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Rabbi who became mascot for Gaza genocide honoured by Israel on independence day

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War on Iran: Why Egypt cannot afford to take sides

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Israel's war on Lebanon

From Iran to Lebanon, the failures are mounting for Netanyahu

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Palestinian women and girls face brutal abuse in Israeli jails

Victoria Brittain

Israel's war on Lebanon

Why do Lebanese leaders keep courting Israel?

Joseph Massad

War on Iran: How the West is shaping a dystopian era

Marco Carnelos

From Palestine Action to latest policing bill, the UK government is killing free speech

Lord Strasburger

Trump's blockade of Hormuz is another own goal in the war on Iran

David Hearst

Islamofascism: The word that launders war crimes, from Iran to Palestine

Faisal Hanif

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Khalid Albaih

War on Iran: Why Israel and the US are the ultimate losers

Hisham Bustani

Amid Israel's 'forever wars', Palestinians must not abandon the one-state solution

Awad Abdelfattah

How US-Israeli war on Iran has eclipsed the crisis in Sudan

Osama Abuzaid

Israel's war on Lebanon

Israel's campaign of terror in Lebanon takes another psychopathic turn

Belen Fernandez

How Israel and the US are losing the broader battle against Iran

Feras Abu Helal

Trump's mocking of the Pope reveals a clash of moral universes

Soumaya Ghannoushi

War on Iran: Why the Islamabad talks failed

Sami Al-Arian

Trump's framing of war as Iran's barbarism vs civilised West is a huge lie

Peter Oborne

Can the Iran-US ceasefire produce a lasting deal?

Shahir Shahidsaless

Starmer faces reckoning over his support for Trump's illegal war on Iran

Joe Gill

Could the Islamabad talks end 48 years of hostility between the US and Iran?

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Had Bush and Blair been punished for Iraq war crimes, Iran might have been spared

Peter Oborne

Trump's 'Apocalypse Now' is a busted flush. Iran has proved it and China knows it

David Hearst

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Hamas rules out disarmament before Israel meets ceasefire terms

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UK Politics

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Home Office bans Tommy Robinson ally from entering UK to attend far-right march

Green Party strategist reveals plan for local elections and slams 'sectarian' claims

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London police investigating incident near Israeli embassy

Belgium seizes arms shipment sent from Britain to Israel

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Iran-Israel tensions

By allowing Israel to bomb Iran, Trump is pushing Tehran to go nuclear

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