A Palestinian is seen from behind as they look outside through a large broken window. Some shards of fractured glass remain in the frame, but the rest of the opening reveals dark smoke billowing from a dense street of buildings in Gaza City. The sky is otherwise light but hazy.
The war between Israel and Hamas—now in its ninth week after a brief cease-fire—has made talk of peace processes and hopes for final-status agreements seem more remote than ever. But the brief pause in fighting and the successful hostage exchange brokered with the assistance of Qatar—along with Egypt and the United States—suggested that there is space for diplomacy even amid a brutal war.
Rather than seeking blueprints for a permanent peace deal, which seems far-fetched given the current Israeli and Palestinian political leadership, Foreign Policy asked a range of experts two narrower questions:
What will Gaza look like one year from now?
What single policy could any actor in this conflict pursue that would make it less likely that this war will end like so many others, with the same security threats remaining and key political grievances unresolved?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces U.S. President Joe Biden on a sunny day as photographers snap photos in the background. Biden’s mouth is open and he squints against the sun as he speaks to Netanyahu, holding a pair of sunglasses in the hand he’s using to hug the other man.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) greets U.S. President Joe Biden on his arrival in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Washington will not allow for the forced relocation of Palestinians or any redrawing of the current border of the Gaza Strip, US Vice President Kamala Harris said in a meeting Saturday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
“Under no circumstances will the United States permit the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank, the besiegement of Gaza, or the redrawing of the borders of Gaza,” Harris said, according to a statement from the White House.
Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza has killed nearly 15,000 people, including 10,000 women and children, in over 50 days, making it the deadliest war for the besieged Palestinian enclave till date.
Israel has rebuffed calls for a ceasefire as a four-day humanitarian truce comes to an end on November 28. It is unclear whether the truce will be extended.
TTCT – Sự gắn bó của Washington và Tel-Aviv không dừng lại ở mức hữu hảo thông thường, dù Mỹ và Israel thật ra không có hiệp ước cụ thể nào với nhau.
Ảnh: Foreign Policy
Năm 1950, Hoa Kỳ tham chiến tại Cao Ly. Họ dĩ nhiên rủ đồng minh góp quân. 16 nước đã gửi lực lượng tác chiến, 5 nước gửi lực lượng quân y.
Israel non trẻ lúc ấy cũng được mời và thủ tướng Ben Gurion, sau khi suy nghĩ đến bóp nát trái cam, thay vì gửi lính sang, ông gửi tặng… nước cam, vốn là đặc sản của vùng Palestine.
Cho đến nay, Israel chưa hề gửi đi đâu một người lính để giúp Mỹ. Tại Việt Nam, tại cuộc chiến Iraq 1 và 2, tại Afghanistan, có nơi Kazakhstan còn giúp 29 lính hay Iceland gửi đến 2 người, Israel vẫn không là không.
TTCT – Israel sẽ vừa phải tấn công Gaza vừa phải để một mắt dè chừng phía bắc nước này, nơi giáp giới Lebanon và có lực lượng Hezbollah mạnh gấp nhiều lần Hamas đang hoạt động.
Những người ủng hộ Hezbollah tề tựu nghe bài phát biểu của lãnh tụ Hassan Nasrallah trong lễ rước ngày Ashura ở ngoại ô nam Beirut, Lebanon, tháng 8-2021. Ảnh: EPA
Đây là cửa hàng tạp hóa thứ ba mà tôi ghé. Nó ở gần trung tâm thành phố Beirut và chỉ cách Trường đại học American, Beirut khoảng nửa cây số, là chỗ xập xình hàng quán ngày đêm sinh viên ăn chơi.
Nhưng đây là khu dân cư đi ngủ sớm, chứ không phải phố đi bộ chớp nháy đèn. Tôi vào bên trong lấy mấy chai bia lạnh. Khi ra quầy tính tiền, tôi nói với ông chủ tiệm là hai cửa hàng tôi mới ghé đều không có bia. Ông nhìn thẳng vào mắt tôi và nói thật đanh thép: “Ở cửa hàng này, tôi bảo đảm là ông sẽ luôn tìm được bia rượu!”.
