Analysis: pressure is building for a rate cut as inflation cools and growth weakens, but a stronger shekel, war with Iran, energy risks, fiscal expansion and political uncertainty leave policymakers with no clean path

Opinion: Despite US and Israeli war plans, Iran emerges in a stronger position nearly three months after launch; Regime-change strategy collapsed amid internal US disputes, Trump vetoes, leaving Israel in prolonged multi-front conflict and strategic uncertainty

Opinion: Arab leaders oppose emerging US-Iran understandings and want the fall of Iran’s clerical regime, but fear regional economic collapse, oil and trade disruptions through Hormuz and rising instability forces them to back Trump’s approach

Opinion: Madrid praised the Gaza flotilla activists as victims of Israeli cruelty, then stayed silent when Spanish police beat them at home, exposing Europe’s performative outrage against Israel