Al Jazeera Dec. 1, 2025 (5 mins., English): On the situation in Gaza and the West Bank and the responsibilities of the United States and the international community.
Category: Trump
Trump Foreign Policy
Interview BBC: UN Security Council resolution supports Trump’s post-war Gaza plan
A Peace Prize for Trump the Militarist?
The Nation, November 25, 2025, Stephen Zunes
While he has been more reluctant than some presidents to put US troops in harm’s way, Trump has dismissed checks on his use of military force, saying, “We’re just gonna kill people.”
Interview: Israel violates Gaza ceasefires
KPFA Pacifica Radio, Nov. 21, 2025 [begins at 1:05:50]
Latest developments in the Israel Gaza war and West Bank.
Generational Shift: An Assessment of Evolving Student Attitudes on College Campuses Towards Israel
Has Trump Finally Ended Western Sahara’s Dream of Freedom?
The Nation, November 13, 2025: The international community must decide which principle will prevail: the right of self-determination or the right of conquest [ audio podcast 6 mins.]
U.S. supports Israel’s atrocities
Arab Organisation for Human Rights UK, Webinar Nov 16, 2025
Israel’s atrocities — genocide, torture, and extrajudicial executions — are made possible by U.S. military, diplomatic, and financial support. Zunes stressed that targeted killings of U.S. citizens and mounting evidence of Israeli crimes are shifting American public opinion in unprecedented ways. He highlighted the crucial role of human rights organisations and Israeli activists documenting abuses, calling this moment a rare opportunity to push for a major shift in U.S. policy.
Interview: Developments in US policy on Israel/Palestine
KPFA, Pacifica, Evening News, November 9, 2025 [starts at 14:20]
Interview: U.S. Policy Towards Israel/Palestine: What it is and How We Can Change It
Alice Liebowitz’s podcast “Conversations against Fascism,”
October 27, 2025: A half-hour good overview of Zunes’s analysis.
Interview: Activists for Palestine should keep on
WORT, Wisconsin public radio, October 26, 2025:
Stephen Zunes Tells Activists for Palestine to Keep On, addresses Gaza ceasefire agreement and Israeli military and settler attacks in the West Bank…
Interview: Israel occupation and prospects for a Palestinian State
WBAI, Pacifica Radio, NYC, Building Bridges,
Oct 27, 2025: (30 mins. starting at 3:30)
Interview: Gaza ceasefire, enforcement, prospects
KPFA Evening News (Sunday) – October 26, 2025 (begins at 11 mins.)
The Only Remaining Colony in Africa Continues its Struggle for Independence
Inter Press Service, October 30, 2025, By Thalif Deen
[quoting Stephen Zunes; source link]
Described as a non-self-governing territory in northwestern Africa fighting for decolonization, Western Sahara is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence… A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975… On October 30, the UN Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft resolution on the future of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
Interview: Gaza/Israel ceasefire
Hudson Mohawk Magazine/Sanctuary Community Radio,
upstate New York, Oct. 22, 2025 (10-mins.) with Mark Dunlea.
After two weeks, the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is still holding, despite numerous continued killings by Israel’s IDF and a delay by Hamas in turning over some bodies of dead hostages they claim are buried under the rubble from Israel’s missiles. Updates the situation and Zunes’s article, “A Shaky Ceasefire is Better Than an Ongoing Genocide.”
Interview, KPFA: No Kings protests & Ceasefire
KPFA-FM Sunday Show, October 19, 2025: Full first hour.
Also, on Pacifica Radio affiliated stations about the shaky Gaza ceasefire, the October 18 No Kings protests, and related issues.
Interview, KPFA: Shaky ceasefire better than none
KPFA-FM and Pacifica affiliates, October 17, 2025:
With Kris Welch, 20-minutes. Segment runs 14-34 mins.
Interview: Gaza Ceasefire with Bennis & Batrice
Santita Jackson Show, October 13, 2025: Zunes discusses the Gaza ceasefire with Rania Batrice and Phyllis Bennis.
A Shaky Ceasefire Is Better Than An Ongoing Genocide
By Stephen Zunes The Progressive, October 16, 2025;
republished by CommonDreams.org, October 17, 2025,
“It’s Up to the Global Community to Transform
the Gaza Ceasefire Into a Lasting Peace.”
But recent violations by Israel call the new deal into question. Whether Israel actually withdraws from the occupied Gaza Strip and upholds the ceasefire remains in question, so long as the Trump administration and US congressional leadership of both parties refuse to condition military aid to Israel.
Interview, BBC: Problems with ceasefire agreement
Interview, BBC: Return of Hostages
BBC Television, October 12, 2025: Zunes assesses the ceasefire, the hostage release, and what is to come on.

