Mehdi Hasan’s recent remarks cut to the heart of two urgent crises: Israel’s deliberate erasure of any possibility of a Palestinian state and America’s reckless military overreach.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it explicit: there will never be a Palestinian state. His government just approved the construction of 3,400 new homes in the West Bank, cementing a policy of permanent occupation. Israeli forces have rounded up more than 1,500 Palestinians in Tulkarem, many held without charge—hostages in all but name. As Hasan notes, Israel’s far-right leadership is refreshingly honest in its brutality, admitting openly what U.S. politicians still pretend is not true: the two-state solution is dead, buried under settlements and enforced through mass detention.Meanwhile, the United States risks repeating old mistakes. The recent attack on a boat off Venezuela, which killed 11 people, looks less like counter-narcotics and more like an act of mass murder. President Trump offers no evidence, only rhetoric. Congress, once again, cedes its war-making powers, leaving presidents free to wage secret wars from the Caribbean to Korea.
Together, these crises expose the collapse of international law and the dangers of unchecked power. If America continues to arm Israel’s apartheid and expand its own militarism abroad, we will only fuel more war, injustice, and human suffering.
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