The olive harvest season in Palestine coincides annually with an escalation of incitement campaigns against Palestinian farmers, turning this occasion into an arena for media and on-the-ground confrontations.

Amir Ohana is the first openly gay Speaker of the Knesset; he lives with another man and they have adopted twins, and his election to the position has drawn sharp criticism from rabbis and ultra-Orthodox officials who refuse to shake his hand.

As pressure mounts on Hezbollah from both inside Lebanon and abroad, the group’s deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem made a striking overture to Riyadh, urging Saudi Arabia to turn the page and rally around a common enemy: the Israeli Occupation.

"Tel Aviv’s" airstrikes and threats if Syria didn’t pull its troops from Sweida—and its move to portray itself as the protector of southern Syria—revealed a broader Israeli plan to reshape the regional order through minority groups.

Iran’s June 23, 2025 strike on a U.S. base in the Gulf immediately brought to mind the retaliation for Qassem Soleimani’s assassination; a move that reshuffled the strategic balance.