Why Injustice in Palestine Sparks Resistance and Conflicts Across the Middle East

Among the most striking aspect of events in the Middle East and the world these days is how so many political, economic, cultural, and military battles taking place in every case can be traced back to their link with the Zionism-Arabism or Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

The 130-year-old Palestine issue has overspilled its geographic borders to touch people across the entire world, and even to impact US electoral battles and trigger American warfare against Iran that destabilizes the global economy. This is because the struggle for justice for all in Palestine has become a universal moral touchstone of our age.

This started before the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and has now gained steam in politics, the media, education, and many other fields of life. It must be resolved equitably and peacefully for the expanding turmoil and suffering in the region to wind down, and for  Palestinians, Israelis, Arabs, and Jews across the world to live again without racism, genocide, prejudice, death and displacement.

Rami G. Khouri is an author and media analyst.  He is Distinguished Public Policy Fellow (Issam Fares Institute) and Director, Anthony Shadid Archives Research Project at the American University of Beirut.   He is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Arab Center, Washington DC and the 2026-27 Amman Prize Fellowship recipient at the American Center of Research, Amman, Jordan.   Rami posts on Substack at https://ramigkhouri.substack.com/ and on X at @RamiKhouri.

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