This Week In Palestine

In this week’s episode, we turn our attention to a conversation that has been stirring debate across global media and academic circles alike—a recent analysis by journalist and political commentator Ali Abunimah, titled “Israel’s Catastrophic Failure.” This discussion arrives at a moment when the region is still trembling from the aftershocks of the Gaza war, and when the political landscape of the Middle East is shifting in ways that even seasoned analysts struggle to fully grasp.Abunimah’s commentary cuts through the noise with clarity and precision. In the clip we explore today, he lays out a stark assessment of how Israel’s political and military strategies have not only faltered but unraveled in full view of the world. What was once framed as strength has revealed itself as fragility. What was once presented as control has exposed deep structural cracks. And what was once assumed to be an unshakeable regional order is now being rewritten in real time.At the heart of Abunimah’s analysis is a simple but profound question: What happens when a state built on the projection of power suddenly finds that power slipping?He examines the cascading consequences of the Gaza war—not only for Palestinians, whose suffering remains the moral center of this crisis, but also for Israel’s standing on the global stage. He traces how the war has accelerated a shift in international opinion, widened fractures within long‑standing alliances, and forced governments around the world to confront uncomfortable truths about their own complicity.Abunimah also highlights the geopolitical ripple effects: the recalibration of regional actors, the emergence of new diplomatic alignments, and the growing recognition that the old frameworks—political, military, and ideological—can no longer contain the realities unfolding on the ground.This moment, he argues, reveals the limits of power in the modern Middle East. Not just Israel’s power, but the power of any state that relies on force, occupation, or narrative control to maintain its position. The Gaza war has exposed the fragility of these systems, and in doing so, has opened a window into a future where the balance of influence may look very different from the past.As we listen to this clip, we invite you to sit with the questions it raises: What does failure look like when it is political, military, and moral all at once? What does it mean for a regional order when its central pillar begins to crack? And what possibilities emerge when the world can no longer ignore the consequences of policies that have gone unquestioned for decades?This episode is not just an analysis of a single moment. It is an invitation to understand the deeper forces shaping the Middle East today—forces that will define the region’s future, and the worlds, for years to come.Welcome to This Week in Palestine. Let’s begin. 

Today, we begin with a question that cuts deeper than headlines: What is the war on Gaza really about?They want you to believe it’s religious. They want you to believe it’s ancient hatred or a sudden eruption of violence. But look closer. Think deeper. Because nothing about this war feels spontaneous, accidental, or purely reactive.Was this truly a retaliation for October 7th— or was October 7th the spark that activated a plan already drawn in the shadows?When you watch Gaza being flattened at a pace no military operation could improvise, you start to wonder whether the goal is not retaliation, but removal. Not security, but emptying the land for something else.And here is where the story widens.Some analysts whisper about a future canal— a new trade route that could rival or even replace the Suez Canal. A canal that would run through the very land now being erased. A canal that would shift global power, global trade, global alliances.If such a project existed— who would benefit? Who would lose? Who would quietly support it from behind the curtain?The United States is locked in conflict with Russia and China. China remains the manufacturing engine of the planet. Russia is cut off from Europe and searching for new routes, new partners, new leverage. And the Suez Canal—though Egyptian in name—remains under Western influence.So, imagine a new canal emerging. A canal outside Western control. A canal that shifts the balance of power toward Beijing and Moscow. A canal that turns Israel into a strategic command node in a new global supply chain.Is Israel being protected for its own sake— or for a larger geopolitical design?Is Gaza being destroyed for “security”— or for a future that has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with trade, power, and empire?I’m not telling you what to believe. I’m asking you to think. To question. To see the map beneath the rubble.Because wars are never only about what they claim to be. And Gaza—small, besieged, unbroken Gaza— may be sitting on a future powerful nations are willing to destroy an entire people to control.Stay with us. As we peel back the layers. As we follow the money, the routes, the alliances. As we ask the questions the world avoids.This is This Week in Palestine. And today, we look beneath the surface.

Today, we begin with honesty. We are witnessing an architecture of erasure, a project where history is rewritten with bulldozers and bombs. The world watches; some in silence, others in open complicity. But here, on this program, we refuse silence.We ask the question the world keeps avoiding: How long must a people suffer before their humanity is finally recognized as sacred.To help us peel back the layers of this crisis, we’re bringing you a rare meeting of minds, a deep, unflinching analysis from two of the most formidable scholars working today: Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani.In a conversation originally hosted by India & Global Left, these two analysts map the shifting tectonics of global power. From the “fig leaf” of failed ceasefire resolutions to the unsettling rise of far‑right voices claiming space in the debate, Finkelstein and Rabbani offer the kind of forensic clarity that helps us understand not just what is happening, but why it is happening now.They don’t simply comment on the moment. They chart a roadmap for the global conscience.So, stay with us. As we strip away the silence. As we uplift the resilient. As we carry forward the flame of justice.This journey is shared. It is urgent. And it is sacred. 

This collection of words, testimonies, and scripts is not simply a broadcast—it is a record of truth. Today we traced the crimes of settlers in the West Bank, the genocide unfolding in Gaza, and the silence of governments that enable Israel’s destruction. We named Zionism for what it is: an ideology of erasure, a system of violence that has brought misery and insecurity to millions.  We remembered the fallen children like Hind Rajab, doctors who healed under fire, journalists who carried the truth, activists who gave their lives, and allies aboard the Freedom Flotilla. We honored the voices of conscience across the globe, from students in American universities to Jewish thinkers who dismantled Zionist myths, to everyday workers who marched in solidarity.  We spoke of resistance: resistance in olive trees, in sand, in memory, in testimony. Resistance in refusing silence, in exposing lies, in carrying forward the flame of justice. And we named the enablers—the Western powers whose weapons, money, and silence sustain apartheid.  This is not polite avoidance. This is bold testimony. It is urgent truth‑telling. It is unapologetic solidarity. The struggle for Palestine is not confined to one land, one people, or one moment. It is shared. It is global. And it is sacred.  Stay with us.This is This Week in Palestine. And this is where the silence ends.

As always, we turn our gaze to Gaza. not only to the bombs that fell, not only to the ceasefire that never came, but to the plans whispered in Washington and echoed by Donald Trump.Trump’s vision for Gaza is not peace. It is profit. It is reconstruction for investors, skyscrapers rising over rubble, contracts signed over graves.And he is not alone. He is supported by guarantor states that remained silent, by senators like Ted Cruz who cloak Zionism in scripture, by leaders who normalize relations while hospitals burn. They stand with him— not with the people.But against this agenda, we honor the voices who refused silence. We honor Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Akleh, Issam Abdallah. We honor doctors like Ghassan Abu Sitta and Mona El‑Farra, who healed under fire. We honor students from Columbia, Harvard, Berkeley, and Boston College, who marched, who occupied, who spoke. We honor Americans like Angela Davis, Cornel West, Chris Hedges, and Jewish voices of conscience—Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappé— who exposed the myths and defended the dignity of Palestinians.These are the names, the lives, the legacies that stand against Trump’s Gaza vision. They remind us that Gaza is not a blank canvas for empire. It is a home. It is a people. It is a struggle for truth.So tonight, as Trump and his allies dream of skyscrapers over rubble, we remember the fallen, we honor the resistors, and we declare: Palestine is not for sale. Palestine is not for profit. Palestine is for its people. Stay with us. This is This Week in Palestine. And this is where the silence ends.