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Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border near Misgav Am, June 12, 2023. (Photo: Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua) (Credit Image: Ayal Margolin/Jini/Xinhua via ZUMA Press/APA Images)
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Israel is implementing its Gaza strategy in Lebanon: turning ‘buffer zones’ into permanent borders

By Qassam Muaddi April 4, 2026 3

Israel has stated it does not plan to leave Lebanon even if the current ‘war’ ends. If the Gaza model is any guide, Israel appears to be moving toward expanding its border into Lebanon.

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    • Israeli police watch as Palestinians pray outside the Old City of Jerusalem on the first day of Eid Al Fitr. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and other holy sites have remained closed since the start of the war with Iran on February 28, marking the first time the mosque has been shuttered for the holiday since 1967. (Credit Image: © Oren Ziv/dpa via ZUMA Press APA Images, 20 March 2026)
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    • Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border near Misgav Am, June 12, 2023. (Photo: Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua) (Credit Image: Ayal Margolin/Jini/Xinhua via ZUMA Press/APA Images)
      Israel is implementing its Gaza strategy in Lebanon: turning ‘buffer zones’ into permanent borders
      Opinion April 4, 2026
    • Scenes from the Israeli demolition of two Palestinian homes in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, just south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, on June 4, 2025. (Photo: © Saeed Qaq/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Wire APA Images
      When they come for the homes
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    • Donald Trump taking questions from the media at Palm Beach International Airport on March 23, 2026. (White House photo by Molly Riley)
      Trump has no good options to resolve the disaster he created in Iran
      Opinion April 3, 2026
Donald Trump taking questions from the media at Palm Beach International Airport on March 23, 2026. (White House photo by Molly Riley)

Trump has no good options to resolve the disaster he created in Iran

By Mitchell Plitnick April 3, 2026 8

Trump faces a disaster of his own making in Iran. He had no plan to address Iran’s predictable retaliation, including closing the Strait of Hormuz, but even if he did, he faces another problem: Israel, his disastrous choice for a partner in crime.

Rabbi Eliot Cosgrove, left, interviews MirYam Institute CEO Benjamin Anthony at the Park Avenue Synagogue on March 20, 2026. (Image: Screenshot)

Prominent New York synagogue hosts presentation on why U.S. Jews should support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

By Philip Weiss April 2, 2026 13

Benjamin Anthony’s speech at New York’s influential Park Avenue Synagogue, where he argued that U.S. Jews need to support ethnic cleansing in Gaza, illustrates how the American Jewish community has embraced Israeli racism and brutality.

U.S.-Israel War on Iran

Donald Trump taking questions from the media at Palm Beach International Airport on March 23, 2026. (White House photo by Molly Riley)

Trump has no good options to resolve the disaster he created in Iran

By Mitchell Plitnick April 3, 2026 8

Trump faces a disaster of his own making in Iran. He had no plan to address Iran’s predictable retaliation, including closing the Strait of Hormuz, but even if he did, he faces another problem: Israel, his disastrous choice for a partner in crime.

Donald Trump attends the transfer of six U.S. servicemembers killed in the Middle East, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. (Official White House Photo by Abe McNatt)

The U.S. and Israel’s diverging interests will prolong the war, but Iran will determine its outcome

By Mitchell Plitnick March 26, 2026 3

A month into the Iran war, it is clear that Israel aims to disrupt any possible off-ramp the Trump administration and Iran may be looking for to end the fighting, and that Iran, not the U.S., is the key actor that will determine how the war ends.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman addressing the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League in Riyadh, on November 11, 2024. (Photo by Saudi Press Agency)

Anger in the GCC spreads as Iran retaliates over U.S.-Israeli strikes

By Mitchell Plitnick March 20, 2026 15

These are signs of the growing impatience of Iran’s Arab neighbors with Iran’s tactic of striking at them in response to Israeli or American attacks. But the anger of the Gulf states isn’t only reserved for Iran.

Aftermath of the Israeli commando operation in Nabi Chit, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, March 7, 2026. (Photo: Screenshot from AP Youtube Channcel)

This Lebanese village resisted two Israeli commando drops last week. Here’s why Israel is targeting it.

By Layla Yammine March 19, 2026 2

As Israel expands its ground invasion of southern Lebanon, village residents in the eastern part of the country have participated in resisting two separate Israeli commando drops this month. Locals and experts say it’s a prelude for a wider invasion.

Oil facilities in Tehran on fire after U.S./Israel air strikes. March 2026 (Source: Social media)

How might the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran fail? 

