The Fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: What it Means

December 9, 2024

Deepak Tripathi

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, marking the end of more than 50 years of the Assad dynasty (1971 – 2024), is a dramatic event in the Middle East. It is difficult to make definite short- and long-term predictions in the wake of such a momentous event. But it deserves a brief comment about what may lie ahead.

 

Israel expands occupation of Golan Heights as Assad's government falls

December 8, 2024

Israel deployed tanks and troops to occupy the buffer zone in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on 8 December following the fall of the Syrian government to foreign-backed extremist groups overnight.

 

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is fully intentional, and other takeaways from the Amnesty International report

December 7, 2024

Jonathan Ofir

Wednesday, a landmark report was issued by Amnesty International, titled: ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.” 

Displaced Palestinians flee past Israeli tanks following military orders to leave Khan Younis and go toward Rafah near the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (Photo: Haitham Imad/EFE via ZUMA Press APA Images)

How a hostage family leader became one of the loudest anti-war voices in Israel

December 6, 2024

Edo Konrad and Oren Ziv

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    When Ayala Metzger walks among the ghosts of Nir Oz, it almost feels like she isn’t quite sure whose story she wants to tell first. For the better part of the last year, she has been regularly leading tours along the dusty paths between the kibbutz’s gutted low-rise homes, located just four kilometers from the Gaza Strip. To anyone who will listen, she recounts what happened here on the morning of October 7 in vivid detail, like a forensic scientist reconstructing a crime scene.

Ayala Metzger sits in a cage to symbolize the Israeli hostages’ captivity in Gaza during a protest in central Tel Aviv, March 27, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Gaza ceasefire talks resume – Hamas

December 6, 2024

International mediators have renewed negotiations with Hamas and Israel to halt the conflict in Gaza, according to the militant group’s senior official, Bassem Naim, as cited by the Associated Press.

 

Palestinians flee towards Gaza City from Beit Lahia, Gaza, December 04, 2024. © Getty Images / Mahmoud Isleem/Anadolu

Hama city falls to Syrian rebels as advance continues

December 5, 2024

Alex MacDonald and Harun al-Aswad

Syrian rebels have taken control of the central city of Hama as their shock advance across the country continues.

An anti-government fighter covers his ears as a multi-barrel rocket launcher fires against government forces, in the northern outskirts of Syria's west-central city of Hama on 4 December 2024 (Bakr al-Kassem / AFP)

Challenge to California Top-Two Election System in Federal Court filed

December 1, 2024

Two election attorneys challenged the top-two system in Federal Court in Oakland, California on Thursday, November 21, 2024. David L. Shoen of Montgomery, Alabama, and Seyeun D. Choi of Foster City, California filed a complaint asking that California’s “Top-Two” election system be struck down as unconstitutional.

(The 12-page complaint in its entirety may be read here.) 

Gazans face extreme hunger as ‘real famine’ spreads from north to south

December 4, 2024

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

Mustafa Al-Darsh, a 35-year-old father of three from Gaza City, spends hours every day searching for food for his family. Some days, he manages to secure a few canned goods; other days, his family has to settle for plain rice. “In the north, we yearn to eat bread with some thyme,” he told +972. He hasn’t been able to find flour for months.

Displaced Palestinians line up to receive a meal in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 29, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Bankrupting the Planet: The Trump Tempest

December 4, 2024

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016.

No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances.

Two times as the president of these increasingly disunited states of America? Holy cowpie!

'Unsettling New Milestone': Top 12 US Billionaires Now Control $2 Trillion in Wealth

December 4, 2024

Eloise Goldsmith

Just 12 U.S. billionaires now have a collective net worth of over $2 trillion—a figure that amounts to a little less than a third of total federal spending in 2023—according to an analysis out Tuesday from Inequality.org, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

‘We are human’: Surviving 423 days of genocide in Gaza

December 3, 2024

Hunger. Cold. Thirst. Disease. These are the daily realities of life in Gaza, where for the past 423 days, Israel has unleashed a genocide that will come to define our contemporary era. As Palestinians struggle to meet their daily needs, they are also faced with a battle to preserve their memories and dignity. Over the past year, journalist and filmmaker Ruwaida Amer has produced numerous powerful, heart-wrenching documentary reports for TRNN from the rubble and ruins of Gaza, shining a light on the darkest realities of Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians, even as she herself suffers from—and struggles to survive—the onslaught. Calling in from Gaza, Amer joins The Marc Steiner Show to share an honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the midst of genocide.

