The surcharge tax Americans pay to finance Israel’s wars
Jamal Kanj
CounterPunch / May 7, 2026
The next time you pull into a gas station, watch the number on the pump as you squeeze the...
How the Abraham Accords fuelled a new era of conflict
Matthew Duss & Zuri Linetsky
Foreign Policy / May 7, 2026
Despite promising peace, Israeli-Gulf cooperation paved the path to war with Iran.
On Sept. 15, 2020,...
Israel’s war on the West Bank comes for Palestinian greenhouses
Meron Rapoport
+972 Magazine / May 7, 2026
In Jayyous and neighbouring villages, Palestinian farmers have been served dozens of new demolition orders intended to push...
Israel to spend $730m on propaganda as global image collapses over Gaza genocide
Middle East Monitor / May 6, 2026
Israel is preparing to spend nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars on its propaganda apparatus, in a sign...
US fires on Iranian-flagged oil tanker as Trump gives Tehran fresh ultimatum
Jason Burke, Shah Meer Baloch & Hannah Ellis-Petersen
The Guardian / May 6, 2026
President tells Iran to accept deal to end war or face new...
A forensic account of the horrors my family experienced during the Nakba
Salman Abu Sitta
Mondoweiss / May 6, 2026
Eyal Weizman’s pioneering work with Forensic Architecture is the focus of his new book Ungrounding: The Architecture of...
Gaza’s painful journeys
Qasem Waleed El-Farra
The Electronic Intifada / May 6, 2026
I feel selfish sometimes if I sit in the back seat of a taxi.
The back seat...
Another day, another pivot as Trump flails in an Iran trap of his own...
Julian Borger
The Guardian / May 6, 2026
Latest proposal, derided by Tehran as a ‘wish list’, could yet be a way out – but with...
Iran and ceasefire – U.S. floats memo to end the war
Drop Site News / May 6, 2026
The U.S. has put forward a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war, according to Axios .
The...
The hypothesis of the collapse of powers like Iran fails in the real world
Jenny Williams
Middle East Monitor / May 6, 2026
In the intellectual circles of Washington and its allies, a growing certainty is evident: a combination of...
