<![CDATA[Wally Rashid]]>https://www.wallyrashid.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmLq!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66256cfc-4557-4ac8-9f63-5061aae1880f_300x300.pngWally Rashidhttps://www.wallyrashid.comSubstackTue, 20 Oct 2026 06:40:24 GMT<![CDATA[Pope Leo Says AI Can’t Feel Pain, Anthropic BANS Hurting Claude]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/anthropic-claude-cruelty-ban-pope-leohttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/anthropic-claude-cruelty-ban-pope-leoSat, 10 Oct 2026 02:39:36 GMTPope Leo XIV posted that only the human soul can recognize lived experience, as Anthropic banned “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude and said it will ban accounts, not just end chats. I break down Dario Amodei’s interview on Claude’s consciousness (Opus 4.6 gives itself a 15 to 20% chance), the Guardian’s model welfare reporting, Sam Altman calling it “a real safety issue,” and the New York Times report on Anthropic’s Vatican lobbying. Plus Axios on Anthropic and OpenAI executives privately planning for “the day after” a catastrophic AI event.

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]]><![CDATA[Jon Ossoff's Israel Answer BACKFIRES With Both Sides]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/ossoff-genocide-question-debatehttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/ossoff-genocide-question-debateSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:08:20 GMTJon Ossoff faced a direct question about genocide in Gaza during his Georgia Senate debate with Mike Collins. I break down his response, his Israel voting record and arms-sales positions, plus the pro-Israel backlash and campaign funding behind the race.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump Doesn’t Win The Nobel Peace Prize, Rubio Sanctions The ICC Hours Later]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/rubio-icc-sanctions-navi-pillayhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/rubio-icc-sanctions-navi-pillayFri, 09 Oct 2026 19:40:38 GMTSecretary of State Marco Rubio announced US sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) just hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize and Trump didn’t. Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon called the Nobel decision disgraceful, while AIPAC’s own lobbying disclosure shows it lobbied the State Department on the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (H.R. 23).

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]]><![CDATA[Obama Backs El-Sayed As Miriam Adelson FUNDS $27 MILLION Attack On Him]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/obobama-el-sayed-michigan-moneyhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/obobama-el-sayed-michigan-moneyTue, 06 Oct 2026 16:38:28 GMT

Here’s the full funding going into the Michigan Senate race: https://votelog.org/investigations/michigan-senate-general-money As FEC filings come in, the data updates automatically every hour! If you want to support my work, consider donating at https://votelog.org/donate

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]]><![CDATA[The Cornell 7 Case: Explained For Dummies]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/cornell-7-case-explainedhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/cornell-7-case-explainedFri, 02 Oct 2026 21:58:35 GMTThe Cornell 7 case explained: seven Chi Phi fraternity members at Cornell University, a student known as Jane Doe, a Snapchat group chat, and nearly two years without criminal charges. This unbiased breakdown covers the lawsuit, the messages sent before and after October 19, 2024, the police interview the Tompkins County DA says he never saw, and New York's consent law. On October 1, 2026, Governor Kathy Hochul appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor; the accused deny the allegations and no one has been charged.

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]]><![CDATA[Pro-Israel Groups Lose It Over Mamdani’s New “Plan To Combat Antisemitism” Not Including Israel]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/mamdani-antisemitism-planhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/mamdani-antisemitism-planWed, 30 Sep 2026 22:36:10 GMTZohran Mamdani’s antisemitism plan has drawn fire from Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL and some pro-Palestine activists. I examine what the plan actually funds, revisit his campaign promises and explain the proposal I sent his office to track West Bank settlement property sales in New York City.

]]><![CDATA[Israeli Officials LOSE IT Over Zohran Mamdani CALLING OUT Netanyahu]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/netanyahu-mamdani-un-speechhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/netanyahu-mamdani-un-speechTue, 22 Sep 2026 15:42:13 GMTBenjamin Netanyahu is coming to the United Nations on Thursday, and he's announced his target in advance: the mayor of the city hosting him.

