Tag: Middle East
Gaza Flotilla Boats Get Their Resilience from Palestinians
Gaza flotilla boats have become like Palestinians. They—like Palestinians—have been attacked, beaten, partially destroyed, and thrown to the four winds by a brutal, violent Israeli government.
Some of the 2026 Gaza flotilla boats were purposefully damaged so severely by Israeli military forces that they...
Of the twentieth century’s most consequential political melodramas, the Ben Barka case ranks with the murder of John F. Kennedy.—Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup.
The investigative journalist Henrik Kruger wrote about the Ben Barka murder in 1980 when it was still unsolved. He said it contained “unexploded fireworks.”
Even after...
On March 22, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to “accelerate the destruction of Lebanese homes” near the Israeli border based on the “model in Gaza” as part of its campaign against Hezbollah.
Since October 2023, the IDF has destroyed 250,000 homes in southern Lebanon,...
A massive military and intelligence failure, or something else?
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other militant forces crossed from Gaza into southern Israel, attacking military sites, roads, kibbutzim, and the Nova music festival. Roughly 1,200 Israelis and foreign workers or visitors were killed during the attacks, and 251 were...
Recipient of the Serena Shim Award for uncompromised integrity in journalism, Vanessa Beeley gained an excellent reputation for first-hand reporting during the Syrian War (2011-2024) that challenged dominant media narratives.
In December 2024, Beeley was forced to flee Syria after the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was replaced...
Reflections on the Carnage...and What Lebanon Used to Be
I am an American citizen, born in Beirut, Lebanon, the daughter of a diplomat/spy, which makes me immune from President Trump’s deportation efforts.
My father, Daniel Dennett, served as head of counter-intelligence for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and later the...
The largest civilian flotilla in the history of support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank was intercepted at 10:30 a.m. (Turkiye time) on Monday, May 18, 2026, 250 nautical miles from Gaza.
Multiple large Israeli warships disgorged a large number of Zodiac boats filled with combat-laden Israeli offensive...
Jimmy Carter’s administration signed a pivotal military facilities agreement with Sultan Qaboos after he brutally repressed a leftist rebellion
In June 2024, Eric Trump announced the Trump administration’s partnership with a luxury real estate developer, DarGlobal, to construct a $500 million luxury hotel scheduled to open in Muscat, the...
The conservative media landscape has recently been embroiled in an explosive debate about Israel.
One one side, there is former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has broken with Donald Trump and the MAGA universe over the Iran War, stating that Trump betrayed his anti-war election pledge because of his...
179 Unarmed International Participants on 21 Boats Kidnapped in International Waters by Israeli Navy
On the evening of Wednesday, April 29, 2026, Israeli naval forces attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to Gaza.
An unknown number of Israeli military ships traveled more than 700 miles to attack a 54-ship flotilla that was headed...
