ZIONIST EXPANSIONISM IN LEBANON

Author : Gilbert Achcar, Professeur émérite, SOAS, Université de Londres

Author: Adil Faouzi, a Moroccan journalist with a Master's degree in Media Studies from Qatar. Adil contributes about the Western Sahara dispute, Morocco-Israeli relations, and Jewish-Muslim coexistence

Eretz Yisrael is  a sacred geography that has animated prayer for millennia. But turning liturgy into latitude – elevating “Greater Israel” from scripture and slogans into a political program – isn’t faith; it’s maximalist cartography dressed in messianic rhetoric. It collapses ethics into acreage and swaps statecraft for a theology of permanent exception.

La Cisjordanie abrite 3,3 millions de Palestiniens, mais la répression d'État et la violence des colons israéliens vont de pair pour atteindre l'objectif déclaré de déplacer les Palestiniens et d'annexer leurs terres.

The West Bank is home to 3.3 million Palestinians but state repression and Israeli settler violence work hand in hand towards the declared aim of displacing Palestinians and annexing their land.

American presidents are not required to pass mental health exams or psychological and psychiatric evaluations before taking office in the United States. But some psychologists and members of Congress have called for such mental health exams for candidates following the 2016 election of Republican Donald Trump.. Even members of Trump's own administration expressed concern about his "erratic behavior" in office.

U.S.-based international law experts, professors, and practitioners write to express profound concern about serious violations of international law and alarming rhetoric by the United States, Israel, and Iran in the present armed conflict in the Middle East.

 Iranian power plants and other critical civilian infrastructure are protected from attacks by the law of war the United States helped craft after World War II. Such an object can lose its protection only if it is used for military purposes by the enemy and its destruction “offers a definite military advantage.” Even then, such an object can be attacked only if, after a case-by-case rigorous analysis, the “concrete and direct military advantage anticipated” outweighs the civilian suffering that is expected to result.

In the recent past  the U.S. that has been called a rogue state because of its military intervention in different parts of the world; using force to quell opposition and expel illegal immigrants by deploying the National Guard. Threats under the Trump administration towards Greenland, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba,  Panama and Iran, and its recent act of regime change in Venezuela.

The United States has a track record of periodic attacks and occupations of states under the pretext of regime change.

EASTER 2026

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In the light of Easter, Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!

Author: Stephen M. Walt ( American political scientist serving as the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School)