 

 A Palestinian boy sits over a torn UNRWA sticker in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on December 2, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas militants. Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images

چه کسی پشت شعله ور شدن جنگ جدید سور یه قرار دارد؟

بقلم مراد صدیق زاده رئیس مرکز مطالعات خاورمیانه و مدرس مدعو در دانشگاه مسکو

بیست و نه نوامبر ۲۰۲۴

نهم آذر ۱۴۰۳

تارنمای آرتی

برگردان، کوتاه سازی و تنظیم سپیده دم

Sepidehdamaliasghar@gmail.com

 

Eight Days in Palestine

December 2, 2024

Matthew Huh

I’m back in Jordan after eight days in Palestine. I was in Palestine as part of a delegation to be in solidarity with and learn from those engaged in Palestinian liberation. We visited and had dialogues with Palestinians and Israelis in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah and Sderot. We sat, listened to and spoke with Christians, Jews, Muslims and non-believers. We went to the Gaza border.

LIVE BLOG: ‘Tightly Coordinated Ambushes’ | Yemeni Missile | Massacre in Beit Lahia – Day 422

December1, 2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
44,382	105,142	10,000

-Four people were slightly injured as they rushed to the shelters as sirens sounded in central Israel following the launch of a missile from Yemen.

-Two children were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a tent housing displaced persons southwest of Al Mawasi in Khan Yunis.

-According to the Palestinian Health Ministry (Gaza), 44,382 Palestinians have been killed, and 105,142 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

 

اندیشیدن به غیرقابل تصور

 بیست و هشتم نوامبر ۲۰۲۴

هشتم آذر ۱۴۰۳

داود دشتبانی

انقلاب ایران به‌زعم جامعه‌شناسان یکی از انقلاب‌های بزرگ تاریخ معاصر جهان است که در زمره انقلاب‌های کلاسیک چون انقلاب فرانسه و روسیه شمرده می‌شود. این انقلاب در عین اینکه موضوع مطالعات فراوان بوده به تئوری‌های توطئه نیز دامن زده است. گروهی از هواداران سلطنت در ایران، کنفرانس گوادلوپ را توطئه قدرت‌های جهانی برای سرنگونی محمدرضاشاه پهلوی می‌دانند اما این کنفرانس چه بود و چگونه می‌توانست به سرنگونی رژیمی قدرتمند که تا چندی پیش از آن، توسط رئیس‌جمهور آمریکا جزیره ثبات معرفی شده بود، کمک کند؟

LIVE: Israel killed 19 Palestinians in Gaza in past 24 hours

November 30, 2024

Urooba Jamal and Mersiha Gadzo

Terrorists attack Iranian consulate in Syria – Tehran

November 30, 2024

Iran’s consulate in the Syrian city of Aleppo has come under attack by “some terrorist elements,” the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry claimed on Saturday. A former local Al Qaeda affiliate launched a major offensive against the city this week.

How Palestinian popular resistance became a global movement

November 29, 2024

Mandy Turner

Today, 29 November, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

There is a long history of solidarity with Palestinians from countries and movements struggling against colonialism and oppression across the world - especially from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

 

 Members of the Palestinian community in Chile participate in a car caravan on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at Plaza Italia square in Santiago on 29 November 2023 (Javier Torres/AFP)

PHOTOS: Rainstorm devastates Khan Younis displacement camp

November29, 2024

Doaa Albaz

The first heavy rainfall of winter arrived in Gaza this week, flooding tent encampments across the besieged Strip. With approximately 90 percent of the enclave’s population having been displaced from their homes, often several times, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are living in makeshift tents that are ill-equipped to withstand the elements. Gaza’s Government Media Office estimates that around 10,000 tents were either washed away or damaged due to this week’s storm.

 

Seawater damages the tents of displaced people on the beach in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 25, 2024. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills) 

Diaries from north Gaza: one woman’s story of survival

November29, 2024

Sondos Sabra

Since October 7, 2023, Sondos Sabra has kept a diary of the genocide. These entries serve as a window into her life and the universal Gazan story of what it means to survive. "I remember that I remember, and I will not have that memory erased."

 

Palestinians inspect the damage in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip after Israeli shelling of the camp stopped on November 29, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)