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The Iran strikes could become a midterm reckoning – for Trump and Israel

Conservative dissent over the war is fracturing the GOP and testing the durability of US support for Israel.

FILE - Tucker Carlson attends a meeting with President Donald Trump and oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Carlson-Huckabee interview may be the wake-up call Americans needed

The interview brought the ‘Israel first vs America first’ debate to heart of the American right.

FILE - U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee poses for a photo during an interview in Jerusalem, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, file)

The Arab Spring hasn’t ended, and Arab regimes know it

Fifteen years on, repression is deeper, dissent is criminalised, but democracy is still the public demand.

Riot police force protestors back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital and hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell anti-government demonstrations [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]

Egypt’s all-important parliamentary elections aren’t elections at all

The vote is carefully managed so that only one outcome is possible: a longer lease on power for el-Sisi.

A woman votes at a school used as a polling station, during the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, in Giza, Egypt, November 10, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

The capitulation of the US media is not an aberration

President Donald Trump’s administration is bringing to the fore weaknesses that have long plagued US democracy.

FILE - Microphones are extended as President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, June 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The US and Israel have nothing to gain from their war on the UN

By attacking the UN and the rules-based order, these two rogue states are merely hastening their own decline.

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Leaked US warning to Israel to ‘let aid in Gaza’ is merely a distraction

The Biden administration is trying to hide its complicity in genocide and help Harris win the election.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands prior to a meeting in Tel Aviv Israel November 30, 2023

The US is no longer the senior partner in the US-Israel relationship

When challenged by the Israeli government, Washington has chosen acquiescence.

President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office

Gaza and the death of Western journalism

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed an unprecedented number of journalists – so why is the Western media still silent?

Mourners and colleagues holding 'press' signs surround the body of Al-Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul, killed along with his cameraman Rami al-Refee in an Israeli strike during their coverage of Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp, on July 31, 2024. - Al Jazeera condemned the killing of two of its journalists, calling the deaths a "cold-blooded assassination" in a statement. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Unpacking Blinken’s lies on the Gaza ceasefire negotiations

After the US secretary of state’s misleading press conference on Wednesday, there is a need to correct the record.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pictured in Doha, Qatar, for negotiations on June 12, 2024 [Ibraheem Al Omari/Pool/Reuters]