Just weeks before the Israeli elections that are considered too close to call, members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government have been trying to rush through tenders for E1 settlements in the occupied West Bank that would greatly expand the “settler” footprint in the territory and essentially snuff out any chance of the two-state solution.
Restaurants are shutting down. Factories are closing. Retailers are disappearing. Mines are idling. Schools are cutting programs. And businesses that served their communities for years are turning off the lights.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has spent about $366 million on the 2026 midterm elections to make sure Republicans keep control of the House and Senate, which would allow President Donald Trump to continue to act with impunity for the rest of his term.
Businesses are cutting workers and cutting costs as economic pressures mount and AI takes over human jobs.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, defended Israel in an X post last week that accused a “Muslim Brotherhood’s Qatari-funded global propaganda campaign” of trying to spread the lie that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
A top Trump administration official warned countries that level sanctions against Israel over the abuses it allows in the West Bank by so-called settlers on the Palestinian population will face reciprocal tariffs by the U.S., according to a report in The Telegraph.
A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling claim about the nature of political power.
The IDF has built 32 military outposts inside Gaza that Tel Aviv insists are necessary to watch over the rubble left after over two years of genocide, and the forces now control about 70 percent of the enclave – a jump from the 53 percent that it controlled when the ceasefire was announced in October 2025.
Last week marked the year anniversary of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, which did little to relieve Palestinians crammed inside the enclave who still must deal with IDF troops razing buildings, shooting civilians, and encroaching on the territory.
Israel killed at least 74,382 Palestinians and injured over 175,000 since the start of the genocide in October 2023.