❝ How little we have learnt. ■ I covered the Middle East when Saddam was America’s friend. The bloodletting hasn’t stopped ❞ — Geraldine Brooks
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❝ How little we have learnt. ■ I covered the Middle East when Saddam was America’s friend. The bloodletting hasn’t stopped ❞ — Geraldine Brooks
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❝ There are no more red lines for Tehran - just a slow, calculated strategy to exploit the blind spots of Washington and its allies ❞ — Marco Carnelos
❝ For the first time since 1956, Israel is fighting with a Western hegemon for regime change in a war whose political repercussions are far from certain. ❞ — Meron Rapoport
❝ Israelis believe that Israel and the U.S. are fighting for democracy, freedom and human rights in Iran, but if human rights were their guiding principle, the state of affairs would not be as it is in the West Bank, and the Gaza war would not have reached the dimensions of genocid ❞ — Hanin Majadli
Title: Lap dog.
Illustrator: Alan Moir • The Age • March 06, 2026
❝ Israel's war of regional supremacy and violent expansionist vision will not end with Iran – it will turn towards Arab Gulf states next.
Israel is betting on the weakness of the Arab states to defend themselves, and is seeking to weaken them further. ❞
— David Hearst
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❝ This conflict could prove to be Washington's most perilous adventure yet - the classic story of a superpower overreaching ❞ — Soumaya Ghannoushi
❝ It claims the fanatics are Hamas and Iran - but increasingly, Israel itself is embarking on a religious crusade ❞ — Lubna Masarwa
An analysis by @theintercept.com finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
Operation Epic Deception
[Illustration: Kivara Ammar]
A US military watchdog has been “inundated” with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war.
Former U.S. Middle East Officials Say Trump Has “No Clear Plan” on Iran
Falsely accused of antisemitism over a doctored clip, Francesca Albanese, the UN rapporteur, remains under attack for demanding sanctions and accountability for Israel's genocide in Gaza
❝ There is no clear rationale from Washington because the author of this attack is not to be found in either the White House or the Pentagon. This plan was cooked up in Tel Aviv decades ago. ❞ — Jonathan Cook
From October 7 to Iran, the Israeli government has used successive states of emergency to render individual thinking redundant, explains Dr. Dana Amir.
Trump's Operation Epic Failure
No matter how desperately our politicians try to convince us otherwise, Israel isn't good for us. The new U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which Americans overwhelmingly do not want, is the latest proof of that. It's time for us to end the relationship.
❝ Many of President Trump’s stated justifications for the US and Israeli war on Iran are demonstrably false. ❞ — Stephen Zuness
❝ The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has been built on lies. Here is the truth about Iran's nuclear weapons program, the claim that Iran was an imminent threat, and the lie that Trump has a plan for what happens next. ❞ — Mitchell Plitnick
❝ I resigned from the intelligence services over the fraudulent case for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And I see some alarming parallels with this case ❞ — Andrew Wilkie • Australian MP
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❝ The precedent being set by the US in launching this war of aggression against Iran will long live in infamy.❞ — Richard Falk
The editor-in-chief of Independent Arabia suggested in a television interview on Tuesday that not all attacks on the Gulf states may be coming from Iran, and that the US and Israel could lure them into the war, only to later abandon them.
Gavin Newsom says: No choice but to reconsider U.S. aid
❝ California Gov. Gavin Newsom, widely considered the frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, offered his sharpest criticism of Israel to date, likening it to "sort of an apartheid state" ❞
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❝ The war stands to affect countries worldwide. With hostilities causing oil prices to sharply rise, should the conflict continue with no ceasefire coming into effect soon, there is every reason to expect inflation to return, along with other factors that may harm the global economy’s health. ❞
❝ For this to happen, the Gulf has to find a third path of “Gulf First”, not Israel or America First. This means proactively choosing and shaping its own destiny, rather than being a pawn in someone else’s agenda. The current crisis could thus inadvertently become another defining Gulf moment. ❞
Forty countries gathered in The Hague to discuss coordinated measures aimed at enforcing international law in Palestine, as governments warn that Israel’s expanding settlement activity in the occupied West Bank amounts to de facto annexation.
In striking Iran, Israel inches ever closer to 'might makes right' as a policy
– Ofer Cassif
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Hours before the war began, Oman’s foreign minister - the chief mediator in US-Iran negotiations - told CBS a deal could be reached ‘tomorrow’ and warned that it would be derailed by military action.
