Americans: we hold all of you responsible. Get out in the streets and protest.

Once again, Israel’s apartheid system is turning the olive harvest into a season of horror for Palestinian families across the occupied West Bank. State-driven attacks by settlers on farmers that damage, destroy and steal crops, combined with Israeli military restrictions on access to groves, are causing immense suffering and economic loss for Palestinians. Read more 👇 amn.st/6015BHT553

Yes, so why did you start it off?

WATCH — @AbdulElSayed to ABC: “An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally… I think it’s time for us to realize Israel is not actually our friend.”

On what we’re witnessing among Britain’s liberal commentariat: For years, debate on Israel was policed by an electric fence. Step beyond the bounds of acceptable opinion and you got a small shock: the insinuation, or the outright charge, of antisemitism. Most people learned where the wire ran and kept inside it. But now the fence no longer works. We have watched a genocide livestreamed. We have seen what a supremacist ideology has always produced: apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and now genocide. Against that record, the old charge carries no current. Crucially, the liberal commentariat has not adjusted. They just keep frantically pressing the switch, but the fuse has blown and the shock never comes. The horror this racist ethnostate has produced is now impossible to avoid and the fence is down. History will not forget those who still stood guard at the fence, or how hard they worked to keep flipping a dud.

Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed shared his views on U.S.-Israel relations, saying he does not consider Israel an American ally: “I think it’s time for us to realize that Israel is not actually our friend.” Watch the full conversation tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ABC News Live Prime’s “All Access with Linsey Davis” streaming on @disneyplus and @hulu.

BREAKING: The U.S. is now preparing to completely abandon Gulf countries, as Trump envoy Tom Barrack directly warns Gulf allies that Washington can no longer guarantee their security indefinitely, telling regional officials in Doha that they must take responsibility for their own defense, signalling the end of the U.S. security umbrella in the Middle East, per the Wall Street Journal. Barrack said the 80-year-old U.S. security-for-oil arrangement is no longer sustainable, pointing to regional defense partnerships as the way forward. The warning comes as Gulf states face Iranian strikes on U.S. military infrastructure and growing uncertainty over Washington’s future military commitment to the region.

Great response by @AbdulElSayed. It needs to be said more often how Trump weaponizes Islamophobia for political gain at home while cozying up to Saudi, Emirati, Qatari rulers abroad, in large part to enrich himself. The sheer self-serving cynicism of it all!

Another day, another pillar of American power dismantled by Donald Trump. In Doha, Trump’s envoy announced that Washington is abandoning its traditional oil-for-security arrangement with the Gulf states, urging them to build their own regional security partnerships. For decades, American influence rested on something far more valuable than military strength: the willingness of other nations to trust the United States. Trump is systematically destroying that trust, from Europe and Ukraine to the Middle East. Historian Timothy Snyder calls it “superpower suicide”, observing that empires have collapsed before, but never, to his knowledge, has a state deliberately destroyed its own power with such extraordinary speed. The remarkable thing is that America’s enemies have barely had to lift a finger. Trump is doing their work for them. History will struggle to find another superpower that surrendered so much influence, so quickly, and called it winning.

Since September, the Saudi war in Yemen has displaced at least 130,000 people from their homes. A staggering 17 million people face hunger. Britain's support for this catastrophic war - and its complicity in horrendous suffering - must end. Where is the strategy for peace?

It’s not complicated: if the government has nothing to hide, then why block our efforts to expose the truth?

It's beautiful that Staten Island voted against him and he gave them childcare anyway

- Norgespris skulle beskytte folk mot børsstyrte strømpriser. Nå kan ordningen bli en brekkstang for å lære folk å leve med de skyhøye prisene, og for at markedsprisene skal dra opp norgesprisen. Da blir poenget med ordningen sakte, men sikkert borte, nettavisen.no/okonomi/norges…

Ganske uklart hva det diplomatiske toppmøtet om Ukraina i Norge har oppnådd?

Stem Nei 😊

There were some reluctant slave owners, so slavery wasn't racist. There were some diffident apartheid supporters, so South African apartheid wasn't racist. There are some conflicted Zionists, so Zionism isn't racist. The state of political debate in 2026.

BREAKING: Iran is deliberately prolonging talks with the US to deny Trump a political victory ahead of the November midterms, and is not looking for any deal, per three senior Iranian officials to Reuters. "Iran is preparing for renewed Israeli and US attacks, not for a deal with America to end the war," the officials say. "The clerical establishment is determined not to give Trump a political victory." The officials say Iran is convinced Trump is ready to restart major attacks to break the stalemate.

A new report in Haaretz brings new sources and quotes on how and why the settlers wield so much power over the IDF. Commanders in the West Bank have completely given up control over the situation ot the settlers: 1)Commanders are afraid to confront settler leaders or to act against soldiers and civilians who attack Palestinians. They fear attacks from right-wing ministers and MKs, and they fear Defense Minister Israel Katz will interfere in their promotions. Sources say that fear reaches field-level ranks. 2) Settlement council heads have direct, ongoing contact with brigade and division commanders, and sometimes with political leaders. Sources say these ties have gone beyond security coordination and become a center of power that shapes the army's priorities. 3) The IDF has the forces to reach incidents quickly. Sources say the issue is often not how long it takes to arrive, but whether commanders see violence against Palestinians as something that needs immediate intervention. 4) In March, soldiers from the Haredi reservist Battalion 941 attacked a CNN crew. Bluth suspended the battalion from operations, but its commanders were not removed. That same night the brigade commander visited the soldiers, encouraged them and prayed with them. Sources say this was partly a signal to politicians and settler leaders that commanders stand with the troops. 5) When soldiers or reservists are involved in shootings, the IDF and police often argue over who should investigate. Neither wants to be the one to arrest a soldier who could end up convicted and imprisoned. "Every commander and senior officer knows that arresting a soldier on suspicion of killing a Palestinian could, within hours, become the next Elor Azaria affair," a security source said. 6) Commanders tell senior officers they are afraid to use force against settlers. More and more soldiers report being physically attacked and threatened at friction points. The IDF has completely given up control over West Bank policy. Settlers are the real bosses there.

A war meant to limit Iranian hegemony in the Middle East may have instead enabled it. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/19…

My friends always ask me where I learned to see the future. Here is March 7…

BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters. Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards. And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.