The short answer is ‘no’ Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal The short answer is ‘no’. Trump was confabulating when he said that he was...
Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri is filing a civil complaint at a French war crimes unit alongside the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) over an Israeli strike on a building in central Beirut dating back to...
GAZA, (PIC) A video of Palestinian university students taking exams on Gaza’s shores has sparked widespread social media interaction, in the midst of the unprecedented collapse of the educational sector in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli war. Activists have circulated...
Rima Hassan , a French pro-Palestinian member of the European Parliament, was arrested on Thursday over a comment she posted on X last month about an attack on an Israeli airport in the 1970s, her fellow party member Jean-Luc Melenchon...
The Istanbul-based Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) launched an urgent ‘Al Aqsa Appeal’ this week to urge the reopening of one of Islam’s holiest sites. The PCPA denounced the Israeli closure of the Al-Aqsa complex as unprecedented,...
The Israeli army imposed a curfew on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank 's flashpoint city of Hebron on Wednesday, sealing off entrances to neighbourhoods as the Jewish holiday of Passover began. Residents of the Jaber, Salaymeh, and...
Yahya Shamali's mother stands at the entrance of a worn-out tent in a displacement camp in Al-Saraya, central Gaza City. She scans the road anxiously, terrified her 16-year-old son might slip away again. For Yahya, who is on the autism...
The Israeli Knesset passed a bill on March 30 to institute the death penalty only for Palestinians. The new law mandates military courts to sentence Palestinians in the West Bank and other Israeli-occupied territories to execution by hanging if...
GAZA, (PIC) Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Wednesday to protest new Israeli legislation that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, amid rising public anger. The rally, organized by the Popular Committee for Refugees,...
New York City police arrested a member of a Jewish Defense League group known as JDL 613 , for plotting to assassinate a Palestinian-American leader. The suspect is Alexander Heifler, whose Linkedin account lists his employment as...
Gracias a las FMP, el imperialismo tuvo que poner fin a su ocupación oficial de Irak tras años de destrucción iniciada con la invasión de 2003. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Ministry of Health has warned of an impending health catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, as hospitals face a critical shortage of fuel needed to operate electricity generators, amid the ongoing impact of the Israeli genocide and the...
Only by taking such religious movements into account can we see the thread that connects a forgotten 17 th -century philosopher to the warmonger pastors of the 21 st century. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK...
The short answer is ‘no’, Alastair Crooke writes. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The short answer is ‘no’. Trump was confabulating when he said that he was already in negotiations with ‘important’...
CAIRO, (PIC) A high-level delegation from the Hamas Movement arrived on Wednesday evening in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to follow up on the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement and to hold talks with Egyptian officials. The delegation, led by Hamas leader...
Several protests erupted across the Middle East this week, denouncing what has been lambasted as Israel's "racist" death penalty law targeting Palestinians. Thousands of Syrians took to the streets across several provinces to express their rejection of the law,...
An 21-month-old boy's mental state has 'greatly deteriorated' after he was released from Israeli detention with signs of torture , the toddler's mother has told The New Arab . A medical report found that Israeli soldiers extinguished cigarettes on...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene reflecting a remarkable determination to restore academic life despite the harsh reality, the experimental operation of the “University City” began in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, forming a new step toward restoring...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque has entered its 34th consecutive day on Thursday, as tensions escalate across occupied Jerusalem and settler groups intensify calls to storm the site during the upcoming Jewish Passover holiday. According to the Wadi Hilweh...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Palestinian refugee camps in the Tyre region of southern Lebanon are entering a highly sensitive phase, with escalating security threats and continuous Israeli bombing in their vicinity, compared to an almost complete absence of emergency plans and organized response...
GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinian citizens were martyred and others were injured in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, according to media sources on Thursday. A Palestinian young woman was reportedly martyred last night after being shot and injured by the Israeli...
The Israeli army has turned its so-called Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip into a new border, through the establishment of dozens of new military outposts, according to Arabic media reports on Tuesday. The buffer zone created...
The 2026 municipal elections revealed something new in France. Candidates from immigrant backgrounds were no longer just symbols of republican inclusion. In a remarkable number of cities, they were winning. Notably, Bally Bagayoko was elected as mayor in the commune...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli public prosecutor has informed the higher court that the body of 14-year-old Wadi Alyan had been buried in a “cemetery of numbers” about five months ago, in response to a new petition submitted to the court. According...
