News and Analysis 8/3/25

U.S. sanctions on the PA and PLO are a desperate symbolic gesture of support for Israel from an administration that will do nothing to end the genocide or relieve the famine in Gaza:

Ten years in prison for jokingly texting a “friend that he had joined the RSF, before he directly denied it in the same conversation” is just one of the “rulings that independent human rights expert Radwan Nuwaiser has described as ‘harsh and lacks judicial safeguards’”:

Israeli war crimes continue:

There have been “nearly 2,140 cases and at least 80 fatalities as of 30 July”:

“If the US and Israel are sincere about preventing Iran acquiring the bomb, they should set an example and reduce, and ultimately eliminate, their nuclear arsenals”:

“I wore a headscarf to honor a fallen Muslim NYPD officer at his funeral. Respecting a grieving family’s faith is ‘wut’ leaders and anyone with basic decency would do” — NY Governor Kathy Hochul

“[T]he sides also discussed Pakistan acting as an intermediary between Washington and Tehran, among other countries trying to ease tensions between archenemies”:

“New South Wales police said up to 90,000 people had attended, far more than expected”:

“Neither country understood that the age of colonialism was over” when Britain and France signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement that many consider to “seeded a legacy of strife in the Middle East”:


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