The Briefing Netanyahu and Trump plan to meet in Washington. Plus: ‘Zootopia 2’ and animated film’s significance
Feb 10, 2026
Leila Milana Allen, Monocle’s Middle East reporter, outlines Netanyahu’s push to sway Trump on Iran and regional shifts. Fernando Augusto Pacheco, Monocle culture correspondent, explores why Zootopia 2 became a global animation phenomenon. Konstantin Gürcic, industrial designer, discusses the Whiteout show and design responses to the future of winter sports.
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Push For Broader, Verifiable Limits
- When negotiating with Iran, pressure should target more than nuclear limits; include missile and militia constraints.
- Focus talks on durable limits and verification to prevent temporary pauses that allow rebuilding.
Settlement Moves Threaten Two-State Future
- Israel's government is loosening legal checks to expand settlements, accelerating de facto annexation and eroding the viability of a two-state solution.
- Leila Milana-Allen describes daily life in the West Bank as increasingly police-state-like with rising checkpoints and bulldozed Palestinian infrastructure.
West Bank Changes Proceed With Little Pushback
- The Trump administration has shown strong focus on Gaza but little attention to West Bank changes, meaning little external pushback on settlement policy.
- This relative inattention lets legislative changes and settler expansion proceed with few international checks.