Israel

Gilbert Achcar: Is the drumbeat of war on the Israel/Lebanon front a prelude to all-out war?
Gilbert Achcar — Recent weeks have witnessed a sharp escalation of the exchange of fire between the Lebanese resistance and Israeli forces in South Lebanon/North of the Zionist state.

Ilan Pappé: The collapse of Zionism
Ilan Pappé — We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.

The United States and Israel: What’s behind the ongoing conflict between Biden and Netanyahu?
Gilbert Achcar — With the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip completed and the question of its political fate coming to the fore, the Zionist consensus represented by Netanyahu’s war cabinet has ended.

Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and US power in the Middle East
Adam Hanieh provides an alternative approach to understanding Palestine – one that is framed by the wider region and the Middle East’s central place in our fossil fuel-centred world.

Gilbert Achcar: Truce in Gaza and the dilemmas faced by Netanyahu and Hamas
Gilbert Achcar — News related to the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip have been overshadowed by the truce project that Biden attributed to “Israel” without specifying which Israeli governing body had approved it.

The anti-war left makes inroads in Israel: An interview with Standing Together’s Uri Weltmann
Uri Weltmann discusses the growing peace movement inside Israel and how activists are confronting far-right extremists seeking to disrupt humanitarian aid going to the Gaza Strip.

We live in a world of growing imperialist rivalries
Ilya Matveev — Vast shifts in the world economy are driving a new imperialist rivalry, for which a series of regional wars are creating dangerous flash points.

Ukrainians and Palestinians are fighting occupation
Terrell Starr speaks with Rita Adel and Vladyslav Starodubtsev about why they feel it is important for Ukrainians to understand colonialism in other parts of the world.