Saïda Bédar, Crises and the “new order” in the Middle East: the US-Israeli strategy and its limitations. To read the article click here
The “12-day war”, triggered by strikes in Iran (June 13-25, 2025), the war in Gaza (since October 2023), the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon (since October 2024) and the intervention in Syria (since December 2024) should be seen as part of a pre-emptive strategy by the United States and Israel. These conflicts are a continuation of decades of US wars in the region and of efforts to prevent the emergence of alliances between regional powers and China and Russia. Israel is integrated into this strategy as a subsystem, pursuing two concurrent agendas, one in line with US objectives, the other with the option of colonization and the neutralization of Palestinian territorial and national-state claims. Thus, bombing civilians in Gaza so that ultimately the only point of negotiation and international pressure is the cessation of fighting and reconstruction (and not the establishment of a Palestinian state) is nothing new. What is new is the intensity and duration of the war—which today, at the end of July 2025, almost everyone, including on the Israeli left, describes as genocide and the engagement on several fronts at once (Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran). — To read, click here