jews, some U.S. pro-Israel organizations are working overtime to establish the case that criticizing Israel puts American Jews at risk. Benjamin...
August 14th, 20260It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza.
During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu stated with unambiguous language: "Israel rejects the...
July 31st, 20261The words "killed", "injured", "maimed" and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.
Take, for example, a headline like: "13 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Others Wounded." Though many of us can still feel a deep sense of sadness over such a tragedy, the news itself becomes less shocking...
July 31st, 20260Evidence keeps piling up that the bipartisan consensus on U.S. support for Israel is dead. Signs appear almost daily that Israeli behavior and the pro-Israel lobby’s heavy-handed tactics for browbeating elected officials into unquestioning support for Israel are being rejected by both Democratic voters and elected officials. Events...
July 24th, 20260Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries.
The first incident occurred on July 8 when U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his delegation were detained by armed, illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West...
July 24th, 20260Several observations can be made regarding Rahm Emanuel’s recent speech at Tel Aviv University: what he said and didn’t say, and what impact (if any) his words might have.
Emanuel has been a fixture in U.S. politics for decades. After volunteering with the Israeli Defense Forces in 1991, he returned to the U.S. to work in the...
July 17th, 20260Watching elements of the Democratic Party establishment respond to insurgencies is fascinating.
After Senator Bernie Sanders won several early contests in the 2020 presidential nominating process, the establishment panicked. In 2016, Sanders had almost beaten their favorite, Hillary Clinton, before they put their thumb on the scale,...
July 17th, 20260Although the United States and Iran continued exchanging military strikes this week, with growing talk that the bilateral memorandum of understanding is effectively dead, several developments suggested that Washington remains eager to avoid sliding into a full-scale regional war.
The concern centers on the possibility that the conflict...
July 10th, 20260NEW YORK — A new national survey suggests that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, underscoring the growing complexity of political attitudes toward Israel within the American Jewish community.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
July 10th, 20260While millions of mourners participated in a six-day funeral procession honoring Iran's late Supreme Leader Sayed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding signed last week came under immediate strain as Washington and Tehran exchanged new military strikes amid a growing dispute over the future control of the...
July 3rd, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) that sought to limit President Trump's authority to involve American forces in military hostilities in Lebanon without explicit congressional approval.
The revised War Powers Resolution failed by a...
July 3rd, 20260In today’s Middle East, it’s important to recognize that Israel is completely out of control, and no one has the will to rein them in.
This should have been understood back in July 2024, in the waning days of the Biden administration, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington to address a joint session of...
July 2nd, 20260European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for human rights. That, of course, would hold true if she genuinely cared about such values herself.
In response to the June 19 signing of the memorandum of understanding between the United...
June 27th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States, Israel and Lebanon announced Friday that they have signed a framework agreement aimed at ending months of fighting along the Israeli-Lebanese border, marking what officials described as the first step toward a permanent ceasefire and a broader peace agreement. The announcement came as Hezbollah...
June 26th, 20260
Regime Change is a devastating new book from two New York Times reporters; an extraordinary account of American chaos and decline at the hands of a madman and his enablers. Read it and weep.
By Martin Pengelly
There are shocking headlines to be drawn from Regime Change, the new blockbuster by New York...
June 19th, 20260One hundred and ten days after the failed U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, a historic memorandum of understanding was signed remotely on June 17, between the United States and Iran to end the conflict between the two countries.
President Trump signed the agreement during a dinner at the Palace of Versailles in France...
June 19th, 20260Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know it. And his rivals — both within his coalition and across Israel's political spectrum — are preparing to capitalize on his growing weakness.
Former Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who also...
June 12th, 20260Gaza requires urgent international attention.
What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little...
June 12th, 20260WASHINGTON / TEHRAN / BEIRUT — After a week marked by military confrontation and intense diplomacy, President Trump announced what he described as a “great settlement” with Iran, signaling a potential turning point in a conflict that had threatened to engulf the broader Middle East.
The announcement followed two nights of military...
June 5th, 20260Despite repeated statements by President Trump predicting an imminent agreement to end the conflict with Iran, developments over the past week offered little indication of a genuine breakthrough. Instead, regional tensions remained high amid what political observers describe as determined Israeli efforts to undermine any potential deal...
