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An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, December 14, 2023
ISRAEL’S ambassador to Britain, hard-right politician Tzipi Hotovely, has said it out loud.
Israel will never, she told Sky News, accept a two-state solution to the crisis in Palestine. That is an embarrassingly blunt admission for the US and British governments, which continue to rhetorically advocate the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Hotovely is hardly an outlier. Israeli sovereignty over the entire territory of historic Palestine is a dogma for the Netanyahu government and the revisionist zionist tradition in which it is rooted.
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
