If the US claims to be deeply concerned about nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, we have a responsibility to stop ignoring facts that make us look like hypocrites. We cannot keep sending billions in weapons unconditionally to a nuclear-armed state while treating open discussion of that reality as impermissible.
More than 50,000 injuries now require long-term rehabilitation, with over 2,000 spinal cord injuries, and more than 1,300 traumatic brain injuries.
The disclosure is the latest in a series of revelations that have chipped away at Israel’s official narrative of 7 October.
Known as Israel’s favorite American general, recently retired Erik Kurilla was credited with convincing Trump to bomb Iran in June 2025. Other speakers included pro-Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson, former Mossad Deputy Director Henrike Weissberg, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Nancy Pelosi.
A new report that Israel touts as “evidentiary breakthrough” is little more than a repeat of earlier attempts to “prove” widespread rape: unsubstantiated claims, secondhand accounts, discredited witnesses, outright lies, and most importantly, a total absence of accusers.
Two articles on the escalating anti-Palestinian hate in Jerusalem: Far-right Jewish marchers call for Palestinian villages to ‘burn’ as they storm through Muslim quarter of Old City; Israeli political leader incites takeover of holy site
It’s hard to think liberation is near when faced with so much death and destruction. But it’s even harder to ignore the cracks in the facade of the US and Israeli machine.
“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba,” says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. “This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.”
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A Microsoft investigative team began work last month over concerns that the Israeli subsidiary was exposing the company to legal liability in Europe