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Items by Aziz Mustafa
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Rabbis are taking control of the Israeli army instead of generals
Amid a rising wave of religious influence in Israeli political and party circles — driven by the ruling right-wing coalition —Jewish Torah-based organisations have become the largest source of donations to Israeli soldiers on military bases. These donations primarily consist of religious texts, including the Torah and the Talmud,...
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Netanyahu continues to undermine Israel’s security and military establishment
Ever since the Israeli government and military failed to intercept the Hamas attack on 7 October, 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has focused on shifting the blame onto senior security and military officials. This deliberate effort appears aimed at deflecting public scrutiny from his own share of responsibility for...
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Israel declares war on its own Palestinian citizens
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) recently approved a draft law prohibiting any university student organisation from expressing sympathy with entities deemed hostile to the occupation of Palestinian territory, particularly resistance forces, which it labels as “terrorists”. This law specifically targets student unions and blocs associated with Palestinian students from the...
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The goals of Israel’s ongoing aggression against Syria
Israel’s aggressive operations against Syria continue by air and on the ground, imposing new realities at a time Syria’s leadership is preoccupied with internal affairs. This suggests that Israel’s approach to Syria goes beyond mere military strikes but rather aims at reshaping the Middle East, as it had announced...
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The challenges facing Eyal Zamir: The 24th commander of the occupation army
General Eyal Zamir officially assumed his new position as commander of the Israeli occupation army, succeeding the resigned commander Herzi Halevi, following his failure to counter Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023 and his shortcomings in the Gaza war. Zamir has held prestigious leadership positions within the military establishment, including...
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Israel is on the verge of going to war with international judicial bodies
Arrest warrants issued by international legal institutions continue to have serious repercussions on the Israeli occupation, as they represent another step in the global legal campaign against it. These courts may soon issue arrest warrants against more senior officials in the occupation army, which, if enacted, would be part...
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Israeli frustration over its failure to overthrow Hamas in Gaza after the war stopped
Now that the Israeli aggression on Gaza has ended, albeit temporarily, the Israelis, after nearly 500 days since the 7 October attack, are still searching for an answer to the historical question of why Hamas carried out this attack. Meanwhile, they are ignoring the fact that the Palestinians broke...
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Data on the rise in ‘reverse Jewish immigration’ shocks Israelis
The report by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics at the beginning of the new year, 2025, regarding the reverse immigration of Jews was like fuel poured on the fire of political conflicts in Israel, because the bleak number appearing in the headlines of the Israeli media represented the...
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The countdown begins to topple Netanyahu's government and remove him from the political scene
While the leaders of the Israeli occupation continue to repeatedly claim that they have “changed” the Middle East, the prevailing conviction among them, far from these demagogic and populist terms, raises the need to view the changes taking place in the region within a context that may carry many...
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Israel is becoming more and more isolated due to its genocide
Due largely to its ongoing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israel is becoming increasingly isolated politically and diplomatically around the world. It appears to have forgotten earlier warnings about a “diplomatic tsunami” that could damage its reputation internationally. The occupation state is facing a number of crises,...
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Israeli prepares to annex the occupied West Bank and impose a fait accompli on the Palestinians
As soon as it was known that Donald Trump will be back in the White House in January, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that 2025 would be the year to impose the occupation state’s sovereignty over “Judea and Samaria”, known to the rest of the world as...
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Israelis are pessimistic after one year of war in Gaza
Israeli assessments after one year of the occupation state’s war against the Palestinians in Gaza, and whether it has succeeded or failed in its objectives, have varied. It is admitted that Israel has seen some strategic confusion and a sign of crisis concerning its standing with international public opinion....
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Gaza war forces countries around the world to freeze their arms deals with Israel
The world is getting alarmed over the continued war on Gaza and the ongoing crimes committed by the Occupation, despite all international appeals. This has led the United States to delay a shipment of weapons for Israel, causing tension between the two. The delay is affecting hundreds of shipments...
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More Israelis are calling for a stop to the war on Gaza
After nine months of aggression on Gaza, Israeli assessments agree that it is not like any other aggression launched by the Occupation in recent decades. Perhaps it is because those facing it this time are organisations that are more in number and better coordinated and equipped; a combination that...
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The occupation army is being affected seriously by suicide, low morale and mental illness
More than 250 days since the outbreak of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli occupation army is slowly revealing the issues that are killing its troops, along with other factors which limit its ability to achieve its purported objectives. I’m talking about an increasing number...
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Israel’s economy is creaking under the effects of its assault on Gaza
The consequences of Israel’s military assault against the Palestinians in Gaza are ongoing, dealing blows to the occupation state from every direction, the latest of which is at the economic level. Newspaper headlines report from time to time that yet another global ranking company has rated Israel as low....
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Israelis are frustrated and pessimistic about the future of their state
Israelis are getting more pessimistic about the future of their state, mainly due to the deteriorating security situation, as well as the large gap between secularists and religious groups. According to polls and surveys, Israelis have become more pessimistic than they used to be. The question is why? Why...