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Author: Stephen Zunes
By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern
For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies News Line Magazine Feb. 14, 2025: By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern
Interview BBC: Israel violates, threatens to end Gaza ceasefire
Interview: Ukraine Peace Negotiations
Interview: Trump Gaza Plan: Ethnic Cleanse Gaza
Trump’s Plan for Gaza Expulsion Rooted in Decades of U.S. Policy
The Progressive Feb. 11, 2025: Zunes’s latest article looks at Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and have the United States seize the territory for tourist development, noting that while this is one of the more extreme and reprehensible proposals from an American president, neither party has appeared willing to support Palestinian rights or international law [source].
Lecture: U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump
Video February 9, 2025: A talk for the Alameda County Green Party entitled “U.S. Middle East Policy Under Trump: How It Will Differ from Biden (and How It Won’t)”
Interview: Trump’s plans to ethnic cleanse Gaza
KPFA-FM news February 9, 2025; Segment begins at 14-mins.: Trump’s plans for ethnic cleansing in Gaza and other issues.
Interview: Gaza Ceasefire, Trump & Netanyahu
Al-Jazeera English February 5, 2025 (5 mins.): Following Trump’s press conference with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu [source]
Interview: Trump’s policy toward Palestinians
Two recent interviews on CNA television, Singapore-based multinational news channel:
Jordan, Egypt unlikely to take in more Palestinian refugees despite Trump’s threats (8 mins.)
Trump’s proposal to ‘clean out’ Gaza disturbing (7 mins.)
What a Second Trump Presidency Could Mean for the Pro-Palestine Movement
The Progressive February 3, 2025
Examines how a Trump presidency will make U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine even worse than under Biden, but how it might spawn a bigger backlash that could end up forcing real change in U.S. policy in the longer term. [source]
Interview: Israel’s devastating military offensive in the occupied West Bank
Al-Jazeera English “Inside Story” February 4, 2025: One of three experts, Zunes’s segment begins at 9 mins. of 27.
Interview: Gaza Ceasefire Status
Al Jazeera English January 25, 2025 (video 6-minutes) on the status of the Gaza Ceasefire agreement and U.S. policy. [source]
UN Faces Backlash from a Hostile White House
Inter Press Service UN Bureau Report, Jan 30 2025
Dr. Zunes is quoted extensively in this report:
“No leader of a major power since the UN’s founding in 1945 has expressed such disdain for fundamental principles of international law.” It should be remembered, though, that the United States was already undermining such principles under previous administrations, he pointed out. For example, even under (former US President Joe) Biden, the United States recognized Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights and Morocco’s illegal annexation of Western Sahara, both seized by military force in contravention to unanimous UN Security Council resolutions. Hostility towards UN agencies isn’t new either, said Dr Zunes… [source]
Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s rejection of the rule of law
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Guest Commentary, January 2025:
Addresses a bill to punish those associated with the International Criminal Court for investigating war criminals allied with the United States, for which all 205 Republicans and 42 Democrats voted in favor, including Zunes’s Congressperson Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19). [source]
ICAHD UK Webinar ‘The Palestinian Struggle in the Age of Trump’
Israeli Committee Against House Demolition UK Webinar
‘The Palestinian Struggle in the Age of Trump,’ 23 Jan 2025
[Zunes’s segment starts at 28 minutes; video source]
Professors Stephen Zunes and Leila Farsakh were distinguished guests, moderated by Jeff Halper. Leila Farsakh works with several international organisations and is a senior research fellow at the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University and chair of the One Democratic State Campaign. They provided historical background about Palestinian resistance, the centrality of the Palestinian refugees, the different approaches taken by the Palestine Authority and Hamas, and how Trump is worse than Biden. It is expected that Israel’s apartheid policies will intensify and as Palestinians continue to resist living under oppression as they seek freedom and justice, their struggle will be bloody. However, with Trump in office and the flagrant Republican agenda, it will likely mobilize unprecedented opposition among leftists, liberals, and a growing segment of the US Democratic Party.