While the U.S. and Israel share a goal of weakening the one state that has challenged their joint agenda in the Middle East, Israel’s desire to achieve regional hegemony by any means necessary may not fare well for the U.S. and its own interests.
As Israel plans on occupying southern Lebanon and replicating its Gaza onslaught, Lebanese society remains deeply divided. Israel is exploiting these differences to tear Lebanon apart — its political system, state institutions, and social fabric.
Walid Khalidi may be remembered as the diplomatic gentleman-scholar who became one of Palestine’s greatest historians. But he was also a teacher, a leader, and a pioneer whose life was entirely devoted to and consumed by the question of Palestine.
Israel is cracking down on Palestinians in the West Bank and pushing the territory to the brink of a major conflagration. Here’s why.
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.
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.
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.
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has been built on lies. Here is the truth about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the claim that Iran was an imminent threat, and the lie that Trump has a plan for what happens next.