Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowed that “very soon, Dahiya will look like Khan Younis,” publicly acknowledging that the genocide in Gaza is now Israel’s model for violence across the region.
When Ro Khanna made a sharp joke in response to an AIPAC smear, David Frum didn’t see politics but 3,000 years of Jew-hatred. That is hasbara culture in action.
With the world’s attention focused on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Israel is making conditions unlivable for Palestinians in the West Bank. Residents say that every Israeli measure to “strangle” Palestinians feels like it’s “irreversible.”
After 15 months of a fragile ceasefire, Lebanon woke up on March 2 to the familiar sounds of Israeli bombs. As the violence escalates and tens of thousands are displaced, Lebanon’s social divisions threaten to worsen an already dire situation.
Iran’s retaliatory attacks on its neighbors, and the U.S. failure to plan for them, are forcing the Gulf Cooperation Council states to reconsider their regional strategies and their relationship with Washington.
For years, Israel used the “Dahiya doctrine” in Gaza. Now it’s using the “Gaza doctrine” in Dahiya — and Tehran.
A war powers resolution intended to rein in the Trump administration’s war on Iran failed in the Senate. Groups are already promising to primary any Democrat who supports the war.
Israel is emerging as a central theme in the upcoming midterms, with one of the clearest examples being Illinois’s 9th district Democratic primary.
Even those familiar with the biased U.S. mainstream coverage of the Middle East are shocked at how bad the reporting on the U.S.-Israel war on Iran has been.