“Ci vogliono soldi per uccidere i cattivi”. Così, il 19 marzo scorso, il Segretario alla Guerra Peter Brian Hegseth ha giustificato in conferenza stampa la richiesta di 200 miliardi di dollari del Pentagono al Congresso per rifinanziare la...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that encapsulates the deep social cost of the ongoing war, a vast generation of children is growing in the Gaza Strip who have lost one of the most important pillars of stability in their lives: the...
Bomblets from a single Iranian missile hit at least ten locations across Israel, particularly in Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva in late March, setting cars and buildings on fire and injuring nine people in a strike that Israeli...
Mohammed Azzam was surprised to find an advertisement posted on Facebook by an Israeli settler offering to sell Azzam's land in the town of Qaryut, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank . Settlers had recently...
Egypt is stepping up efforts to implement the remaining phases of US President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan for Gaza, amid fears that the Iran war is shifting the world's attention away and turning the Palestinian territory into a forgotten...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided several homes in the West Bank last night and at dawn Thursday, amid clashes in some areas. According to local sources, Israeli forces stormed Aida refugee camp in northern Bethlehem and carried out...
CAIRO, (PIC) Egypt’s renowned Islamic institution, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, strongly condemned the Israeli approval of a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, saying that the measure constitutes a “full-fledged crime” and a clear violation of humanitarian values and international law. In a...
GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian civilians, including a child, were injured on Wednesday evening by Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip, amid ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement. The incidents coincided with artillery shelling and demolition operations targeting various areas across...
Amidst the turbulent backdrop of Trump’s war on Iran, perhaps the most baffling development to date: Neoconservatives coming out of the woodwork … and making sense. In a recent piece for The Atlantic, Robert Kagan, eminent primacist and once ardent...
Netanyahu pitched the war as a repeat of Israel’s apparent ‘audacious feat’ of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. Trump’s speech tonight, Wednesday 1 April, will be interesting in light...
As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical and symbolic politics can help...
Atouf, West Bank - In the Jordan Valley village of Atouf, Palestinian farmers are hauling ladders, fences, and other agricultural equipment into their pick-up truck - preparing to leave their lands. “I invested NIS 150,000 [$48,800] in planting...
No one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin’. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su China and Pakistan released a joint 5-points statement...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A group of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds in the Masafer Yatta area south of al-Khalil on Wednesday. Local activist Osama Makhamra told the WAFA news agency that armed settlers from an illegal outpost in Masafer Yatta attacked shepherds...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers performed Talmudic prayers in the Bab al-Sahira area of the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday evening to mark the “Jewish Passover,” amid ongoing restrictions on Muslim worshipers. The Jerusalem Governorate said...
Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham, two prominent pro-Palestine activists in the UK, were found guilty of public order offences on Wednesday, in what has been described as a chilling measure against pro-Palestine activism. Standing trial at Westminster Magistrates Court...
By Jonathan COOK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A coalition of institutions across the Arab and Muslim worlds has launched an international campaign under the slogan “Al-Aqsa is calling for help,” in protest against the closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque and efforts to impose Israeli control over...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A comprehensive strike paralyzed various aspects of life across the cities and towns of the occupied West Bank today, Wednesday, in rejection of the prisoner execution law approved by the Israeli Knesset, amid a state of widespread popular...
What remains of the U.S. presence in Iraq had already been targeted by the PMF, writes Eduardo Vasco. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Another country has joined the war against the United...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined - "perhaps more than ever" - to pass controversial legislation that would exempt most draft-age Haredi Jews from conscription, sources close to the prime minister have told Haaretz...
Pope Leo XIV is preparing to celebrate Easter for the first time as pontiff a year after his predecessor's death, as concerns grow among Christians over the Middle East war. Holy Week began with a clash in the Holy Land...
Indonesia has called on the United Nations to investigate the killing of three of its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon in Israeli attacks, as war between Israel and Hezbollah rages. The call came in a Tuesday statement delivered by Indonesia's...
The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy for a surprise attack. On the pattern of Germany’s invasion of Poland in...
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