What Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right really mean when they invoke ‘Greater Israel’ Daniel Levy | The Guardian | April 13th 2026

Much remains unclear about the significance and durability of the two-week pause in the US and Israel’s war on Iran. But one aspect of the conflict remains as clear today as it was six weeks ago. Donald Trump doesn’t have a plan. Benjamin Netanyahudoes. Israel’s war aims were to maximally degrade the capacity of the Iranian state, achieving not so much regime change as state implosion. Despite the ceasefire, Netanyahu has emphasised that this is “not the end of the campaign” and that Israel’s “finger is on the trigger” to resume combat. A...

Daniel Levy briefing statement to UN Security Council February 26th 2025

Thank you to the Council and Chinese Presidency. Thank you, Ambassador Fu, and good luck to Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Sigrid Kaag, in your new-ish position. I would like to offer some thoughts on the immediate challenges and the broader scaffolding possibly required for a better future. Israelis deserve security. Palestinians deserve security. Zero-sum outcomes can never deliver that. One inescapable anchor of this reality must be an acknowledgement of the power asymmetry between an occupying, colonizing state and an occupied, colonized, stateless people. ...