Editor's Notes: The billionaire who thinks he can rebuild Gaza
Within days of October 7th, he was drafting what would become the reconstruction plan now attached to US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” framework for Gaza.
Within days of October 7th, he was drafting what would become the reconstruction plan now attached to US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” framework for Gaza.
To ignore the spread of antisemitism at a gathering that claims to champion global cooperation would be a moral and strategic failure.
Phase two of the ceasefire rests on a dangerous misreading of how wars in the Middle East actually end.
The question the world must now ask is not about American power, but about Guterres’s abuse of power.
Under Trump, America is actively dismantling the global order it erected in the wake of World War II.
The invitation is about structure, power, and a deliberate attempt to reshape the global order.
To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents.
Trump now has the opportunity to set a different precedent – one that distinguishes accommodation from endorsement, and allies who constrain instability from strongmen who monetize it.
The key to victory is through Jewish-Arab political cooperation.
UNRWA’s defenders abroad often describe it as a humanitarian body caught in a political storm. Israel’s view is sharper: the agency became part of the problem.
Without context, the move to demolish UNRWA’s east Jerusalem headquarters looks like just another incident of Israeli hard-heartedness - an attack on a UN body that wants only to help.