Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
Megan O’Toole
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Severe thunderstorms and ‘extreme’ insect swarms are threatening to disrupt Trump’s UFC birthday bash tomorrow.
‘It is well past time to arrange a regional framework and defence pact that would become a fact on the ground, which neither Israel nor the latest occupant of the White House could ignore.’
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Israel is quietly cementing a permanent, heavily fortified military presence in Gaza, with Al Jazeera identifying 40 distinct Israeli military outposts entrenched within the enclave - eight of which were built from scratch after the October 2025 ‘ceasefire’ took effect.
‘What the past 20 years of lies and misdirections have sought to hide is a simple fact: it is not Tehran that is led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington.’
‘The UAE’s future security will not be secured by louder narratives of exceptionalism, nor by the fantasy that Little Sparta can stand apart from the Gulf’s collective fate. It will be secured, if at all, by a sober recognition that all Gulf states live under the same shadow.’
Just as Netanyahu and his allies target the compliant PA, “they are now going after the United Arab List, despite all of the party’s ideological concessions, and its willingness to join coalitions and legitimise the occupation. For Netanyahu, none of this is enough.”
Narratives on Iran ‘shift with such speed and theatrical flair that they hardly resemble news reports any more … Perhaps the most revealing contradiction in this entire spectacle has been the sudden rehabilitation in western media of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.’
‘Trump may try to arm-twist Riyadh into signing the Abraham Accords as the price for a ceasefire with Iran, but what he will get is deafening silence.’
‘Trump’s pitch on the Abraham Accords rests on a mistaken impression that the countries that he ensnared into a war that led to the bombings of their cities and critical infrastructure owe him a favour to conclude the war.’
A wave of missiles has been launched from Iran towards Israel, with the Iranian military warning of more ‘crushing blows’ if Israel does not stop its assault on Lebanon.