That’s the verdict of co-founder of The Intercept Jeremy Scahill, who looked back into U.S. President Joe Biden’s political career and identified the key moments where he defended Israel’s alleged war crimes, from back in the 1980s to present day.
Biden has been in public office for 50 years, and during that time he has been one of Israel’s biggest defenders, even when the country has killed civilians.
Scahill argues that U.S. weapons and money have enabled Israel’s attacks on Gaza and that the more than 4,700 children killed “should be a permanent stain” on Biden’s legacy.
Twelve documentary makers withdraw after organisers condemn use of ‘From the river to the sea’ by onstage protesters
A dozen film-makers and artists have withdrawn their work from the world’s largest documentary festival after its organisers strongly condemned the use of the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” at an opening-night protest.
The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam said the use of the words ‘From the river to the sea’ went against its aim to provide a safe space for debate Photograph: Robert vant Hoenderdaal/Alamy
During a speech by the artistic director of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Orwa Nyrabia, at the start of the event last Thursday, three activists took to the stage holding a sign with the slogan, which some say is a call for a secular state in historic Palestine but which others note is used by radical Islamist groups to promote the eradication of Israel.
FILE – Demonstrators use the flashlights on their mobile phones as they protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, in Barcelona, Spain on Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESSUpdated 12:43 PM GMT+7, November 18, 2023Share
In the weeks since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, people across the globe have taken to the streets en masse — some in support of Israel and some in support of Palestinians.
In Tel Aviv, Israel, friends and family of some 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their return as they participate in a five-day “March for the Hostages” from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.
In Manila, capital of the Philippines, activists scuffle with police while marching toward the United States Embassy in solidarity with the Palestinians. In Washington, D.C., a river of people fills the National Mall in support of Israel — a sea of Israeli and U.S. flags.
TTCT – Có một chuyện tiếu lâm kể về 5 người Do Thái. Một là Moses: Luật là tất cả. Hai là Giê Su: Tình yêu là tất cả. Ba là Marx: Vốn là tất cả. Bốn là Freud: Tình dục là tất cả. Và năm là Einstein: Tất cả đều tương đối.
Ảnh: European Commission
Chuyện vui này cho thấy tầm quan trọng và ảnh hưởng của người Do Thái trong tâm tưởng Tây phương. Nó nhắm vào trước hết là cái “thông minh” của “dân tộc” này, để từ đó dẫn tới tiền của, tài khoa học hay kỹ thuật cũng như thương mãi. Tại sao người Do Thái lại được ưu tiên và mang tiếng như vậy?
Sau cuộc chiến với các nước Ả Rập năm 1948, Israel đối mặt với thách thức an ninh cực lớn khi bị bao quanh bởi phần lớn các nước thù địch. Tình thế này khiến Israel phải đưa ra giải pháp trước khi quá muộn. Và họ chọn Iran.
Trước khi thù địch, Israel và Iran từng hình thành một liên minh chiến lược. Ảnh minh họa: Sky News
Theo Viện Brookings (tổ chức tư vấn có trụ sở tại Mỹ), sự thù địch Israel – Iran rất kỳ lạ. Hai nước không có biên giới chung, không xảy ra chiến tranh cũng như không có bất kỳ sự cạnh tranh gay gắt nào về kinh tế hay vị thế trong khu vực. Lịch sử về mối quan hệ giữa người Ba Tư (Iran ngày nay) và người Do Thái (Israel ngày nay) cũng phần lớn là những điều tích cực. Thậm chí, trước năm 1979, Israel và Iran còn tạo thành một liên minh chiến lược về chính trị, kinh tế, an ninh và nhiều lĩnh vực khác. Vậy điều gì đã khiến Israel và Iran từ bạn hóa thù? Loạt bài kỳ này sẽ cố gắng giải đáp phần nào câu hỏi đó.
Caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks on the phone ahead of an interview.
NOVEMBER 9, 2023, 4:30 PM
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has a plan for peace in Gaza and Israel. If it has any hope of becoming reality, he’ll need Western backers. Thus far, he doesn’t have any.
It’s time for Western leaders to step up.
