Endless cycle
This push for 'security belts' feels like a tragic replay of failed strategies from the past. How can more occupation possibly lead to lasting peace? It seems destined to fuel even more resentment and violence.
How Israel’s new ‘security belts’ could impact Middle East stability
LONDON: In what it describes as a campaign of self-defense, Israel has seized approximately 1,000 sq. km of land in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria since October 2023 — about 5 percent of its territory within the 1949 borders, according to a recent analysis. The new zones of control, rights groups say, have displaced millions of people, razed residential areas and destroyed swathes of farmland. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described these territorial seizures as “deep security belts” beyond Israel’s borders.