Trump threatens to invade Iran’s Kharg Island, then says Americans lack the ‘stomach for...
Sean Mathews
Middle East Eye / June 11, 2026
US president's flip-flopping on high-stakes military operations comes as he expresses bewilderment that Iran hasn't 'submitted' to...
Israeli MP Ariel Kellner declares Turkey an ‘enemy state’
MEE staff
Middle East Eye / June 11, 2026
Likud lawmaker says Turkish President Recep Erdogan is a 'very dangerous person' amid increasing tensions between the...
[Gaza] The rise of the ‘conflict-permanence’ industry
Imran Khalid
Foreign Policy In Focus / June 11, 2026
Gaza is a tragic example of how a business has been created around the administering of...
Food from occupied territories enters Europe disguised as Israeli, investigation finds
Bartosz Brzeziński & Marianne Gros
POLITICO / June 10, 2026
As the EU tries to crack down on violence by Jewish settlers, dates, tahini and oranges...
Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinian Bedouins, major new report finds
MEE staff
Middle East Eye / June 10, 2026
Forcible transfer of Palestinian Bedouins in West Bank is not led by rogue extremists but by Israeli...
Trump the unreliable narrator fails to force reality to match his story on Iran
Andrew Roth
The Guardian / June 10, 2026
A cycle of threat, detente and deadlock repeats itself wearisomely as the president’s war in Iran drags on.
Washington...
Israel moves toward normalizing capital punishment
Ori Goldberg
New Lines Magazine / June 10, 2026
On the morning of June 7, Omar Yassin, a 21-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel from the city...
US launches a second straight day of airstrikes in Iran
Ben Johansen & Paul McLeary
POLITICO / June 10, 2026
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had telegraphed the action earlier in the...
US and Iran’s exchange of strikes shows how far diplomacy has changed
Bamo Nouri & Inderjeet Parmar
The Conversation / June 10, 2026
The US military launched strikes against Iran on June 9 in response to the downing...
Hormuz closure sparks global pitch fest on energy
Daniella Cheslow
POLITICO / June 10, 2026
The projects aren’t coming online anytime soon, but countries from Suriname to Syria see an opportunity to be the...
