Israel is deepening Lebanese social rifts by bombing areas that have been considered historically “safe” from Israeli attacks, dissuading the residents of those areas from sheltering displaced people from the south.
The year since October 7 has shown us that Israel can neither be accommodated nor reformed. It must be dismantled, and Zionism must be brought to an end. Only this will finally alleviate the Palestinians’ terrible ordeal over the past 76 years.
Abdaljawad Omar speaks to Mondoweiss about how the recent escalation of fighting between Israel and the Lebanese resistance is connected to the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7.
The ICJ’s ruling that international law protects the rights of Palestinians, and they need not negotiate with their oppressors for those rights, dealt a definitive blow to decades of Western efforts to situate Israel outside the reach of the law.
The U.S. must engage politically with Hamas in order to end the horror in Gaza and pave the way toward progress. The alternative is further escalation and the growing possibility of a wider regional war.
The Biden administration’s “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia” cannot be taken seriously while the U.S. gives Israel a blank check in Gaza. The U.S. cannot claim to combat Islamophobia at home while attacking Muslim communities abroad.