Voices
Arguments worth your time this week, from writers inside the story.
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The Bank That Isn't Yours: How Israel Holds the Valve on Every Palestinian Shekel
Haneen Ghaleb on how Israel controls the entire Palestinian financial system, currency, clearance revenue, and the two banks that are Palestine's only gateway to the world.
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Netanyahu Buries Trump Gaza Plan to Save Election as Killing Continues
Israeli officials, backed by Netanyahu, are obstructing Trump's Gaza plan to serve his election, as Israel continues its daily attacks and assassinations in violation of the ceasefire.
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Israeli Ministers Revive Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plans: An Election Slogan, or Still Israel's Agenda?
Israeli ministers Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, and Katz have revived plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza ahead of the election, raising whether it is a campaign slogan or still Israel's active agenda.
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While the World Built the AI Age, Israel Built Mass Graves: Now Netanyahu Wants Israel to Be an AI "Global Power"
Netanyahu launches a national AI program vowing Israel will be a global power, after spending the defining years of the AI age on genocide in Gaza and wars across the region.
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Israeli Media Call El-Sayed's Michigan Win Over AIPAC's Millions a "Nightmare"
Israeli media call Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan primary win a blow to Israel and AIPAC, which spent over $30 million to stop him and now plans to spend more to unseat him.
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Israel Celebrates Removal of ICC Prosecutor Who Sought Netanyahu's Arrest, Officials Boast of Their Role
Israeli officials are celebrating the removal of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, who sought Netanyahu's arrest over Gaza, with the foreign minister said to have run a task force to secure his ouster.
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Trump Vows War Criminal Netanyahu Will Not Be Arrested in the US, Recycling a Lie to Shield Him
Defending the ICC-charged Israeli prime minister from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's push to arrest him, Trump leaned on a fabricated Iranian death toll and tried to flip the question of who belongs under arrest, all while Netanyahu struggles to secure a meeting with him.
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1,108 Killed Under a Ceasefire: Israel Makes Daily Killing Gaza's New Status Quo
Israel has killed 1,108 Palestinians in 275 days of "ceasefire," with 3,689 documented violations. Daily killing is being made Gaza's permanent status quo.
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Everyone Is Saying It. Nobody Is Doing It. Why Israel Keeps Losing the Argument and Winning the Money
Vance says Israel manipulates America. 100+ Democrats voted to cut its aid. Polls have collapsed. And Israel lost nothing. Why the world condemns but never acts.
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The Economy of Necessity in the Summer Holiday in Palestine
In Palestine, summer is no longer rest. With half-salaries and 29.5% unemployment, teachers take second jobs and children enter the labour market to survive.
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Israel Uses Water as Political Weapon Against Jordan; Jordanians Warned This Moment Was Coming for a Decade
Israel conditions Jordan's water supply renewal on softened Gaza rhetoric. Jordanian movements warned for a decade this moment would come. They were right.
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Slovenia: Israel's First EU Diplomatic Recovery Since the Genocide
Slovenia's far-right government freezes Palestinian recognition and plans to move its embassy to occupied Jerusalem, handing Israel its first EU diplomatic recovery post-genocide.