On the Eve of Rosh Hashanah: Israel’s War Without End, and the Arab Silence That Nods Along.

Two years of blood and rubble in Gaza, and still Netanyahu beats his war drums like a desperate street performer who knows that if he stops banging, the crowd might finally walk away. Only here, the “crowd” is not admirers—it’s corpses, refugees, and a world staring at Israel’s moral collapse in real time.

The irony is so sharp you could cut glass with it: Israel has “conquered” Gaza for the second time in as many years, yet still has no plan for what comes after. No governance strategy, no recovery strategy—just endless rubble and a permanent funeral procession. A Super Sparta, Netanyahu boasts, as if economic isolation and cultural boycotts were badges of honor.

But perhaps the most bitter lesson is this: while Europe slowly peels away from Israel, while campuses in America explode with protest, the Sunni Arab capitals sit quietly polishing their Abraham Accord handshakes. Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Rabat—nodding along as if Gaza were just an unfortunate weather report from a neighboring country. Their neutrality is not neutrality at all. It is complicity wrapped in the silk of “strategic interests.” They watch Gaza burn and sigh, “business as usual.”

And why not? They recognize the familiar stench. Netanyahu has turned Israel into what they know best: authoritarian, unaccountable, obsessed with martyrs and vengeance, dismissive of civilian lives. Israel, once the “only democracy in the Middle East,” has finally joined the family reunion of regional autocracies. Welcome home.

So when Netanyahu sends jets across Arab skies to bomb Gaza—or perhaps even Tehran—no one blinks. When Israeli ministers talk about annexing the West Bank, Sunni leaders feign amnesia about “Palestinian solidarity.” Because let’s face it: the Abraham Accords weren’t peace deals; they were arms deals, surveillance exchanges, and photo ops for Western approval. The Palestinians were never invited to the signing ceremony. Why start caring now?

Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s coalition has politicized every institution it touches: the army, the police, even the judiciary. His obsession with assassinating Islamist leaders abroad has become both policy and pathology. It’s all theater for his domestic base, who are told to accept dead hostages and endless war as noble sacrifices. After all, “total victory” sounds so much better than “we have no plan.”

And yet, even as Israel stews in its own messianic madness, its neighbors—those same Sunni monarchies and dictatorships—keep the deals alive. Not because they believe in peace, but because in Israel’s callousness, they see their own reflection.

So on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, as Israelis are asked to reflect on the year past, here is the bitter truth: this war has not just destroyed Gaza; it has devoured Israel’s last scraps of credibility. And the Sunni Arab regimes? Their silence is not neutral—it is a green light.

The lesson of two years of war is painfully simple: Netanyahu’s Israel is heedless, merciless, and increasingly friendless—except for Trump’s America and the Arab autocrats who have decided that Palestinian blood is just another price of “stability.”

Happy New Year.

Comments

🔥 Gaza and the Grammar of Death: Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics in the Age of Engineered Survival

By Malik Mukhtar (Full-Length Version with Mbembe Quotations) There are historical moments when the ordinary vocabulary of violence collapses . When “ conflict ,” “ occupation ,” and “ security ” no longer carry the weight required to explain what is unfolding before our eyes. Gaza is one such moment — a rupture in the moral architecture of the present. It is not simply a battlefield. It is an experiment in state-administered dying , in what Achille Mbembe named necropolitic s — the transformation of political power into the authority to dictate who may live and who must die. In Necropolitics (2003), Mbembe writes: “ The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides… in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.” — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics For Gaza, this is not theory. This is the daily grammar of existence. My book, Calculus of Survival: Necropolitics, Siege, and the Deionization of Life in Gaza , is situated squarely within this reality —...

The Leak That Broke the Mirror: Israel’s Moral Collapse at Sde Teiman

n R It was not the torture that shocked Israel. It was the fact that someone leaked it. Welcome to Sde Teiman — the desert detention camp that became a mirror to Israel’s moral decay, and to the world’s selective blindness. The Scene of the Crime The story begins, like most horror stories do these days, with a camera. On July 5, 2024, security footage inside the Sde Teiman military base caught what it was never meant to record: a Palestinian prisoner, blindfolded, bound, and dragged across the floor by Israeli soldiers. Moments later, the soldiers raised shields to block the camera — and behind that human wall, the real Israel revealed itself. When the shields dropped , the man lay broken: seven fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a torn rectum so severe it required surgery and a colostomy. The anatomy of cruelty was complete. The Scandal That Wasn’t You would think such a crime would set off national outrage. But in Israel’s political universe , torture is an...

The Science of Fear: How Islamophobia Became a Campaign Strategy

When Zohran Mamdani stood before a roaring crowd and declared, “ No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election,” he wasn’t just celebrating victory — he was delivering a eulogy for a long, poisonous political playbook. Because let’s face it — Islamophobia has never just been about prejudice. It’s been a strategy — polished, funded, and weaponized into one of the most successful vote-getting formulas in modern politics. The Machinery of Fear The arithmetic is simple — and sinister . Take a minority that makes up barely 2% of the U.S. population . Turn them into the symbolic threat for the other 98%. Feed that fear with millions of dollars , wrap it in the flag , and sell it as “security. ” According to a 2021 CAIR report , more than $105 million was funneled to just 26 anti-Muslim organizations between 2017 and 2019 — money laundered through “ mainstream charitable ” institutions. That’s not democracy in action. That’...

The World as Gaza: Necropolitics and the Calculus of Survival

“ The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.” — Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics” There are philosophies that dissect history, and there are philosophies that bleed through it. Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics belongs to the latter — it is not an academic exercise, but a diagnosis of the world’s moral decay. In his words, modern sovereignty is no longer about governing life — it is about managing death . It decides who is allowed to breathe, who must suffocate, and who will exist in the space between. Nowhere is this calculus of death more visible, more technologically refined, and more ethically bankrupt than in Palestine . The siege of Gaza has transformed necropolitics from theory into geography — a place where the architecture of control and the arithmetic of survival intersect. The Right to Kill, the Duty to Let Die In Necropolitics , Mbembe extends Foucault’s biopower — the power to “...

How to Oppose Annexation Without Actually Opposing It: The Trump Doctrine of Elegant Hypocrisy

The Art of Saying No While Handing Over the Keys: Trump’s De Facto Annexation Gift to Israel Ah yes — the era of “ principled diplomacy.” The Trump administration, that self-proclaimed guardian of “fairness” in the Middle East, will forever be remembered for its masterclass in political double-speak — a rare performance where the United States verbally opposed Israel’s annexation of the West Bank while physically laying down the red carpet for it. It’s like saying, “ Please, don’t steal the car,” while quietly tossing over the keys, disabling the alarm, and complimenting the thief’s driving skills. The Great Paradox — or Just the Great Performance? Let’s call it what it was: a paradox of diplomacy , or perhaps more accurately , a farce performed for global consumption . In words , the Trump administration urged restraint — telling Netanyahu that annexation should be “coordinated,” “negotiated,” and “timed wisely.” In reality , it was busy dismantling every legal and dip...

Ainnbeen

Search This Blog