While we look at Iran, is Israel going to resume the genocide in Gaza?
JVL Introduction
The world has moved on from Gaza, as though there really was a ceasefire, as though aid was pouring in and reconstruction underway. Now the world is looking at Iran – after all the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has a direct impact on the cost of living in our own countries. The reality is between October 2025 and 10th April 2026 Israel has killed 738 Palestinians in Gaza, more have been killed since then and many more injured. Israel now places a phantom “yellow line” to mark its full control of 58% of the Gaza Strip and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are still living in tents with inadequate food and a sever health crisis.
What is next? It seems that Israel has not given up on obliterating Gaza (or rather resuming the war) because Palestinians are refusing to disarm. The Palestinian delegation that met with the Board of Peace representativ said that would not discuss disarmament “before Israel met all its obligations under the ceasefire’s incomplete first phase, namely the free entry of goods into Gaza and the beginning of reconstruction.”
This article provides much information that has not been reported while we are focused on Iran and, to a lesser extent, Lebanon but, the reality is that Israel’s attacks on Iran and Gaza are interlinked.
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Fri 24 Apr 2026. Read the original here.
Israel is threatening to resume the genocide in Gaza. This time, the world isn’t paying attention.
While the world is focused on Iran, Israel is signaling plans to restart the genocide in Gaza.
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I HOPE the US-Israel war against Iran will be the game-changer that ends the Israeli-US alliance and weakens Israel enough to force it to negotiate a just, sustainable peace with the Palestinians and full reparations for all the wrongs Israel has done them. That may happen.
Trump and Netanyahu attacked Iran believing it and Hezbollah to be so weakened victory would be easy; quick; low cost; and likely to help their political parties win at elections due within months. According to the pundits, Iran has already defeated them and is only willing to negotiate peace on terms that suit it and protect its allies (Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis).
Amongst the consequences of this war for the USA are $17 trillions worth of damage to all its Gulf bases (radar, infrastructure generally, etc) and the loss of Gulf rulers’ confidence in the US to protect their states against Iran and against Israel.
How likely is it that the US can afford to spend $17 trillions over the next couple of years rebuilding those bases, even if the Gulf rulers wanted them back?
What the Gulf states and Iran seem to be doing now is exploring whether rebuilding their relationships and perhaps joining forces could provide better protection for each against attacking states.
The US was disengaging from Israel before the Iran war but the process must have speeded up. A poorer America, with no ME bases to protect and a fractious relationship with Israel will make Israel pay for any US weaponry it gets.
An Israel unable to count on generous US support, almost devoid of other allies and facing neighbours it has attacked – and stolen land from – will have to adjust to its changed situation. Its own best path to a future will then depend on Israel agreeing to full statehood for the Palestinians and paying reparations due from 1948 onwards.
Is Linda living in la-la land? AI gives a total of 5 billion dollars in damage. Where does she get the figure of 17 trillion in damage to U.S. Gulf military bases? By comparison the entire U.S. gross domestic spending this year is
projected to be 7.6 trillion dollars.
AI
Iranian strikes on U.S. Gulf bases in early 2026 caused extensive damage, with estimates suggesting repair costs for infrastructure could exceed $5 billion, far exceeding initial reports of $800 million. Over a dozen bases were hit by missiles and drones, destroying aircraft, radar systems, and key facilities in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.
NBC News
NBC News
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The failure or impossibility of equal rights in the constitution of the political organisations responsible for legal systems , in the founding of the state , follows from the initial military appropriation of jurisdiction in the absence of universal enfranchisement. ..the recurrent military actions are inevitable consequences of unconstitutional expansion and growth. The horrendous result of unjustifiable but inevitable genocide could be seen as natural evolution or divine hyperreality, but the recognition you mention given by the UN in 2020 that Gaza was uninhabitable is evidence that there are no natural or divine solutions : therefore the reasons why the military played a founding role in the establishment of the state need to be recognised as choices , otherwise we will always be stuck with violent appropriation as the consequence of successful political composition – the exact opposite of political legitimacy. A corollary of this is that political legitimacy must regulate growth , and can only do so with a complete and circular, sustainable, economic social and environmental system . Equal enfranchisement of all residents / indigenous/ to the jurisdiction , (however that might be decided), is only one precondition of a workable solution: the ability to function as well the right , is another, and then there is the degree of acceptance of limitations imposed by the deliberative organs and resolutions of the state, even when participation implies consent .
Is any of this anywhere near possible , in either a two state or a one state jurisdiction over the population? Unless these questions can be answered positively, war will be the preferred method of continuation, and lawless growth the prize available to its progenitors.