UNRWA remains the backbone of humanitarian assistance in Gaza, providing food, medical care, education, clean water, and psychosocial support to more than a million Palestinians caught in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Efforts to dismantle or delegitimize the agency threaten to deepen civilian suffering and undermine the delivery of lifesaving aid.
Today’s podcast guest is Dr. Dania Arayssi, a Senior Research Fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy and a scholar of Middle East political economy and participation. She also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and teaches at George Washington University. Her research focuses on Middle East politics, with particular expertise in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Hezbollah.
In this episode, we discuss the fragmentation of the order and power that used to exist in the Middle East, the efforts of Iran to spread their influence and power in an attempt to hold on to the old order, the possibility of a NATO-like alliance in the Middle East, and the potential for security arrangements like the Mecca Agreement eventually encompassing Israel alongside its neighbors.
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The Netanyahu government`s policies of dispossession, widespread destruction, displacement, killings, and terror against Palestinian civilians betray the moral inheritance of Judaism. They endanger Jews worldwide by creating the poisonous impression that all Jews are complicit in Israel’s atrocities and giving unprecedented rise to antisemitism.
Sudan is facing one of the world`s worst humanitarian catastrophes, yet millions of civilians remain without adequate protection. Since the conflict erupted in April 2023, tens of thousands have been killed, more than 10.5 million people have been displaced within the country, and millions more have fled across borders.
As Israelis vote today, the stakes extend far beyond Netanyahu’s political survival. The result of the election raises a profound question about Israel’s democratic future, moral standing, and place in the world. In my recent article, Israel’s Fateful Election: A Nation on the Brink, I examine how democratic erosion, settler violence, international isolation, and endless warfare threaten Israel’s founding promise. Military superiority cannot substitute for political vision. The prospect of victory for the opposition parties will have a historic implication: the new government will face a Herculean task only to repair the most devastating damage that Netanyahu has inflicted on Israel’s international standing, but also on Israel itself and on the Palestinians. Read my full analysis:
alonben-meir.com/writing/israels-fateful-election-a-natioin-on-the-brink/
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Reports of potential U.S. strikes against Iran raise a fundamental question: What is President Trump’s endgame? Military superiority cannot substitute for a coherent political strategy. Further attacks risk Iranian retaliation, wider regional instability, and another prolonged conflict with no clear resolution. Iran’s nuclear ambitions and regional activities pose serious security challenges, but military force alone cannot resolve them. Nor should Washington allow Israel’s security priorities to dictate American decisions about war and peace. Trump must recognize that a tactical military win against Iran will result in a strategic failure. Iran will not surrender, not now, not ever. Only a negotiated agreement can achieve both the US and Iran’s interests.
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He's making money!......
Carter should have done this in 79
Who’s laughing now?
we had this for 47 plus years, time to finish them
We have been fighting Iran sense 1979.. President Trump just decided to really do something about it.
The USA has great interest in peace between stable nations of that region. The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only obstacle to peace.
A negotiated agreement means nothing with Iran. They will immediately violate any agreement. You know this.
ILHAN OMAR IS THE BEGINNING youtu.be/lP36alwyaIU?is=fcwZMYSW8_4hDKFt WWG1WGA
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM youtu.be/HYVFMPlARR8?is=Hq2D9YNRjnpIHpph
Piss off.
Off you fuck inbred goat rapist. We’re not going to stop until Islam is wiped from the face of the planet.
Yeah bend over for Islam like the Dems and liberals 😆
I think the people will cut some of his strings come Nov 3.
Liberal insanity will never win.
The USA is at war against terrorism and terrorists, if you don’t support it then YOU support terrorism and terrorists, disgusting
The retardocrats have been saying bomb them for years. Now that Trump did it they have their panties in a wad!
The endgame is a future where a nuke DOESN'T go off over Tel Aviv. The Iranian zealots are in a suicide pact. If they had a button to push that would kill the Jews at the expense of killing most Iranians, they would not hesitate to push it.
Is today the day Cartel Kingpin and Bimbo (Admin Asst) across the street are arrested for theft/embezzlement of my $650,000 (Sister’s Life Insurance and Mother’s investments in AT&T stocks)? Procurements and Reclamation can’t occur until this happens. I believe the actual thieves, Casey Lee Diosdado and Dale Lyn Woodward have already been sentenced. Now awaiting arrest and conviction of theft money launderers.
ALL YOU PEDOCRATS AND LEFTIST IMBECILES SUPPORT P3D0PHILIA AND TERRORISM youtu.be/oWVcLZ2D_U0?is=8e-2PVgeSqZf5NhX
EFF YOU.
Another? Look you goddamn buffoon, there’s been a war with Iran since 1972!! It never stopped. So, you willingly ignorant fukfart, this ain’t a new war!
Your opinion is ignorant.
