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

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.
It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.

by Tareq S. Hajjaj on May 8, 2026 at 2:07 pm
More than 70,000 infections have been recorded in Gaza this year, as rats bite children as they sleep and skin diseases kill those prevented from receiving treatment abroad. Health officials say a plague outbreak is no longer a remote possibility.

Trump knows he lost the Iran war, and is now desperate to find a way out
by Mitchell Plitnick on May 8, 2026 at 11:30 am
Recent U.S. moves indicate that Donald Trump has finally recognized the disastrous mistake he made by listening to Benjamin Netanyahu and launching the war on Iran. Now he is looking to cut a deal, but Israel won’t make it easy.

by Qassam Muaddi on May 8, 2026 at 11:00 am
After failing to dismantle Hamas, destroy Hezbollah, topple the Iranian government, or redraw the Middle East, Netanyahu and his allies have only one thing left to show for their time in power: the de facto annexation of the West Bank.

The catastrophic impasse in Gaza is the new status quo
by Qassam Muaddi on May 7, 2026 at 11:30 am
Gaza is paying the price for the failed U.S.-Israeli wars across the Middle East. As the countries have become mired in Lebanon and Iran, Gaza has faded into the background, and Palestinians’ hopes of ending the genocide have faded as well.

How Israeli settlers are weaponizing water against Palestinians in the West Bank
by Qassam Muaddi on May 6, 2026 at 2:40 pm
As Israeli settler attacks on water sources multiply across the West Bank, Palestinian communities that have farmed the land for generations are being forced out. “If this continues, we will barely be allowed to drink,” a resident tells Mondoweiss.
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