This Week In Palestine

The war that Israel does not want to end has become the engine of its political survival. A war stretched across decades, fueled by fear, sustained by ambition, and kept alive by leaders who understand that conflict is the one thing that keeps them in power. Every ceasefire proposal is dismissed. Every diplomatic effort is undermined. Every attempt by the world to stop the bloodshed is met with an...

The war that was never supposed to end became the foundation of an entire political empire. A war stretched across decades, fueled by fear, sustained by ambition, and kept alive by leaders who understood that conflict can be the most profitable currency of all. Israel and Netanyahu built their power on that endless war — a war that pulled America into battles it never needed, never wanted, and nev...

Israel and Netanyahu spent years shaping Donald Trump’s worldview, nudging him step by step toward confrontation with Iran, convincing him that war was strategy, that escalation was strength, that their enemies must become America’s enemies too.  But the moment he shifted course, the moment he opened the door to a peace process, the same forces that once praised him turned against him without hesi...

Some people are born into truth.  Others are born into stories, stories so powerful and so carefully constructed that they become a kind of inheritance.  And then there are those rare few who grow up inside the wrong environment, inside the wrong narrative, inside the wrong version of history, and still find the courage to walk out of it. This is the story of a man who did exactly that. Miko Peled...

Chaos in the Gulf did not appear out of thin air.  It did not rise like a sudden storm.  It is the result of choices, our choices, the architecture of a foreign policy that treated the region like a chessboard and assumed the pieces would never push back. Today, the Gulf is trembling because we helped build the conditions for that tremble.  We placed bases everywhere, promised protection to everyo...

The war on Iran is no longer a distant conflict unfolding on someone else’s horizon. It is reshaping America itself. It is bending our foreign policy, straining our alliances, and exposing the limits of a superpower that once believed it could dictate the direction of the Middle East with a single announcement. For decades, Washington operated under the assumption that its influence in the region...

There are moments in history when a visit meant to project strength ends up revealing something very different. President Trump’s recent trip to China was one of those moments, a visit wrapped in ceremony but hollow in outcome, a visit that left more questions than answers. And when the cameras stopped rolling, when the speeches were over, what lingered was not triumph but frustration. The anger c...

A newborn baby.  Tiny fingers.  A mother’s trembling smile.  The quiet miracle of life arriving in a world that does not deserve it. Caroline Leavitt welcomed her daughter into that miracle,  a moment every parent understands,  a moment that softens even the hardest truths. And yet, in that same breath, she defended the killing of 168 girls in Iran.  One mother celebrating new life,  while justify...

There are moments in history when a nation begins to tremble,  not because an enemy has breached its walls,  but because the truth has finally breached its story.  Today, we step into one of those moments. This episode is not about predictions.  It is not about wishes.  It is about the unmistakable signs of a system straining under its own weight.  A story of a state confronting the limits of its...

Imagine this for a moment.  You live in a home that has been in your family for generations.  A home built with your parents’ hands, filled with your children’s laughter, rooted in the soil where your memories grow. You plant flowers in the front yard. You tend to an olive tree in the back. You raise your family with the quiet dignity that comes from belonging to a place that belongs to you. Now i...

Before you begin listening to today’s program, I want to return to a pattern we’ve been noticing in recent conversations. A pattern of contradictions delivered within the same breath. One moment we hear that the conflict is ending, and in the next, that it is escalating. One moment there are negotiations, and the next, threats of wiping someone off the map. One moment we are told the Strait of Hor...

Today, we open with three voices, three videos, three warnings echoing across the digital world. Each comes from a different creator, a different background, a different corner of the political landscape. And yet, together, they reveal something deeper about the moment we are living in. Something unsettling. Something urgent. Something we can no longer afford to ignore. The first voice comes from...

