Mouin Rabbani is a researcher and longtime analyst of Middle Eastern politics. He is also coeditor of Jadaliyya and a nonresident fellow at the Qatar-based Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies.
Two years into its war on Gaza, Israel faces global condemnation and a growing Palestinian solidarity movement. Yet, as analyst Mouin Rabbani explains, US support remains unwavering, and Israel shows little concern for the world’s outrage.
The news that many Western nations have recognized Palestine has driven Israel and its allies into a fit of hysteria. Israel’s leaders knows that it is too weak to dominate its region alone.
Israel has used snipers and even naval artillery to attack Gazans lining up for aid as part of a long-term plan to ethnically cleanse the strip. Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani explains what might be capable of constraining Benjamin Netanyahu.