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1 week ago | 
thenation.com | Assal Rad
Society / April 14, 2025 Israel’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s FailuresIsrael has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months. Ad Policy
People walk among the rubble of the residential buildings targeted in Israel’s attack on Gaza on April 9, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
dawnmena.org | Assal Rad
It is often said that hindsight is 20/20, that we understand something better after it has already happened. That is certainly the case with the war in Iraq, which had support across the political spectrum in Washington and among the majority of Americans in the lead-up to the invasion, 22 years ago this month. Years later, the consensus is clear that the war was a significant U.S. blunder, launched based on fabrications and lies from George W. Bush's administration.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Assal Rad
When a poll in March showed that only about half of Americans could correctly answer that more Palestinians had been killed in the war on Gaza than Israelis, many of those who have been following the conflict were stunned. After all, the gap between Israeli and Palestinian deaths is enormous. By early March, Israel’s war on Gaza had killed more than 31,000 Palestinians.
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May 20, 2024 | 
trtworld.com | Assal Rad
Accusing anyone and anything of being Hamas is Israel's favourite defence from criticism. This strategy may have served them well in the past, but now it is crumbling. This was made apparent earlier this month when Israel's national security minister lashed out at US President Joe Biden for pausing certain arms shipments amid an impending Rafah incursion. "Hamas 'loves' Biden," asserted Itamar Ben-Gvir on X. In some ways, Ben-Gvir's invocation of "Hamas" came as no surprise.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
trtworld.com | Assal Rad
On April 1, Israel bombed an Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, killing several people including commanders in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
trtafrika.com | Assal Rad
By Assal RadAfter vetoing three separate United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, the United States finally abstained from voting in the latest ceasefire resolution, allowing its passage. The resolution signifies the appearance of progress on the US position and spurred backlash from Israel (the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly cancelled a planned delegation to the US after it refrained from using its veto power a fourth time.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
trtworld.com | Assal Rad
After vetoing three separate United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, the United States finally abstained from voting in the latest ceasefire resolution, allowing its passage. The resolution signifies the appearance of progress on the US position and spurred backlash from Israel (the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly cancelled a planned delegation to the US after it refrained from using its veto power a fourth time.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
trtworld.com | Assal Rad
For the third time in four months, the United States has vetoed a United Nations resolution calling on Israel to establish a ceasefire in Gaza. The move comes as the death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 29,000 people - mostly women and children. Nearly 70,000 people are injured and still thousands more are unaccounted for under the rubble.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
trtworld.com | Assal Rad
After months of witnessing the unfolding devastation and destruction unleashed by Israel on Gaza, with the full backing of the United States and the apparent inability of the international community to stop the killing, the world anxiously anticipated the ruling of the International Court of Justice last week.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
trtworld.com | Assal Rad
Just two weeks after taking office, United States President Joe Biden in his remarks to the State Department, “the message I want the world to hear today: America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the centre of our foreign policy.” Biden’s assertion was intended to show a distinct change from former President Donald Trump’s administration, which Biden had spent years harshly criticising before his own election in 2020.