As the death toll in Gaza grows, now over 10,000, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has been trying to win allies for his three-step peace plan. First, Mikati proposes, would come a five-day pause in hostilities, during which Hamas would release some of its Israeli hostages and Israel would open its border crossings to more humanitarian aid. If the peace can hold for those 120 hours, negotiations would begin for the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for prisoners held by Israel. As that happens, work on an international summit for a permanent two-state solution would begin.
If it can get off the ground, Mikati’s proposal would channel the worst violence Israelis and Palestinians have seen in decades into the most serious peace effort since the collapse of the Oslo Accords.
Washington has influence and, with its allies, could shape an endgame that serves long-term U.S. interests.
By Emma Ashford, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a senior fellow with the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, and Matthew Kroenig, a columnist at Foreign Policy and vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
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Trade unions, youth movements, and Palestine solidarity groups have organized protests and blockades across Europe, opposing the role of their governments in Israel’s genocidal war on PalestiniansNovember 03, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch
Trade unionists of PAME carry out flash protest inside Athens International Airport (Photo: PAME)
As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues unabated for the fourth week straight, workers across Europe have stepped up their solidarity with Palestine and organized resistance to the supply of arms from various parts of the continent to Israel.
On Thursday, November 2, Greek trade unionists from the All Workers Militant Front (PAME) held a flash protest inside the Athens International Airport in solidarity with Palestine. The protest started in front of the offices of the Israeli airline El Al with protesters then marching inside the airport denouncing the genocidal war against Palestinians.
In their statement, PAME harshly criticized Israeli war crimes in Gaza. “No one can remain silent when the death toll from Israeli bombing in Gaza exceeds 8,000, including over 3000 children and over 1000 women,” PAME said.
“No one can remain silent when a child is killed in Gaza every 10 minutes. No one can remain silent when there are more than 15,000 wounded in Gaza without the necessary treatment because of the suffocating blockade by the murderer state of Israel.”
PAME has also demanded that the Greek government stop all economic, political, and military cooperation with Israel. The union called for an end to the facilitation of bases and other infrastructure by Greece to the US, NATO, and Israel.
PAME has also called for the immediate recognition of the Palestinian state along the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Meanwhile, on October 31, transport unions in Belgium including the Belgian Union of Transport Workers (BTB), BBTK, ACV-Transcom, and ACV Puls issued a joint statement announcing their resolve to refuse loading or unloading weapons in transit to Israel, which are destined for the genocidal war against the Palestinians.
In their statement, the trade unions said that while genocide is taking place in Palestine, workers at various airports in Belgium note the arrival of arms shipments to the conflict zone. Workers’ participation in loading or unloading these weapons “means supporting regimes that kill innocent people,” the statement said.
In the UK, on October 31, activists from Palestine Action blockaded the road to the headquarters of Elbit Systems in Bristol, notorious for manufacturing parts for Israeli drones and other pilotless aircraft.
DKU activist blocading Terma A/S in Soborg (Photo: DKU)
On October 30, in Demark, activists from various anti-war groups including the Communist Youth of Denmark (DKU), blocked all entrances to the Søborg plant of the Danish arms company, Terma, in protest against its sale of weapons and equipment to the Israeli Defense Forces.
According to reports, the Aarhus-based defense contractor supplies Israel with equipment for F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel uses to bomb Gaza. Terma has also been accused of sending arms for the war in Yemen.
During the blockade at Terma, DKU members hung up blood-stained children’s clothes to symbolize the consequences of Terma’s bloody business for civilians in Palestine.
Dagbladet Arbejderen has reported that the protestors have demanded that authorities publish all information about Terma’s activities and disseminate that information in a way that allows the people of Denmark to understand exactly what the company is doing.
They also demanded and end to the manufacturing of weapons parts used by the Israeli military and the termination of their agreements with F35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin, which supplies the Israeli genocidal apparatus.
As of November 3, the ongoing genocidal war carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 7, has claimed the lives of more than 9,000 people, wounded more than 30,000 people, and displaced over 1.4 million.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces U.S. President Joe Biden on a sunny day as photographers snap photos in the background. Biden’s mouth is open and he squints against the sun as he speaks to Netanyahu, holding a pair of sunglasses in the hand he’s using to hug the other man.
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