The Shifting Sands: Morocco’s New Reality Post-Abraham Accords by Mohamed El Metmari
By Mohamed El Metmari | Independent Blogger/ Researcher Living in a country that maintains diplomatic relations with an apartheid, settler-colonial

Officials said the body’s leadership could be announced as soon as Wednesday, but U.S. efforts to shape postwar Gaza by disarming Hamas have faced hurdles.
After more than a decade of wars, from Syria to Gaza, the Middle East is exhausted by conflict. Is it ready to find another way?
President Trump should press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ease military pressure on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria for the sake of his own policy.
Russia and China abstained in the vote, which provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.
The Israeli authorities said they were investigating the shooting, which came amid days of extensive military operations in the West Bank.
U.S. and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians.
The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.
For a movement that built its legitimacy around what it called resistance, giving up its weapons is not just a tactical concession, it is an existential unraveling.
The alternative, Ambassador Michael Waltz bluntly told diplomats, was to watch the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas give way to a return to war.

by Jennifer Bing on January 16, 2026 at 5:56 pm
New Israeli rules will ban organizations like mine from Gaza, ending aid and cutting vital solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues.

by Qassam Muaddi on January 15, 2026 at 8:38 pm
For Palestinians in Gaza, Phase 2 of the ceasefire offers little hope that it will fundamentally change the status quo Israel has established over the past three months, which many refer to as “a new form of genocide.”

J Street is the new AIPAC in the Democratic Party
by Philip Weiss on January 15, 2026 at 4:12 pm
AIPAC is suddenly unwelcome among Democrats, but there’s a new sheriff in town to enforce the pro-Israel orthodoxy. J Street aims to make liberals ‘love Israel again,’ but most Democrats are looking to distance themselves due to the Gaza genocide.

Why Netanyahu says he wants to stop U.S. aid to Israel
by Mitchell Plitnick on January 14, 2026 at 6:12 pm
Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent statement that he wants to end Israel’s reliance on U.S. aid over the next decade was surprising, but there could be strategic and economic reasons behind the move, as well as political realities forcing him to do so.

Ras Ain al-Auja, the latest Palestinian village in the West Bank wiped off the map by Israel
by Zena al-Tahhan on January 14, 2026 at 4:47 pm
Ras Ain al-Auja was one of the largest Palestinian Bedouin villages in the West Bank. Now most of its 120 families have been forcibly displaced by state-backed Israeli settlers after nonstop attacks. Residents are calling it “another Nakba.”
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