AS the world remains fixated on the US-Iran conflict, elsewhere in the Middle East, Israel is consolidating its grip on occupied Arab territory, while key officials within the Israeli regime are advocating a Gaza-like genocide in the West Bank. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said that the Zionist state will “annex” the territory it has occupied in Gaza and Lebanon. But his plan for the West Bank is even more chilling. The far-right provocateur has called for a “war” in the occupied territory, and........

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