Iran Braces for More War, No Matter the Outcome of the U.S. and Israeli Elections

31 October 2026 at 12:05

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is jockeying to stay in power, and President Trump is in a tough midterm fight, yet Iran’s leaders do not expect a major shift in Israeli or U.S. policy.

A campaign billboard last week in Tel Aviv showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Trump.

As Trump fans the flames of a world on fire, can diplomacy take back control?

The Guardian

By: Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

31 October 2026 at 09:00

Amid the chaos, havoc and war caused by a capricious and amoral US president, countries are waking up to the dangers of being excluded and abused by America

Never has there been a time when the world has been more interconnected than now. What happens in the secretive inner councils in Tehran, the mountains of south-west Yemen, the steppe of the Donbas, the still bloody wasteland that is Gaza and even the elegant boulevards of Paris and Milan have a common thread.

One cannot understand one set of conflicts without weaving them into another, and it is this very interdependence that is making each problem so contagious, layered and difficult to resolve, leaving the world to live as if trapped inside a pressure cooker on the brink of an explosion.

‘You need the power of all your votes’: Bedouin women secure success for Arab parties in Israeli election

The Guardian

By: Emma Graham-Harrison in Azzarnug

31 October 2026 at 12:25

With 180,000 eligible voters, Bedouin turnout was key in Palestinian-led parties winning unprecedented 19 seats

Last year, Umm Khaled Fatoun returned from volunteering in a Jewish-Arab support centre for victims of war to find bulldozers tearing into her son’s house in the Bedouin village of Azzarnug.

The demolition crew, who arrived under police escort, did not even allow them to remove furniture or solar panels before reducing the home and its contents to a pile of rubble.

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