The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Tel Aviv and Washington try to hijack the internal social and political struggles of Arab and Muslim societies for their own sinister reasons, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies highlight a few of the numerous speeches urging diplomatic resolution of the war at this year’s General Assembly.
Responding to the strong reactions, the GNU’s prime minister suspended his foreign minister and opened an inquiry into the affair on Sunday, which will be concluded this week.
The U.N.’s Middle East envoy briefed the U.N. Security Council on the deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2005.
The divide in Israel today is between the right and the far right — those who want to repress the Palestinians and those who want to repress the Palestinians even more. For that reason, Arabs regard the protests as irrelevant…
To live up to Israel’s expectations and to ensure its survival, the Palestinian Authority is willing to clash directly with Palestinians who refuse to toe the line, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Lebanon’s economic crisis is being compounded by political stalemate, corruption and Western interference, while Hezbollah’s political position has weakened because of a flailing relationship with its Christian ally, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
The American Anthropological Association has become the largest U.S. scholastic group to pass a resolution to boycott Israeli educational institutions, Peoples Dispatch reports. The measure does not extend to individual academics.
Israel could not mount its military aggression against Palestinians without $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid, writes Marjorie Cohn.