For decades, Gulf rulers mistook access to America for influence, but now, with the Iran war, they finally see they are viewed as disposable on the front lines of the U.S. empire.
Recent U.S. moves indicate that Donald Trump has finally recognized the disastrous mistake he made by listening to Benjamin Netanyahu and launching the war on Iran. Now he is looking to cut a deal, but Israel won’t make it easy.
Gaza is paying the price for the failed U.S.-Israeli wars across the Middle East. As the countries have become mired in Lebanon and Iran, Gaza has faded into the background, and Palestinians’ hopes of ending the genocide have faded as well.
Israeli soldiers are facing a mental health crisis as they return from Gaza, and the diagnosis of “moral injury,” the distress one feels when actions violate one’s moral beliefs, is being used to absolve the guilt of perpetrators of the genocide.
Dr. Salman Khan, an infectious disease specialist, traveled to Gaza on a three-week medical mission in February 2026. He found infectious diseases running rampant, all directly due to Israel’s siege and genocide.
Both the United States and Israel were founded and exist on land taken during ongoing genocides. Settler colonialism drives these genocides, and both nations share an ideology that justifies the theft and rationalizes the killing.
The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC has been described as a major earthquake in the oil market, but its impact on international politics could be even more profound.
Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s joint effort to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu aims to appeal to those upset by Israel’s growing pariah status, but their campaign merely puts a ‘liberal’ veneer on the same Israeli apartheid.
Israel’s plummeting popularity has been driven by the Gaza genocide and Iran war, but it has been building for decades. We are now finally seeing the political results.
Municipal elections were the last democratic outlet Palestinians had. This year, barely anyone is running, as two years of genocide and Israeli crackdown have hollowed out Palestinian political life.