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]]><![CDATA[Thomas Massie Moves to IMPEACH Pete Hegseth Over Iran War]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/thomas-massie-impeach-hegsethhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/thomas-massie-impeach-hegsethWed, 16 Sep 2026 16:24:57 GMTRepublican Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war, alleging unauthorized military action and failures to protect civilians. This video examines the impeachment effort, Massie’s decision to withhold his plans from GOP leadership, and the dispute over congressional war powers and accountability for U.S. military operations.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump's 40,000-Bomb Plan for Israel Sparks BACKLASH]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/israel-40000-bombs-taxpayerhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/israel-40000-bombs-taxpayerWed, 16 Sep 2026 16:06:56 GMTThe largest single transfer of 2,000-pound bombs in recent memory is headed to Israel, and you are paying for it. In this video, I break down the Washington Post's reporting, since confirmed by Reuters and AFP, on a $2.8 billion package containing 20,000 MK-84s, 20,000 BLU-117 bunker-buster variants, and 20,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads. The word everyone is using is "sale," which is doing an enormous amount of work, because the money comes through Foreign Military Financing: Washington hands Israel the funds, Israel hands them back to American arms manufacturers, and the bill lands on the American taxpayer, most likely as a grant nobody repays.

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]]><![CDATA[Macklemore DROPPED From Ed Sheeran's Tour Over "Free Palestine"]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/macklemore-ed-sheeran-free-palestinehttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/macklemore-ed-sheeran-free-palestineMon, 14 Sep 2026 16:52:19 GMTMacklemore told a stadium crowd that a big part of why he joined this tour was so he could stand on stages across America and say two words: free Palestine. Ten days later he was off the tour. In this video, I break down Rolling Stone's reporting that seven stadiums told promoter Messina Touring Group they would not allow a concert to take place with him on the lineup, which would have killed the whole tour, so after what the promoter calls discussions with stakeholders, he was cut from eight remaining shows.

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]]><![CDATA[$5,000 If You Vote Republican. Nobody Can Say Where It Comes From]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/trump-5000-dividend-promisehttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/trump-5000-dividend-promiseSun, 13 Sep 2026 20:10:49 GMTOn opening night of the first Republican midterm convention, Trump promised every adult citizen in America a $5,000 check, on one condition: Republicans have to win the House and the Senate. He named it the Trump dividend and added that you have to spend it inside the country.

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]]><![CDATA[He Attacked El-Sayed Over 9/11. He Voted Against the Responders Nine Times.]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/rogers-el-sayed-911-voteshttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/rogers-el-sayed-911-votesSun, 13 Sep 2026 19:49:27 GMTike Rogers spent the run-up to the 25th anniversary of September 11 using the attacks as a weapon against his opponent, telling the Republican convention that Abdul El-Sayed wants to represent Palestine while he wants to represent Michigan, and claiming the day after the primary that El-Sayed believes America deserved 9/11. In this video, I walk through what happened when El-Sayed answered. He pointed out that Rogers voted twice to deny health care to 9/11 first responders and justified it to a responder who had part of his foot amputated by calling it a New York problem, a post that drew more than two million views. Rogers fired back that El-Sayed had some nerve and demanded he disavow a Twitch streamer. Then the Detroit Metro Times published a review of congressional records finding that Rogers didn't oppose responder health care twice, he did it nine times between 2003 and 2010: two votes against the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, a vote to block it in subcommittee, a vote against letting it reach the floor, support for a maneuver colleagues warned would kill it outright, and backing for an amendment that would have terminated the health program if it added to the national debt.

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]]><![CDATA[Pro-Israel Crowd MELTDOWN Over Congressman Khanna’s “Team America” Statement]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/ro-khanna-netanyahu-iran-warhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/ro-khanna-netanyahu-iran-warSat, 12 Sep 2026 19:10:46 GMTRo Khanna calling out Netanyahu’s actions that pushed America into war with Iran garnered intense backlash from the pro-Israel crowd. It started with his video celebrating progressives beating AIPAC's millions, from Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan to Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota to Randy Villegas in California, all running on no aid to Israel, no foreign wars, taxing billionaires, and Medicare for All. When a critic called him an obsessive "toxic bigot," Khanna answered by going further: Netanyahu screwed Americans with higher gas prices, higher food prices, and another endless war in Iran, a post now past a million views.

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]]><![CDATA[MBS Begs Trump For Help Against Houthis TWICE, Trump Says No]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/houthis-bab-al-mandab-saudi-oilhttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/houthis-bab-al-mandab-saudi-oilSat, 12 Sep 2026 18:45:41 GMTFor the first time, both of the world's most important oil chokepoints are being squeezed by the Iranian axis at the same time, and when Saudi Arabia asked America for help, the answer was no. Twice. In this video, I walk through the week that got us here: drones launched from Iraq, where Iranian-backed militias operate, hitting the East-West pipeline in the Riyadh and Medina regions Thursday morning, forcing Riyadh to shut down the Hormuz bypass that carries roughly five million barrels a day, with a smoke plume visible from space and a foreign ministry statement so restrained it defers to Baghdad's prime minister rather than retaliate.

