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Spy Who Came In From the Cold — and Ran for Parliament

Jonathan Pollard served 30 years in an American federal prison for selling the United States' most classified secrets to Israel. Israel granted him citizenship, lobbied for his release and sent Netanyahu when he landed. He announced he is running for the Knesset. Nobody in Washington said a word.

By Sunny Peter

/ 8 May 2026

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Operation Sindoor: Fifty-Nine Lawmakers. Zero Answers.

Trump claimed credit for the ceasefire 80 times. Modi never contradicted him once. India sent seven multi-party parliamentary delegations — 59 members, 32 countries and the EU headquarters — to make one argument: Pakistan is a state sponsor of terrorism. Not one government said what India asked.

By Sunny Peter

/ 7 May 2026

Operation Sindoor: Fifty-Nine Lawmakers. Zero Answers.

God Does Not Listen

Pope Leo called for peace. Trump announced a deal. Strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure continued through the night. There is a moment in every prolonged conflict when the moral vocabulary of the powerful becomes entirely decorative — when prayers are offered and bombs are dropped together.

By Sunny Peter

/ 6 May 2026

European Waters, Israeli Rules

An Israeli naval vessel intercepted a European-flagged aid ship in international waters without legal basis. It was conducted anyway — because Israel has learned that the cost of violating international law in international waters is, for now, the price of a diplomatic protest.

By Sunny Peter

/ 5 May 2026

Terminated: War That Ended Without Ending

Trump invoked the War Powers Act to declare the Iran conflict terminated. The strikes have stopped — for now. The naval blockade continues. The sanctions remain. The nuclear question is unresolved. The war has been declared over. The conditions that produced it have not changed.

By Sunny Peter

/ 4 May 2026

Terminated: War That Ended Without Ending

Annexation That Hides in Plain Sight

Israel is not annexing the West Bank in a ceremony. It is annexing it in permits, bypass roads, settlement expansion and legal reclassification. The process is deliberate, incremental and designed to be complete before anyone formally objects. The annexation hides in plain sight.

By Sunny Peter

/ 1 May 2026

Negotiation and the Threat

The United States opened talks with Cuba by first threatening economic strangulation. Washington framed it as leverage. Havana called it coercion. The distinction matters: negotiations conducted under explicit threat produce agreements that last only as long as the threat does.

By Sunny Peter

/ 30 Apr 2026

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