War Without End: How Israel Now Sees Its Future

In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at what the US midterms mean for America’s ties with Israel. We cover Trump blaming the defeat on a “great dislike” for Israel, AIPAC’s shrinking influence, and the push to turn US aid into a lasting military partnership. We also cover the floods in Gaza, Netanyahu’s stalled Gaza plan, and settlers taking over Palestinian homes in Jericho

Israel’s election has left neither camp with a majority, and unseating Benjamin Netanyahu is impossible without the 19 seats held by Palestinian parties, yet no Zionist party will govern with them. This week we ask what that deadlock reveals about a state that offers Palestinian citizens the vote but not equality, from Gadi Eisenkot’s demand that Arab parties recognise Israel as a Jewish state to liberal Zionists rebranding inequality as “preferential democracy”. We also look at a new report tracing an Islamophobic influence campaign in Europe to Israel, and at the anti-Muslim smears dominating the US election campaign.

In this episode, we discuss Israel’s election results and ask why Netanyahu’s opponents would rather exclude Arab parties than work with them to remove him. We examine Palestinian voter turnout, Israel’s growing isolation and World Jewish Congress president and former Netanyahu confidant Ron Lauder’s claim that Israel wants dominance, not peace. We also look at lessons from Brazil and Serbia, Iran’s place in regional security, and the controversy over Lana Nusseibeh’s UN bid and the UAE’s alleged role in Sudan’s atrocities.

In this episode, we unpack Israel’s new national security doctrine of permanent war, the settler attack on a Washington Post journalist and EU diplomats, and eight Israeli parties’ unanimous rejection of a Palestinian state. Plus Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu, Israel’s grip on the Latin American right and the backlash against Obama’s Belfast remarks.

In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine why Palestinian elections have been postponed again, plans for AI surveillance in Gaza’s classrooms and CNN’s findings linking a majority of hostage deaths in captivity to Israeli military actions. We also discuss the suppression of US diplomatic reports critical of Israel, the backlash against Navi Pillay, US sanctions on the ICC and a leading rabbi’s challenge to Zionism, alongside divisions within the Palestine solidarity movement and the Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia.

On the third anniversary of 7 October, we look back on three years of the Gaza genocide. We ask what the genocide has revealed about Israel, about the Western powers that have backed it, and about the international system that has failed to stop it. We also ask what these three years mean for Palestinians and their struggle against apartheid.Mentioned in this episode:The CIA red-team report warning that Israel is heading towards civil war — Drop Site News: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cia-report-israel-civil-war-collapseMuhammad Shehada’s thread debunking Israel’s list of 170 Gaza journalists it claims were Hamas operatives: https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/2106703816792133658The foiled plot by a Bar-Ilan University lecturer to carry out simultaneous attacks on Palestinian towns — The Jerusalem Post: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-910629

This week’s MEMO review examines claims about Netanyahu’s advance knowledge of 7 October, his provocative UN speech and Israel’s sweeping West Bank closure. We discuss calls to free Marwan Barghouti, moves to bar Arab-led parties from Israeli elections, Trump’s rejection of Iran’s proposal and allegations of election interference involving Israeli firms.

 In this week’s Palestine This Week, Nasim Ahmed and Muhammad Shehada discuss allegations that Israel is destroying evidence of war crimes in Gaza, the growing use of AI to select targets and the disturbing revelations in the documentary NAZA. They also examine genocidal rhetoric and Israeli exceptionalism, plans for Gaza’s reconstruction, state-backed settler violence in the occupied West Bank, the controversy surrounding Ed Sheeran and the political weaponisation of Iran’s protest death toll. 

In this episode we speak to Muhammed Shehada about his clash with the Board of Peace and his concern that it is burying evidence of genocide in Gaza. We unpack revelations in the Haaretz that Benjamin Netanyahu was warned in advance of the 7 October attack. Marking twenty-five years since 9/11, we look at how the War on Terror emboldened Israel, and at the rise in Islamophobia since — fuelled by Israel-linked groups working in alliance with the far right. We close on Britain’s sanctions against Israeli settlement products, the ferocity of the backlash, and how easily measures like this can be circumvented.Chapters:00:00:00 Introduction & Overview00:01:29 The Board of Peace and the burying of genocide evidence00:10:43 The warning Netanyahu buried: what the UAE told him before 7 October00:20:50 When Hamas offered all the hostages — and Washington refused00:34:14 Twenty-five years on: how the War on Terror emboldened Israel00:40:44 Inside the Middle East Forum's Muslim surveillance database00:46:09 Israel, the far right, and the manufacture of Islamophobia00:56:30 Britain's settlement sanctions: symbolism or substance?01:04:17 How Jewish institutions were absorbed into the Greater Israel project

In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at Israel’s election campaign and how politicians are competing to run the most hateful campaign in an effort to win support from an increasingly radicalised Israeli public. We also discuss the push to expel Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Israel’s efforts to win US backing for its plans, allegations of apartheid against Palestinian students in Israeli universities, Britain’s proposed sanctions on illegal settlements, Nicaragua’s case against Germany at the ICJ and concerns over the future of UNRWA.Chapters:00:00 Introduction & Overview01:40 Israel’s Election and the Politics of ‘Vice Signalling’08:05 Israel’s Annexation Camp Versus the Control Camp18:24 Israel Seeks Trump’s Support to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza23:31 Blair Asked the PA to Remove Palestine from Textbooks28:05 Apartheid in Israeli Academia After 7 October29:57 Labour’s Sanctions on Israeli Settlements39:46 Britain Owes Palestine46:47 Why Nicaragua Is Taking Germany to the ICJ Over Gaza50:47 The Future of UNRWA and the Race for UN Secretary-General56:20 Is X Shadow-Banning Pro-Palestine Accounts?