The West Bank could light a wildfire that will spread worldwide. Years of nurturing racism and competing river to sea dreams will take more than a century to overcome under a constitution. Or the Mecca Agreement signed days after Netanyahu had two peace negotiators killed in Doha will create a nuclear war, as attacks by Israel on the Persian Gulf states are both unacceptable and provocative. Saudi Arabia financed Pakistan's nuclear weapons development with the understanding that the Saudis can use them. Then add one of the world's largest armies, Turkey. The Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan met the Iranians to talk about adding them to the agreement, and Syria is a client puppet state of Turkey. Jordan has custodial control of the West Bank holy sites and attacking them would add Jordan. Nuclear atheism means Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan vs Israel. In the ongoing 2026 Israeli Knesset election (votes counted as of ~28 October 2026, with ~93% of regular ballots reported nationally), results from Judea and Samaria (the Israeli settlements/reporting area in the West Bank) show a very strong preference for the outgoing Netanyahu/government parties. According to Poliwave’s aggregation of Central Elections Committee locality data (grouping natural regions; ~222,525 valid votes reported for the area): Government parties (Netanyahu bloc / outgoing coalition) : 79.6% (177,156 votes). This includes Likud, Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionism–Zehut, Shas, United Torah Judaism, and related lists. Religious Zionism and Zehut led in the area. Opposition/Change bloc : 13.6% (30,182 votes). This includes Yashar (Eisenkot), B’Yachad/Together (Bennett), the Democrats, and Yisrael Beiteinu. Arab parties : 0.1% (118 votes). Joint List and Ra’am combined. Other lists : 6.8% (15,069 votes). These figures cover Jewish Israeli voters in the settlements (Palestinian residents of the West Bank do not vote in Israeli national elections). The area has historically leaned heavily right/religious-nationalist; 2022 results were similarly skewed toward the right (Religious Zionism/Otzma and Likud dominant). National results remain fluid (Netanyahu bloc projected around 53 seats, opposition/Change around 48, Arab parties around 19, short of a clear majority of 61), with double-envelope ballots (soldiers, etc.) still to be fully counted and official results expected later. Data is partial and subject to final certification by the Central Elections Committee. Sources such as Poliwave aggregate official returns by region.
I agree with Barack Obama’s criticism of Donald Trump’s White House makeover. Obama humorously compared Trump’s extravagant decorations to what the White House might look like if Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. The comparison is funny, but the message behind it is serious. Trump’s obsession with gold, luxury, and grandeur reflects how he approaches power: as something to display rather than a responsibility to serve. The White House belongs to the American people, not to the president occupying it. While millions of Americans struggle with rising living costs, Trump is more concerned with projecting wealth and power. Obama’s joke exposes something troubling about Trump’s presidency: the transformation of public service into a spectacle of personal vanity and stupidity.
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I agree with Donald Trumps depiction of the Democratic Party being a bunch of zoo animals🤷🏻♂️😅
Gay Muslim chimp pos built a billion dollar shit house
Obama has failed America in everything he did and will be remembered as the first anti president!
OBAMA BETTER WATCH HIS WIFE INSTEAD. HE IS A NO BODY.
Seems Obama didn’t care how the White House looked, he is jealous Trump did it and he didn’t. Although he did put in a basketball court, for his own personal use. Trump put in a ballroom for all Presidents to use and fixed the rose garden so reporters wouldn’t have to walk through soggy grass.
they'll have to take a shovel to the white house after he's gone.
I am not surprised by Trump’s vulgar comments about Nicki Minaj’s body. What disturbs me more is the crowd cheering as the president of the United States degrades a woman. At a Michigan rally, he reportedly called her backside. The issue extends beyond Trump’s long record of allegations and controversies involving women. It is the normalization of degrading behavior—and the willingness to celebrate it. How did we get to a point where such language earns applause instead of condemnation? When audiences cheer a president’s vulgarity, they do more than excuse it: they help sustain a political culture that turns disrespect into entertainment and treats the humiliation of women as an applause line.
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Thank Goodness he didn’t say “ piece of”!! He’s done this before but never on such a magnitude!! Did he do it to degrade Black women as a whole in his prejudiced rhetoric… or his racist ideology?! If so we remain exempt in his idiotic display of low class mentality!! Never the Gentlemen he isn’t!! God has always shielded us in masse!! What can he do about that?!…Nothing!! Not a thing!! Nikki… grow up!! You are out of place!! God still has you but you have to realize it!! Grow from this!! You could have said “No Mr. President!! Don’t do that!!” But you allowed him the moment over yours!! Ask yourself how you really felt in that moment of time?! More famous or embarrassed?! Smiles can be deceiving!! Were you really smiling… from the inside or was in a sideshow?! You are free to have done so!! To say no to sexual harassment!! Call a press conference and get your dignity back…!! Tell them how you really feel!! You have a child who will grow up to this!! How will he handle it?! Sacrifice whatever you feel for him!! Fix it!!
Can you imagine if Barack Obama said this,conservatives would want him LYNCHED AND SHOT AND BURNED in that ordered
Does anyone think that Mark Carney would ever talk like this Using such Vulgar language And what does it say about the Degredation of morals of those Cheering
it's not normal. nothing about trump is normal
