Black Sunday: reckoning with October 7 a year later October 7 was the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. Some refer to it as Israel's 9/11, though proportionally it was like ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
'Blood! Blood! Blood!': the Battle of Fallujah twenty years on The National Museum of the Marine Corps has built a replica of a street in Fallujah, the Iraqi city that American forces half-destroyed in ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
Israel neutralizes Hamas's military capacity in Gaza Has Hamas finally been defeated in Gaza, nearly a year after it launched the most deadly attack in Israel's history? spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 37 days 37d Share
Israelis have tired of Benjamin Netanyahu Under Netanyahu, the army has suffered cuts to its budget and size. Leading up to October 7, forces were also diverted to the West Bank ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 41 days 41d Share
Netanyahu's unenviable dilemma on Gaza The murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas in Gaza earlier this week led to an outpouring of grief and fury in Israel ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 44 days 44d Share
Why Israelis are blaming Netanyahu for the six hostage deaths The heartbreaking news that the Israeli Defense Forces have recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages has caused rage in Israel ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 46 days 46d Share
Why the ICC is right to pursue Benjamin Netanyahu The ICC only deals with serious breaches of international law and the people it has indicted had committed crimes against humanity ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 47 days 47d Share
The US should stop raising false hope of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire The months-long ceasefire and hostage release negotiations between Israel and Hamas have been the diplomatic equivalent of Groundhog Day ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 52 days 52d Share
The peril of ignoring the Taliban The Taliban have always had a strange misogynist world view, weirdly preoccupied by sex. The first time they were in power in Afghanistan in ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 53 days 53d Share
Why Iran and Hezbollah want to avoid a war with Israel Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah appeared to hint that the organization may consider the day's rocket launches sufficient to constitute ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-middle-east / / #news / / 53 days 53d Share