Those living today are destined to experience a rare Triffin’s Dilemma moment, when one dominant but fading empire transitions uneasily to a more robust one. The end of the Portuguese and Spanish empires can be understood as examples of such turning points, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada...
Treating a state as a god is a very frightening endeavor. It confers upon mortals a level of veneration that we do not deserve and will always abuse. Liebowitz called it “the essence of fascism.” It is especially frightening when that state operates along explicitly tribal lines.- Peter...
I believe the status quo in Israel cannot persist because the “peace process” has failed to deliver any kind of resolution. Most people date the beginning of the Israel-Palestine conflict to the Arab-Israeli War in 1948. But the conflict had been brewing for much longer.- Ilan Pappé
On March 14,...
Israel's recent strikes on Qatar and Yemen have once again demonstrated both the lawlessness of the Jewish state’s leadership and the deep divisions within the Arab world. The latter, in many ways, is responsible for the former.
With regard to Israel, everything is crystal clear. Israelis have long since ceased...
Deeply inspired, with a heart full of empathy and rage at almost two years of a colonial Holocaust, I returned to Palestine. My initial visit motivated me to pursue a deeper, more comprehensive connection with the historic Palestinian people who have been resisting 76 years of apartheid and genocide.
I...
Without U.S. support Israel’s leaders could have been compelled to seek a just resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict instead of pursuing a Greater Israel
In his 1983 book The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & the Palestinians, Noam Chomsky argued against the grain that the Israelis had compromised their...
Contrary to Israel’s carefully constructed façade, the record shows that Tel Aviv has long supported Hamas for purposes of destabilization and peace-wrecking, only one of the many strategic expedients deployed by Israel to achieve a long-term goal: denying Palestinian statehood and expanding its own borders.
It has been now more...
On Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the cabinet and then with a pre-recorded video addressed the Israeli public, expressing his support for the deal...
As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week, world leaders have adopted a Pact for the Future to build towards a multilateral world. But the meeting is happening as regional conflicts could flare up and ignite across many parts of the globe...
Since October 7th, global attention has largely shifted away from Ukraine toward the Middle East amid Israel’s ongoing slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
At the same time, the world has seen unprecedented mass protests in support of the Palestinians and calls for...
