The latest “proposal includes an effort to end the war in 30 days, the withdrawal of American forces from Iran, removal of sanctions on Iranian assets, reparations payments, end to fighting in Lebanon and … follows a staunch rebuke to its response to the U.S. agreement submitted over the weekend”:
“It is now being reported by the Wall Street Journal that the UAE carried out a covert strike on Iran’s Lavan Island refinery on April 8, causing major damage to the site”:
“Trump handed Blanche a stack of articles he viewed as threats to national security, marked with a sticky note reading ‘treason’”:
“Direct military costs have exceeded $70 billion by one estimate, and Americans have paid more than $37 billion in higher energy costs since the war began”:
Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue …
- Palestine Weekly Wrap: Israeli Settlers Rampage Through West Bank Villages (Aljazeera)
- Israel Approves Law on Public Trials, Death Penalty for October 7 Detainees (Aljazeera)
… and Europe finally takes note:
- EU Puts Sanctions on Israeli Settlers After Hungary Drops Orban’s Veto (Washington Post)
“[I]n any divided society, there are people positioned to be the one in the room, whether by circumstance or preparation. The only Muslim. The only child of immigrants. The only person at the table holding two worlds at once and refusing to abandon either”:
- What Belfast Taught Me About Being a Muslim in America (Interfaith America)
“Pakistan has long tried to maintain a difficult balancing act between its security relationship with the United States and its ties with neighboring Iran, a key regional player that shares a roughly 565-mile border with Pakistan”:
“National average for gas prices has risen by well over a dollar a gallon since late February,” more than ffive times the federal gas tax of “18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline … and 24.4 cents for diesel”:
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