Abu Obeida’s statement about Hamas’ ambush of IDF troops inside one of its tunnels, and the killing and capture of a number of them, has dire implications for Netanyahu: 1. It underscores how Israel’s war on Gaza has spectacularly backfired. Rather than ensuring the release of…

The divisions we are seeing today between Europe and the US over Palestine fundamentally revolve around upholding the liberal imperialist framework and rules-based order that they jointly created. European states are more predisposed to the more subtle method of maintaining…

THREAD: Israel hasn’t just lost this war, but has preemptively undermined its chances of victory in all future wars. Its abysmal track record over the past 7+ months in weakening, let alone dismantling, Hamas coupled with its failure to neutralise the threat posed by Hizbullah to…

In his speech just now, Nasrallah drew attention to a critical but often overlooked objective of Hamas in the current war with Israel: bringing the Palestinian cause back into the global spotlight and back into the popular “wijdan” (conscience). This is especially significant…

Thread: It's hard to believe that Israel can afford to snub the US sponsored cease-fire proposal that Hamas has accepted. While this remains a very real possibility given Israel's increasingly irrational behaviour, another scenario is also possible 1/