So the Labour Party, named for laborers, working class, leftists, is dismissing many leftist candidates, including Faiza Shaheen who had the gall to use social media? UK politics is as much of a clown show as US aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/30…

Washington & Jerusalem should agree to phase out US military aid over the next 10 years & instead agree to cooperate on security, technology & intelligence: bold Steven A. Cook latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Biden's staunch backing of Israel continues to go swimmingly well:

If it's not Jalili, who else has a shot at the Iranian presidency? Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی reviews the field thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen… The National Comment The National

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming up with ever more inventive slurs to describe Netanyahu, now calling him 'a blood-feeding vampire' & a 'psychopath.' This will not help already highly-strained Israel-Turkey relations - although I think Israeli officials have come to expect such

Ukraine must adjust the way it organizes, equips & thinks about the war, switching out head-on confrontation for an asymmetric, guerrilla-style approach that chips away at Russian resolve: foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/how-uk… Foreign Affairs

As illegal arrivals surge, Europe's far-right goes for broke:
The Great Replacement is happening
We're expelling millions of migrants
Governing party wants “more Caliphate”.
Islamists are taking control of the country
thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…
Will fear-mongers win on June 9?

As illegal arrivals surge, Europe's far-right goes for broke:
The Great Replacement is happening
We're expelling millions of migrants
Governing party wants “more Caliphate”.
Islamists are taking control of the country
thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…
Will fear-mongers win on June 9?

Tesla in front of me on the highway this morning had a bumper sticker on the back windshield that read 'I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy.'

Jewish settlers, a shady Australian developer & a defrocked priest sit at the heart of a massive real estate deal roiling Jerusalem’s ancient Armenian community: Amberin Zaman al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

The 'it can't be genocide because they have guns' argument is definitely gonna go big.

Ataturk: 'Why did I even try...'

Hamas is a US-labelled terror group with which a top US ally is currently at war, & while the phrasing was stunningly tone-deaf given the criticisms of Israel, it's reasonable to publicly want Hamas to be finished off.

So earlier this week I got diagnosed with pneumonia and I have to say holy fucking shit this is so awful I cannot in good conscience wish it on anyone besides Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

Hamas is a US-labelled terror group with which a top US ally is currently at war, & while the phrasing was stunningly tone-deaf given the criticisms of Israel, it's reasonable to publicly want Hamas to be finished off.

'There’s just one question on voting day,” Marion Maréchal said in recent speech. “Do you want an Islamized Europe or a European Europe?” Anti-migrant rhetoric is at a fever pitch as EU prepares to vote next week: my latest The National Comment thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…

Great to see Fahad Shah reporting again | Voter turnout reached its highest in decades, including 60% in north Kashmir & 54.3% in the south, as Kashmiris pushed back at the ballot box: csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Sou…

Ekrem İmamoğlu İstanbul'un Fethi'nin yıl dönümünde konuştu

'Bu şehre sahip çıkmak, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Han'ın yeni bir çağ açan değerlerine sahip çıkmaktır. Bu şehre sahip çıkmak İstanbul'u işgalden kurtarıp yeniden milletimize armağan eden Mustafa Kemal Atatürk'ün değerlerine