By Bassam Haddad March 15, 2026 4

Every week the U.S.-Israeli war grinds on without a decisive conclusion becomes a lesson in the limits of U.S. power. A campaign initially meant to reinforce U.S. and Israeli supremacy may instead signal its decline.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting an Israeli Air Force base in southern Israel to meet Israeli and U.S. pilots taking part in the war on Iran, on March 5, 2026. (Photo: x.com/IsraeliPM)

Israel’s goal in Iran is not just regime change, but complete collapse

By Kate McMahon March 9, 2026 16

For Israel, a failed Iranian state fractured by civil war is preferable to any other outcome. They don’t want to just change the regime in Iran, they want to collapse the state itself.

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Yasmeen al-Jamala holds her newborn son, Adam al-Ustaz, who receives treatment at al-Rantisi Children's Hospital in Gaza City after being bitten by a rat inside a displacement tent, March 28, 2026. (Photo: Moiz Salhi/APA Images)

‘The rat gnawed my baby’s cheek’: Gaza tent encampments face rodent infestation

By Tareq S. Hajjaj April 3, 2026 0

The residents of crowded tent encampments in Gaza now suffer from an infestation of rodents that bite people in their sleep. This week, a one-month-old baby was mauled in the cheek, leaving him in “critical condition,” doctors say.

Plot to assassinate Palestinian activist follows harassment campaign promoted by Zionist groups and elected officials

By Michael Arria April 2, 2026 1

The plan to assassinate Nerdeen Kiswani was the result of a years-long harassment campaign against the activist, carried out by a wide network of Zionist organizations and elected officials who have promoted violence against Palestinians.

Rabbi Eliot Cosgrove, left, interviews MirYam Institute CEO Benjamin Anthony at the Park Avenue Synagogue on March 20, 2026. (Image: Screenshot)

Prominent New York synagogue hosts presentation on why U.S. Jews should support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

By Philip Weiss April 2, 2026 13

Benjamin Anthony’s speech at New York’s influential Park Avenue Synagogue, where he argued that U.S. Jews need to support ethnic cleansing in Gaza, illustrates how the American Jewish community has embraced Israeli racism and brutality.

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Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona, photographed by American reconnaissance satellite KH-4 CORONA on November 11, 1968. (Image: Wikimedia)

A brief history of the Israeli nuclear program, the open secret at the heart of the Iran war

By Anna Illing April 5, 2026 0

Israel’s nuclear weapons program was secretly developed with financial and diplomatic support from the West. Its nuclear arsenal, estimated at over 90 warheads, remains a leading driver of conflict across the region.

Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border near Misgav Am, June 12, 2023. (Photo: Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua) (Credit Image: Ayal Margolin/Jini/Xinhua via ZUMA Press/APA Images)

Israel is implementing its Gaza strategy in Lebanon: turning ‘buffer zones’ into permanent borders

By Qassam Muaddi April 4, 2026 3

Israel has stated it does not plan to leave Lebanon even if the current ‘war’ ends. If the Gaza model is any guide, Israel appears to be moving toward expanding its border into Lebanon.

Scenes from the Israeli demolition of two Palestinian homes in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, just south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, on June 4, 2025. (Photo: © Saeed Qaq/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Wire APA Images

When they come for the homes

By Palestine-Global Mental Health Network April 4, 2026 3

The recent military raid and eviction of 11 Palestinian homes in Silwan are part of Israel’s coordinated assault on the conditions that make psychological life possible: home, continuity, and the right to remain. We must resist.

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Israeli police watch as Palestinians pray outside the Old City of Jerusalem on the first day of Eid Al Fitr. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and other holy sites have remained closed since the start of the war with Iran on February 28, marking the first time the mosque has been shuttered for the holiday since 1967. (Credit Image: © Oren Ziv/dpa via ZUMA Press APA Images, 20 March 2026)

Weekly Briefing: Israel passes a death penalty law for Palestinians as the Iran war grinds on

By Dave Reed April 5, 2026 0

Israel’s new death penalty law targets Palestinians exclusively. Ben-Gvir celebrated with champagne. The Iran war has no end in sight.

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The Shift: Newsom flip-flops on Israeli apartheid comments

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Media Analysis

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Monday, September 29, 2025, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

The U.S. media is ignoring Israel’s efforts to torpedo Trump’s talks with Iran

By James North March 26, 2026 1

Why won’t the mainstream U.S. media report on Israel’s efforts to sabotage Trump’s efforts to end the war with Iran?

Joe Kent on the Tucker Carlson podcast (Screenshot, Youtube)

Instead of taking Joe Kent’s claims seriously, the media is disregarding him as an antisemite

By Philip Weiss March 20, 2026 16

Despite the seriousness of the claims made by Joe Kent – that Israel dragged the U.S. into war with Iran despite Iran posing no imminent threat – the liberal media is ignoring the real story by painting Kent as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.

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U.S. support for Israel continues to plummet, despite media’s best efforts

By Michael Arria March 10, 2026 21

A fake scandal involving Rama Duwaji’s Instagram likes reveals how desperate pro-Israel pundits are grasping at straws as support for the country plummets in the U.S.

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