News and Analysis 3/2/25

“In … Rafah, where a monthslong Israeli military operation took place since last summer, Palestinians set strings of lights across the ruins of damaged buildings and a table stretching across the road for Iftar during sunset”:

In what critics see as a gift to the Trump administration’s sanctions program, Iran’s hard-line legislators scapegoat the finance minister for the inflation caused by their own legislation …

… yet “[f]orty-six years of aggressive economic punishment have, perversely, only entrenched the ayatollahs” …

… while Trump’s spat with Zelensky prompts Khamenei to post, “The first lesson from the situation in Ukraine is that Western support for countries and governments that are their puppets is a mirage”:

The “founding director of the Tayba Foundation … believes many are converting while incarcerated because there is so much physical and spiritual confinement in prison and people find spiritual freedom within the faith”:

Israeli war crimes continue:

Its sponsor says the bill is “designed to shield residents from harassment and forced evictions from land they have inhabited for decades”:

“Joseph Czuba faces life in prison for the murder of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi days after Israel’s war on Gaza began”:

“Like all of the daring Iranian films made underground in the last few years, ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ could not be released in Iran and instead was distributed internationally”:

“While local leaders supporting the ban argue that it upholds Hindu traditions during the yatra, critics … warn that such restrictions violate fundamental rights and could set a dangerous precedent for communal harmony in the region”:


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