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

Mahmoud Abbas’s years in power have been dogged by accusations of corruption. Many Palestinians yearn for fresh leadership.
Hamas said it was not participating in the municipal elections in Deir al-Balah, set for this weekend. Residents said it was a long-awaited opportunity to address the city’s problems
Hamas has survived waves of killings of its leaders. More than force will be necessary to overturn the Islamic regime of Iran.
Amid criticism over the board’s structure and broad mandate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. defended the board, saying “a new way” was needed to address the situation in Gaza.
A fast-growing network of private schools, the brainchild of a North Carolina neurosurgeon, is teaching 9,000 war orphans and other needy Palestinian youngsters.
The security cabinet took actions that make it easier for Jews to buy land in the territory. Critics say the changes violate the Oslo Accords and international law and accelerate attempts to annex the land.
The only crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt has reopened. The move will allow residents to leave for medical care or return to homes and families in the territory.
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.

How Jeffrey Goldberg weaponized Jewish trauma to pave the way for war with Iran
by Yakov Hirsch on May 21, 2026 at 2:18 pm
Over the past two decades, no one has done more to shape U.S. discourse on Israel than Jeffrey Goldberg. By relying on tropes of eternal Jewish victimhood, Goldberg declared Iran an existential threat to Jews and helped pave the way for war.

Israel is reviving a 58-year-old government order to seize vital Palestinian properties in Jerusalem
by Qassam Muaddi on May 21, 2026 at 1:18 pm
Israel is reviving an obscure 1968 government order to unilaterally seize some 50 properties directly adjacent to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Residents say the move is an effort to remove Palestinians and to complete the Judaization of Jerusalem.

Israel has a master plan to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouins to a giant ghetto
by Shatha Hammad on May 21, 2026 at 11:00 am
The “Shami neighborhood project” will ethnically cleanse the Bedouin population of Jerusalem’s eastern wilderness as part of Israel’s plan to take total control over the strategic “Greater Jerusalem” corridor, which would split the West Bank in two.

by Michael Arria on May 20, 2026 at 4:22 pm
AIPAC helped oust Thomas Massie in Kentucky, but Chris Rabb’s win in Philadelphia dealt a major blow to pro-Israel groups and the Democratic Party establishment.

How Israel is using militias and concrete blocks to seize what remains of Gaza
by Tareq S. Hajjaj on May 19, 2026 at 2:53 pm
Israeli forces have pushed past the “Yellow Line” that divides the Gaza Strip in half and now control 65% of the territory. Residents call the new border Gaza’s “apartheid wall.”
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