The Progressive, by Stephen Zunes, October 8, 2025:
Neither U.S. political party actually supports a two-state solution, instead both essentially endorse Israeli control over all of historic Palestine.
Category: Peace and War
Interview: Will Israel uphold ceasefire after Hamas releases hostages?
Channel News Asia/CNA, Singapore’s major news network, Oct. 9, 2025: Israel and Hamas October 8 agreed to a ceasefire after three days of indirect talks in Egypt. Both sides have signed off on the first phase of a United States-led Gaza peace deal. Zunes said concerns remain whether Israel will uphold the ceasefire deal once the hostages are released.
Interview: Gaza Peace Proposal; Israel and Hamas Agree on First Phase of Deal
Interview: Israel and Hamas prepare for ceasefire talks
BBC Television, October 3, 2025: Five-minute interview of Dr. Zunes
Interview: Gaza ceasefire proposals and related issues
KPFA-FM, Pacifica Radio, October 3, 2025: Zunes’s segment begins at 1:05:30
Interview: Trump’s Push against the Left/ANTIFA Executive Order, Netanyahu and the UN
Santita Jackson Show Sept. 28, 2025: Zunes’s segment’s at 34 mins.
Interview: Recognition of Palestine. Symbolic Breakthrough or Empty Gesture?
Wyoming Star, By Joe Yans, Published October 1, 2025:
“… Given that both the Israeli government and the leading opposition have categorically ruled out Palestinian statehood and that the Democrats, like the Republicans, categorically rule out pressuring Israel to compromise, they essentially oppose Palestinian statehood as well. Trump has threatened various forms of retaliation against US allies that have recognized Palestine…”
Interview: Annexation of West Bank and ending the Gaza war
KPFA Evening News (Sunday, Pacifica Radio Network),
September 28, 2025; Zunes’s segment begins at 5:20:
Trump’s opposition to an Israeli annexation of the West Bank, tentative efforts to win the war on Gaza, and Netanyahu’s visit to Washington,
Interview: Why U.S.-led “peace” efforts regarding Israel/Palestine always fail
Thinkers Forum, October 1, 2025: In this two-minute clip Zunes explains why U.S.-led “peace” efforts regarding Israel/Palestine under both Republican and Democratic administrations have failed [see full interview: Everything You Need to Know About the Middle East
“Know Their Names” Event Honors 18,000 Slain Palestinian Children
Santa Cruz, CA, Sept. 5, 2025: Video 1:11; Zunes begins at 15 minutes
Interview: Everything You Need to Know About the Middle East Crisis: Qatar, Israel, Gaza, Trump
Thinkers Forum, Sept. 24, 2025: Amid Israel’s attack on Qatar, what’s next for the Middle East? We speak with Professor Stephen Zunes, who provides insights, analyzes the positions of key players, and explains everything you need to know about the evolving situation in the region.
Interview: Israel’s air strikes in Qatar
CNA (Channel News Asia), Singapore, Sept. 10, 2025
Interview: How will Israeli attack in Qatar affect efforts to end Gaza war?
AlJazeera television, Sept. 10, 2025.
Stephen Zunes, was one of the three guests.
Israel’s bombing of a residential building in the capital, Doha, that was housing Hamas leaders, has drawn global condemnation. Fighter jets fired missiles into a residential compound in central Doha, where leaders of Hamas were meeting to discuss a US proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Interview: Israel’s attack on Gaza City civilians
KPFA-FM/Pacifica, Sept. 5, 2025; segment begins at 40:00.
Israel’s attack on Gaza City increases civilian death toll.
Putin’s Illegal Conquests Wouldn’t Be the First the White House Has Endorsed
New Lines, September 8, 2025: Zunes provides an extensive analysis of how the U.S. position citing the illegality of Russia’s annexation of conquered Ukrainian territory has been compromised by U.S. recognition of illegal Israeli and Moroccan annexations of conquered territories, and thus Trump’s apparent willingness to acquiesce to Russian aggression would not constitute a major break in U.S. policy: Putin’s Wouldn’t Be the First Illegal Conquests the White House Has Endorsed…
Interview, BBC: Thousands demand peace at Tel Aviv rally
BBC Television, September 6, 2025, (4 mins.).
Zunes’s analysis of latest developments in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
Hamas’ control of Gaza brought on by US policy
Zunes’s letter to the editor in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sept. 4, 2025
Hamas’ control of Gaza brought on by US policy
Many thanks to Tim McGirk (Guest Commentary, Aug. 21) for his open letter to Rep. Jimmy Panetta, who continues to support Trump’s policy of facilitating Israel’s war and famine on the civilian population of Gaza. The former Time magazine Jerusalem bureau chief correctly noted a number of Panetta’s dishonest appraisals of the situation.
Unfortunately, McGirk’s review of Gaza’s history may have led some readers to believe the people of that territory elected Hamas to rule them. While this extremist Islamist party did win a plurality in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, they shared governance with the moderate Fatah party until 2007, when the Bush administration pushed Fatah to forcibly remove Hamas from government.
In a brief civil war, Hamas was defeated in the West Bank, but was able to violently seize power in Gaza, where they have tragically remained in power ever since. If the Bush administration hadn’t kept supporting Israel’s occupation and settlements (thereby weakening the moderates) and hadn’t meddled in internal Palestinian politics, Hamas’s control of Gaza and the subsequent horrors would never have occurred.
—Stephen Zunes, Santa Cruz
Interview: U.S. political situation and popular resistance now
Community or Chaos, New Zealand radio show/podcast, Sept. 1, 2025
One hour, while reporting live at Labor Day protests in Santa Cruz, CA.
Democratic Leadership Still Hasn’t Caught Up to the Party’s Base on Gaza
In These Times, September 4, 2025, by Stephen Zunes
Nearly two years in to the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza, there are clear signals the Democratic Party’s
base is moving far away from supporting the Israeli government and its war machine. And while party leadership is beginning to show some hopeful signs it might be starting to listen to constituents’ changing attitudes on the issue of Israel and Palestine…
Interview: Trump-Putin summit in Alaska
KTVU Television, August 18, 2025, a Bay Area network affiliate, immediately following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska a week and a half ago. Zunes’s segment starts at the 1:30 mark.