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13 posts tagged israel.
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The ceasefire that isn't a ceasefire
Trump's announcement that Hezbollah and Israel will stop fighting masks a deeper trap: Iran is using the ceasefire framework as leverage to slow its own nuclear accountability.
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Israel's Beaufort Castle and the occupation that never ended
Israel's seizure of a 12th-century Crusader fortress in southern Lebanon signals not a temporary operation but a returning logic of permanent buffer-zone occupation.
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Lebanon's army admits it cannot hold the line
The Lebanese army's acknowledgement that it is overstretched against Israeli forces strips away the diplomatic fiction that a sovereign state stands between Israel and Hezbollah's remnants.
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US Congress bets on permanent Israeli military fusion
A Congressional bill to formally integrate US and Israeli military structures signals an attempt to lock in the alliance's operational depth before any future administration can reverse it.
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Israel crosses the Litani: Lebanon's new front
Netanyahu's decision to push Israeli forces across the Litani River marks a qualitative escalation in Lebanon that risks collapsing the fragile post-2006 order.
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Netanyahu orders 70% of Gaza — and strikes Beirut
Israel's PM has ordered the seizure of 70 percent of Gaza while striking the Lebanese capital directly, fracturing every ceasefire arrangement made since October 2023.
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Israel widens Lebanon war with Tyre evacuation
Israel's evacuation order for southern Lebanon and the killing of Hamas's new military chief reveal a war with no clear endgame, testing ceasefire architecture to destruction.
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Israel's Lebanon offensive and the ceasefire fiction
Netanyahu's order to intensify strikes on Hezbollah on Lebanon's Liberation Day exposes how ceasefires have become tactical pauses rather than durable political settlements.
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Netanyahu's UAE secret and Israel's coming election
The revelation of Netanyahu's secret UAE trip during peak Iran hostilities, combined with a coalition crisis over ultra-Orthodox conscription, signals a pivotal political reckoning approaching for Israel.
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Israel's death-penalty tribunal and the Eichmann temptation
The Knesset's unanimous vote for special livestreamed trials with capital punishment for October 7 attackers is historically resonant — but history's lessons about such tribunals are mixed.
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Netanyahu's coalition and the conscription trap
The ultra-Orthodox draft dispute threatening to collapse Israel's government reveals a fundamental contradiction the country has deferred for decades and can no longer afford to.
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London's far-right march and Europe's free speech crisis
Tens of thousands marching in London and five countries boycotting Eurovision over Israel reveal how both right-populist mobilisation and protest suppression are eroding liberal norms simultaneously.
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Lebanon's Sunday deadline, and the limits of brokered peace
With Israel's ceasefire set to expire and strikes continuing daily, the Washington talks reveal how difficult it is to negotiate a durable peace when the most powerful armed actor at the table refuses to sit down.