Palestine - Diplomacy & Politics

Spy Who Came In From the Cold — and Ran for Parliament

Jonathan Pollard served 30 years in an American federal prison for selling the United States' most classified secrets to Israel. Israel granted him citizenship, lobbied for his release and sent Netanyahu when he landed. He announced he is running for the Knesset. Nobody in Washington said a word.

By Sunny Peter

/ 8 May 2026

Spy Who Came In From the Cold — and Ran for Parliament

Annexation That Hides in Plain Sight

Israel is not annexing the West Bank in a ceremony. It is annexing it in permits, bypass roads, settlement expansion and legal reclassification. The process is deliberate, incremental and designed to be complete before anyone formally objects. The annexation hides in plain sight.

By Sunny Peter

/ 1 May 2026

Weaponising the Law: When Discrimination Becomes Statute

Itamar Ben-Gvir walked into the Knesset wearing a noose — a symbol with one precedent in Israeli legal history. The death penalty bill he championed targets Palestinians with discriminatory criteria. Democracy is not only elections. It is also equality before the law.

By Sunny Peter

/ 1 Apr 2026

Weaponising the Law: When Discrimination Becomes Statute

The Shield Is Cracking

For decades, the United States shielded Israel from binding accountability at the ICJ and the ICC. That shield is cracking — not because Washington has changed its position, but because an increasing number of states are willing to act without it.

By Sunny Peter

/ 23 Mar 2026

When the Numbers Don't Lie: Gaza, Lebanon, and the Legal Case Israel Cannot Close

Casualty figures are not just statistics. They are evidence. The scale of civilian death in Gaza and Lebanon, documented by UN agencies and independent monitors, constitutes a legal record that accumulates regardless of how the political argument around it is managed.

By Sunny Peter

/ 12 Mar 2026

When the Numbers Don't Lie: Gaza, Lebanon, and the Legal Case Israel Cannot Close

Gaza Ceasefire Violations: Why October 2025 Agreement Remains Dangerously Fragile

The October ceasefire was signed in good faith by nobody. Both sides entered it with reservations, competing interpretations and no agreed enforcement mechanism. Violations began almost immediately. What was called a ceasefire was, from the start, a temporary reduction in killing.

By Sunny Peter

/ 30 Oct 2025

Gaza Ceasefire Violations: Why October 2025 Agreement Remains Dangerously Fragile

Civil Society's Frontline: How Aid Flotillas Are Reshaping Conflict Diplomacy

Aid flotillas are not humanitarian operations — they are political acts. They challenge blockades, generate confrontations and force governments to respond. Civil society has learned to use the tools of conflict to expose it. The flotilla model is not going away. It is spreading.

By Sunny Peter

/ 9 Oct 2025

Civil Society's Frontline: How Aid Flotillas Are Reshaping Conflict Diplomacy

Between Technocracy and Sovereignty: Can International Administration Work in Gaza?

Some have proposed internationally administered governance for Gaza as an alternative to Hamas or Israeli occupation. The idea is serious — and seriously complicated. International administration has a poor track record. But the alternatives being proposed are no more promising.

By Sunny Peter

/ 7 Oct 2025

Between Technocracy and Sovereignty: Can International Administration Work in Gaza?

Everyone’s Celebrating Trump’s Gaza Plan—Except the People Who’ve Heard These Promises Before

Every administration produces a Gaza plan. Every plan arrives with optimism and departs without implementation. The people who know this best are Palestinians — who have watched the same cycle repeat for thirty years. Celebrations are premature. They always are.

By Sunny Peter

/ 30 Sep 2025

Everyone’s Celebrating Trump’s Gaza Plan—Except the People Who’ve Heard These Promises Before

Gaza Endgame: How Hamas Survival Reshapes Middle East Strategy

Hamas was supposed to be destroyed. It has not been. Its survival — not as a governing force, but as a political and military reality — reshapes every calculation in the Middle East. The war’s original objective has failed. What comes next is being improvised.

By Sunny Peter

/ 4 Sep 2025

Gaza Endgame: How Hamas Survival Reshapes Middle East Strategy

Gaza Crisis: Diplomatic Stalemate as Annexation Calls Deepen Humanitarian Catastrophe

While diplomats negotiated and envoys shuttled, conditions in Gaza continued to deteriorate. The gap between what was being discussed at the diplomatic level and what was happening on the ground was not a failure of information. It was a failure of will.

By Sunny Peter

/ 29 Aug 2025

Gaza Crisis: Diplomatic Stalemate as Annexation Calls Deepen Humanitarian Catastrophe