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]]><![CDATA[Pakistan on Defending Saudi Arabia: "Not Even in Discussion"]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/pakistan-mecca-pact-saudi-houthishttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/pakistan-mecca-pact-saudi-houthisSat, 12 Sep 2026 18:15:01 GMTThe backup plan just answered, and the answer was no. After Trump turned down MBS twice, Riyadh's fallback was supposed to be the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, the pact Saudi Arabia signed with Pakistan in September 2025 and expanded last month to include Turkey, with NATO-style language declaring an attack on one an attack on all. This week the Houthis attacked Saudi cities, energy infrastructure, and shipping, and when Pakistan's foreign ministry was asked how Islamabad would honor its obligations, spokesperson Sajjad Haider Khan said a military response is not even under discussion, only that Pakistan will act "when time comes.”

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]]><![CDATA[Palestinian Leadership Should Be In Saudi Arabia This Week. Publicly.]]>https://www.wallyrashid.com/p/palestinian-leadership-riyadh-saudihttps://www.wallyrashid.com/p/palestinian-leadership-riyadh-saudiSat, 12 Sep 2026 14:32:51 GMT
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Riyadh on April 29, 2024. (X/@Bandaralgaloud)

Right now, as I’m writing this, MBS is calling Donald Trump twice in one day asking for American airstrikes on the Houthis and getting told no. The Houthis took the port of Mocha on Thursday and every island in the Bab al-Mandab strait on Friday. Drones launched out of Iraq shut down the pipeline that carries Saudi oil to the Red Sea. And Netanyahu, according to a Jerusalem Post article, citing US sources, is offering to help the Saudis fight the Houthis.

Everybody is negotiating over Saudi Arabia this week. The Iranians. The Americans. The Israelis. Everybody except the people whose statehood is supposedly the price of the whole deal.

Where is the Palestinian leadership? Ramallah. Waiting. Same as always.

I’m going to explain why that’s a disaster, and I’m going to do it as somebody who is not a fan of the PA. I’m a Palestinian American with family in the West Bank village of Burin. The Yitzhar settlement that’s been terrorizing my family got its security head sanctioned because a team of lawyers and I pushed the State Department until it happened. Nobody in Ramallah did that for us. So don’t read this as me defending the PA. Read it as me telling them to do their damn job for once.

Riyadh needs one thing it can’t manufacture

Here’s the thing people miss about Saudi normalization. MBS wanted to sign in 2023. Three weeks before October 7 he told Fox News “every day we get closer” and called it the biggest deal since the end of the Cold War. What stopped him wasn’t principle. It was Gaza, and it was his own people. Only 16 percent of Saudis had a positive view of the Abraham Accords in 2021. By early 2023, that number was 20%. The custodian of the two holy mosques cannot sign a bare deal with Israel while Israel is doing what it’s doing. So in September 2024 MBS went out of his way to “eliminate any ambiguity” and stated there is no normalization without a Palestinian state.

This means Riyadh needs Palestinians to say the deal is acceptable. That cover is the single card the Palestinian leadership holds with Saudi Arabia. Palestine has little to no geopolitical leverage, but here is a card Riyadh has already come asking for once.

In September 2023, Hussein al-Sheikh, intelligence chief Majed Faraj and Abbas’s adviser Majdi Khaldi flew to Riyadh and met the Saudi foreign minister, the national security adviser, and Brett McGurk from the White House. Axios reported the reason Riyadh wanted them there because vehement PA objection would make it much harder for Saudi Arabia to get public support at home and across the Arab world. Saudi officials told them Riyadh “will not abandon” the Palestinian cause.

So what did the PA ask for? Some Area C land moved to Area B. A Saudi consulate in Jerusalem. Resumed funding. Talks on a timetable. That’s it. Not a state. And a source close to the leadership told Middle East Eye the honest truth- that Palestinian leadership believed normalization is happening with or without them, so they might as well benefit from it, politically and financially.

That’s the Palestinian leadership. Handed the one piece of leverage that actually moves Riyadh, and they used it to ask for a consulate and a check. Quietly. Through a leaked list. They missed out on the public pressure this could have created, like they do time and time again.

Why this time is worse

In 2023 Saudi Arabia was strong. High oil prices, a détente with Iran, a Biden administration desperate for a deal. Riyadh could afford to wait.

Look at Riyadh now. The Houthis hold the entire Yemeni coast opposite the strait Saudi oil has to pass through since Iran closed Hormuz. The East-West pipeline is shut. MBS asked Trump twice on Thursday for strikes and Trump refused. Pakistan, which signed a defense pact with Riyadh last month, says no military response is even being discussed.

