Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
Resource scarcity, neo-feudalism, perpetual conflict: Denis Villeneuve’s film is not a fantasy but an epiphany of the present.
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War and the West Bank
Settler violence in the occupied territory is intensifying, and Palestinian deaths are mounting.
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The West is revealing its hand to Putin
Emmanuel Macron’s threats to send ground troops to Ukraine only exposes Europe’s deepening divisions over the war.
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The forgotten wars
This century’s deadliest conflicts aren’t taking place in Ukraine or Gaza.
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Layla Moran: “I’m searching for kernels of hope in the rubble”
The Liberal Democrat MP on polarisation and her relatives trapped in Gaza.
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Time is running out in Gaza
Israel’s war is coming to a crunch point.
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John Mearsheimer: “The Israel lobby is as powerful as ever”
The American international relations scholar on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and power competition in the Middle East.
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The fractured reality of Israel’s war in Gaza
From the ICJ ruling to the defunding of UNRWA, global divisions over the conflict are becoming further entrenched.
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Who is winning?
Parsing the narrative shifts in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Former Israeli prime minister: “Time to stop the war”
Ehud Olmert on the war in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future and the possibility of a two-state solution.
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The slipperiness of ceasefire
Why the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
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How Israel’s war spread to the Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthis are allies of Iran but not proxies. They believe they are carrying out the will of God.
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The chaos of Israel’s postwar plan
No one in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government can agree what “the day after” should look like.
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“They want monsters”
This has been the most violent year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank.
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What the left gets wrong about Gaza and “decolonisation”
The West needs to remember that not all freedom movements are progressive or democratic.
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UN commissioner: “Gazans could start dying of hunger”
Philippe Lazzarini on the worsening refugee crisis in Gaza.
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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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This Christmas, it is hard to watch as our ancestral lands fragment
Israelis, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Armenians around the world have had to witness horrifying events from afar.
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Israelis and Palestinians have been taken back to the traumas of 1948
Reporting from the front line in Gaza, I have seen the destruction wrought on all sides by this long conflict.
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What should Ukraine do next?
If it wants long-term Western support, Kyiv needs to show that it has a coherent war strategy.
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