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Anas Iqtait

Anas Iqtait

Dr Anas Iqtait is a senior lecturer at the Australian National University and the author of Funding and the Quest for Sovereignty in Palestine (Palgrave, 2023).

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announcing a major expansion of settlement building in the West Bank.

Israel’s annexation of the West Bank has been occurring for decades

Israel’s parliament is debating applying Israeli law over the West Bank. Its control of the region, however, has been growing without such ceremony.

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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.

Tony Blair supervising Palestinian ‘modern governance’ is satire, not diplomacy

The newly unveiled 20-point “peace plan” for Gaza has been presented as a blueprint to end the war. In reality, it is designed less to resolve conflict than to reframe it.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will recognise Palestine as a state.

Albanese could make a difference on the ground in Gaza. He’s chosen not to

Australia must end arms and dual-use technology sales and co-operation with Israel, including revising or withdrawing from supply chains that feed Israel’s war machine.

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