And in the middle of all that, Trump keeps pressuring Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords. On July 22 the US signed a nuclear cooperation deal with Saudi Arabia. Within 24 hours, after what Israeli Channel 12 described as a concerted effort in Israel to get it done, Trump posted that the deal is “totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords.” Netanyahu’s office credited the Iran war for creating the climate. That deal is sitting in Congress right now and is set to expire within 90 days.

Make no mistake about what’s happening. Israel doesn’t want a collapsed Saudi Arabia. Israel wants a Saudi Arabia weak enough to need protection and intact enough to join the Abraham Accords. That is what is happening right now. The squeeze is coming from three directions at once: Iran through the Houthis and the Iraqi militias, Washington through the nuclear deal, and Israel through the offer of help.

Every drone on Jizan and every missile on Ras Tanura pushes Riyadh one step closer to signing whatever Washington puts in front of it out of desperation. Right now Palestine’s leverage is being spent in this war, and PA leadership is silent in advancing its interests.

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What “publicly” actually means

This is what Palestine leadership should do this week, not after the pathway has already been drafted by Americans and Israelis.

Get on a plane. The 2023 delegation left through Allenby and flew from Amman. Do it again. But this time, do it in front of cameras.

Publish the list drafted to Riyadh. Not a leaked list, a published one. An immediate freeze on E1. A settlement freeze across Area C. Israeli acceptance, in writing, that the endpoint is a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines. A US commitment to a UN membership vote. Specifically dated milestones. And Saudi money to the Palestinian Authority tied to each milestone. This in turn, pushes the PA to act further in its own interests to recieve further funding.

However, this must be heavily publicized. Hold a press conference in Riyadh, not Ramallah. Make MBS’s own words the standard. He said no normalization without a state. This must be said back to him in Saudi Arabia’s capital, and known globally.

Egypt and Jordan should be pressured to attend as well. Cairo is losing Suez money to the Houthis and will lose the Sinai in Netanyahu’s Greater Israel map. Amman has the most to lose of anyone- its entire state is erased in the map of “Greater Israel”. Both have every reason to stand with a public statement that any Saudi deal gets measured against the Arab Peace Initiative and the New York Declaration that Saudi Arabia co-authored with France and that the UN passed 142 to 10 in 2025.

It’s very important this is public, because a private list can be discounted behind the scenes. A published one becomes the thing every Saudi and every Arab watches MBS either meet or walk away from. It gives Palestine leverage, and right now it has very little. One of the few forced that have ever constrained MBS on this is his own public.

“But the two-state solution is dead”

I’ve said this myself, and the reality on the ground unfortunately very much so supports this. Netanyahu approve 3,000 units in E1 the same week he says he’s “very attached” to Greater Israel. Yet, this is the only international pathway Palestinians have at their disposal, and it must be pushed regardless.

That’s exactly why the price has to be public and specific. A vague “pathway to a Palestinian state” written by Kushner is a fiction that lets everyone sign. A published list of irreversible steps forces Israel to say no out loud, and this gives the PA more political credibility in response in wanting to finding a negotiated settlement. Let Netanyahu be the one who kills the two-state solution on camera, with Saudi Arabia’s signature sitting on the table. Then the world can finally have the conversation about one state with equal rights, and Riyadh can’t pretend it didn’t hear it.

What we must not accept is the PA doing 2023 all over again with a quiet list. A quiet no. A signature. And then a press release from the PA “rejecting” a deal they helped manufacture.

Is this legitimizing normalization?

The reality on the ground is that the signature is coming. MBS was three weeks from it in 2023 with less than a state on offer. The PA must recognize this and make the most they can out of an unfavorable situation, otherwise it will be Kushner and the likes drafting it regardless.

Saudi Arabia invited the PA to Riyadh in 2023 for exactly this reason, not because of Sympathy, but for MBS to save legitimacy among his own public.

“The PA has no legitimacy.” Agreed. Which is why it has to be public. If the whole Arab world watches them come forward with these demands, the failure in its implementation will be put on MBS, and this in turn increases the PA’s diplomatic leverage.

If Israel refuses to let PA leadership travel to Riyadh, the PA must publicize this as well, and push Arab states to condemn the move publicly. Everything the PA attempts to do for Palestine’s interests must be well publicized, because global support for the Palestine cause is one of the few points of leverage it has.

Wally Rashid is a Palestinian American journalist with family in Burin, Nablus Governorate, and the founder of votelog.org, which tracks every US congressional vote on Israel and Palestine.

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