WorldcrunchAmr Adly is assistant professor in the department of political science at The American University in Cairo. He writes for Egyptian newspaper Al-Manassa
Trump and Netanyahu have both pushed the idea of forcing Palestinians out of Gaza, but it has gotten nowhere. The specter of a massive displacement of people has gotten vocal push back from large parts of the world. Instead, the recent return to slaughtering innocents doesn’t seem to provoke must international opposition.
The latest developments in the Middle East are part of longer-term shifts that are pushing to U.S. into a tougher stance in the region.
Israel’s war on Gaza, with the support of the West, is not far from the necessities of capitalist accumulation in many regions of the world, or at least about managing the crisis of contemporary global capitalism.