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Could the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon be a new “divine victory”? That was how the agreement that ended the Israeli…
Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon. He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. His books include The New Cold War: Chronicle of a Confrontation Foretold. Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising; The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising; The Clash of Barbarisms; Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy; and The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. He is a member of Anti-Capitalist Resistance.
The party fell into the trap set for it by Israel, through its insistence on continuing to exchange fire with it “until…
Israel’s escalating war, the genocide in Gaza and the opening up of new fronts of Zionist-led violence have once again focused the…
[This article was written hours before the mass terrorist act that targeted Hezbollah members through pagers in the afternoon of 17 September,…
Abu Dhabi and Qatar are the two brother enemies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Their consanguinity is evinced in several areas.…
The Russian bombing that targeted a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, last week, killing dozens, naturally provoked a massive wave…
Recent weeks have witnessed a sharp escalation of the exchange of fire between the Lebanese resistance and Israeli forces in South Lebanon/North…
First published in Arabic at Al-Quds al-Arabi. Translation from Gilbert Achcar’s blog. If further proof of the limitations of traditional “representative democracy” was needed,…
Since the end of last week, the news related to the ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip have been overshadowed by…
The intensity of reactions from pro-Israel circles against that movement is only a confirmation of the importance of this development, which it…