A building damaged during an Israeli strike on Tehran on June 13, 2025, when Israel struck around a hundred targets in Iran, including nuclear facilities and military command centers, killing senior officials, scientists and dozens of civilians. (Credit: Atta Kenare/AFP)
Israel is waging a war of eradication in Gaza and pushing forward with is annexation of the West Bank. It occupies part of southern Syria and Lebanon and is acting freely in both countries, striking at will. In its immediate environment, Israel is exploiting the fragility of the region's eclectic social fabrics to increase its power and impose itself as the one and only decision-maker in the Middle East. It benefits from the indulgence, and in some cases even the support of local regimes, which share with Israel a common hostility not only toward political Islam, whether Sunni or Shiite, but also toward any attempt at democratic transition in the region. And after fighting against a collapsing pro-Iran axis, after decapitating Hezbollah, Israel moves to the next level and now directly targets the heart of its sworn enemy. Israel's...
Israel is waging a war of eradication in Gaza and pushing forward with is annexation of the West Bank. It occupies part of southern Syria and Lebanon and is acting freely in both countries, striking at will. In its immediate environment, Israel is exploiting the fragility of the region's eclectic social fabrics to increase its power and impose itself as the one and only decision-maker in the Middle East. It benefits from the indulgence, and in some cases even the support of local regimes, which share with Israel a common hostility not only toward political Islam, whether Sunni or Shiite, but also toward any attempt at democratic transition in the region. And after fighting against a collapsing pro-Iran axis, after decapitating Hezbollah, Israel moves to the next level and now directly targets the heart of its sworn enemy. Israel's...