So here we are, standing in the aftermath of a war that was never meant to be ours, a war that many people across this country still cannot explain, still cannot justify, and still cannot understand. A war that began with shifting statements, inconsistent explanations, and a trail of confusion that left the American public asking the same question over and over again: How did we end up here? We we...

So here we are, standing in a moment where the news about Palestine is fading from the headlines, even though the genocide has not stopped for a single day. The suffering continues, the destruction continues, the displacement continues, but the media has succeeded in shifting the world’s attention somewhere else. They’ve redirected the spotlight, and now the entire national conversation revolves a...

In 1948, an entire world was overturned.  Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were uprooted from their homes, families pushed into exile, villages emptied, communities scattered across borders they never chose.  Homes were left behind with the doors still open, meals still on the table, keys still in the hands of those who believed they would return in a few days.  More than 400 towns and villag...

What is happening to our leadership, and why are we letting people with no shame, no accountability, and no sense of responsibility shape our lives? There was a time when authority meant example.   A supervisor, a manager, a leader someone you could look to for clarity, steadiness, and integrity. But today, many people feel they are living under leaders who lie openly, contradict themselves public...

Today, we turn to another critical conversation, one that widens the lens beyond Palestine and into the escalating war between the United States and Iran. Retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a former Pentagon adviser known for his blunt strategic assessments, joined geopolitical analyst Cyrus Janssen to examine what they call the most dangerous phase of the conflict. Their discussion, titled “Worst...

Across the hills and valleys of the West Bank, life for Palestinians unfolds under a system of control that touches every hour of every day. Checkpoints carve the land into fragments. Settlements expand across hilltops once covered with olive trees. Roads are restricted, movement is monitored, and entire communities live with the constant uncertainty of raids, demolitions, and military presence. W...

Today, we open with a truth that has shaped every conversation we’ve had on this show: the Palestinian tragedy is not a moment in history, it is a living wound. A wound carried by families in Gaza, in the West Bank, in refugee camps, and in every home that has watched a child grow up under occupation. And yet, even as the suffering deepens, the world’s attention drifts. Headlines fade. Newsrooms s...

The Palestinian tragedy stretches across generations; a wound carried in the open for the world to see yet so often ignored. Entire communities have been uprooted, cities shattered, and families torn apart, while the global news cycle moves on as if grief has an expiration date. The media, once trusted to bear witness, has repeatedly failed them reducing a people’s suffering to fleeting headlines,...

Today we turn to a YouTube video that has resurfaced with renewed relevance: “Israel Does Not Target the Palestinian Civilians.”  The video, originally uploaded more than a decade ago, challenges one of Israel’s most frequently repeated claims that its military avoids harming civilians.  Through archival footage and documented incidents, it highlights a long‑standing pattern of civilian casualties...

When the Story Becomes the Weapon Today, we open with the reality the world keeps trying to rename. On Saturday, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least thirty‑two Palestinians—lives added to the more than five hundred already lost during what officials insisted on calling a “ceasefire.” A ceasefire in name only. One that never reached the families sheltering in shattered buildings, never r...

Today, we open with a conversation that cuts straight through the noise. Across social media and mainstream platforms, polished narratives about Israel’s history circulate with confidence, often delivered by high‑profile commentators who speak with certainty but not always with accuracy. One of the loudest among them is Ben Shapiro, whose claims about the origins of the conflict, the Nakba, and Pa...

What we are witnessing today is a moment many anticipated, and one that others are only now beginning to grasp. Gaza, in the eyes of powerful political and financial actors, is being treated less like a home for two million people and more like a prize handed to the highest bidder. The narrative emerging from the Trump circle, echoed by the wealthy investors around him, frames Gaza as a future dev...

We all agree that antisemitism is wrong. There is no debate on that point. Hatred toward Jewish people, or toward any community because of who they are, is unacceptable. It is a moral failure and a danger that must be confronted wherever it appears. But acknowledging that truth does not mean ignoring how the word antisemitism is sometimes used in ways that have nothing to do with protecting Jewish...