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'Long-term success beyond this ceasefire requires acknowledging a critical fact that the West has ignored to date: resolving the Palestine issue is central to achieving several connected goals -to contain Zionism and Israeli expansionist aims, end US imperial actions and Israeli hegemonic ones, and allow all states in the Middle East to live in peace with equal rights and sovereignty...
Much remains to be clarified. But one victim of this war to date has clearly been American credibility, both as a negotiating actor and a security partner and guarantor for Arab states...
We cannot and should not waste time guessing or assuming what happens next in the Middle East. More important is to honestly assess what has actually happened over the past century.
The significance of this only emerges if one appreciates a linked chain of events, in reverse historical order: the US-Israel attacks on Iran in June 2025 and February-April 2026; the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 and Israel’s genocidal war that followed; the Israeli siege of Beirut and occupation of South Lebanon in 1982; the US-UK coup against the elected prime minister of Iran in August 1953; the UN partition of Palestine resolution in November 1947; and the issuing of the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 in London that promised UK support for a Jewish homeland in 93 percent Arab Palestine.'
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