Israel

Our latest international news digest includes items on an Israeli-Lebanon ‘peace plan’, the founding of a new political party in Spain by the wife of Nick Clegg, the EU’s problematic visa strategy, Ukraine and the forthcoming NATO conference, a US declaration of war on South America and antisemitism false-flag attacks in Canada.

Trump’s contradictions – threatening annihilation one day, offering Iran a free pass the next – reveal a deeper shift. The question now isn’t who's winning in Gaza or Lebanon, but whether Israel is still worth the cost to US imperialism, say Brian Green and Carol Taylor.

From the Straits of Hormuz to the skies over Tel Aviv, the US-Iran deal to end the war isn't a diplomatic triumph, it's a strategic defeat on the scale of Vietnam – and the world knows it.

There is an ongoing debate about whose strategic interests the US/Israel war serves. Is the Israeli tail wagging the US dog or do the US war aims fit into a broader global power struggle? Brian Green says that US interests will prevail in the region and quite possibly at Israel’s expense.

There is an ongoing debate about whose strategic interests the US/Israel war serves. Is the Israeli tail wagging the US dog or do the US war aims fit into a broader global power struggle? Here, John Bernard argues that Israel is calling most of the shots.