Axios reports that Trump called Netanyahu “crazy”, accused him of ingratitude, and put the brakes on Israel’s plan to strike Beirut. Some commenters are suspicious of this leak. Trita Parsi examines this viewpoint in detail.
The House’s 2027 NDAA takes a major step toward moving aid beyond public oversight by effectively treating the two countries’ armed forces as a single military apparatus.
West Bank wrestles with Israeli land theft, detentions ■ Chilling detail in Israeli weapons sales ■ If Israel keeps attacking Lebanon, Gaza, shipping problems could get much worse ■ Israel and world politics
Israeli ceasefire violations abound in Gaza ■ All kinds of provocations in West Bank ■ Israel’s record-breaking weapons sales ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon, US politics, and more
Held without charge in Israeli jails, West Bank reporters describe beatings, starvation, isolation, and threats meant to force them into silence.
The powerful UK based Israel lobby succeeded in getting Cenk Uygur & Hassan Piker banned from the country (Cenk was scheduled to speak at Oxford)… and that’s not all…
33 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza during Eid holiday ■ Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in West Bank ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon
House Democrats are demanding Secretary of State Marco Rubio finally come clean about Israel’s nuclear capabilities. Buried beneath years of silence lies a scandal that stretches back to the early Cold War—one involving a small Pennsylvania town, a team of Israeli spies, and the largest loss of weapons-grade uranium in American history.
Massie represents the latest chapter in a decades-long campaign by the Israel lobby to eliminate dissenters from Congress.
According to anonymous sources, Israel is privately lobbying the Department of War to assassinate parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and restart the war with a new round of strikes targeting the country’s oil infrastructure.