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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ comes into confounding focus
In the Spotlight What began as a plan to redevelop the Gaza Strip is quickly emerging as a new lever of global power for a president intent on upending the standing world order
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The Voice of Hind Rajab: ‘innovative’ drama-doc hybrid
The Week Recommends ‘Wrenching’ film about the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza
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How Iran protest death tolls have been politicised
In the Spotlight Regime blames killing of ‘several thousand’ people on foreign actors and uses videos of bodies as ‘psychological warfare’ to scare protesters
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The Board of Peace: Donald Trump’s ‘alternative to the UN’
The Explainer Body set up to oversee reconstruction of Gaza could have broader mandate to mediate other conflicts and create a ‘US-dominated alternative to the UN’
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Israel’s E1 zone in the West Bank: the death of the two-state solution?
The Explainer Controversial new settlement in occupied territories makes future Palestinian state unviable, critics claim
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What will happen in 2026? Predictions and events
In Depth The new year could bring peace in Ukraine or war in Venezuela, as Donald Trump prepares to host a highly politicised World Cup and Nasa returns to the Moon
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What have Trump’s Mar-a-Lago summits achieved?
Today’s big question Zelenskyy and Netanyahu meet the president in his Palm Beach ‘Winter White House’
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What is the global intifada?
The Explainer Police have arrested two people over controversial ‘globalise the intifada’ chants
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Who is fuelling the flames of antisemitism in Australia?
Today’s Big Question Deadly Bondi Beach attack the result of ‘permissive environment’ where warning signs were ‘too often left unchecked’
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The issue dividing Israel: ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers
In the Spotlight A new bill has solidified the community’s ‘draft evasion’ stance, with this issue becoming the country’s ‘greatest internal security threat’
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UN Security Council backs Trump’s Gaza peace plan
Speed Read The United Nations voted 13-0 to endorse President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza
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Marwan Barghouti: the Palestinian hostage seen as Nelson Mandela
In the Spotlight Israel has refused to free Barghouti, though Trump is considering lobbying for his release as a further means to end the war
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Gaza ceasefire teeters as Netanyahu orders strikes
Speed Read Israel accused Hamas of firing on Israeli troops
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Is the ceasefire in Gaza really working?
Today's Big Question Neither Israel and Hamas has an interest in a full return to hostilities but ‘brutally simple arithmetic’ in region may scupper peace plan long-term
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