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Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented an imperialist horror show. An American and an Israeli, each with his own criminal indictments, decided to determine the future of the Palestinian people.

Hamas says it will halt its captive releases until Israel complies with the terms of the ceasefire agreed between them.

Trump's plan to relocate two million Palestinians ensnares the leaders of all Middle Eastern countries, not just Egypt and Jordan, in a dilemma fraught with threats. In doing so, he fostered a new sense of Arab unity

The only war that resembled this was the 1948 war that caused the Nakba, the motivations behind that war were different. That was a war to establish a Jewish state; this is a war to establish a fascist state. The State of Kahane has risen in Israel.

Yesterday, a ceasefire and peace agreement was reached between Hamas and the Israeli government, which has been supported and armed by the United States. Today Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not send the peace agreement to a vote in the Cabinet,

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There's the bad news – apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority–and there's more bad news: Over half of Palestinians still back the October 7 attack. Recent polls show that's not the whole story.

Aggressively anti-Palestinian appointees, who tend to describe all campus protesters as Hamas supporters, will soon steer both foreign and domestic policy, creating a Trump administration united in seeking a crackdown on the pro-Palestinian movement.

The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Israeli and U.S. propaganda, and why cultural figures must take a public stance on Palestinian rights.

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