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A quarter-century after the 'war on terror' began, the American Middle East is over (opens the original)
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Last month, a photographer in Tehran captured a passing scene that seemed unremarkable: people walking past a large anti-American billboard in the city, without so much as glancing up at it. The image ran alongside a lengthy essay titled “The End of the American Middle East” by Marc Lynch, a political science professor at George Washington University, in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Lynch, who belongs to a critical current within the American academic establishment rather than
Israel has the power to dominate, but not to lead the region (opens the original)
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Domination, according to philosopher Antonio Gramsci, is the capacity to coerce, to compel obedience through force. Hegemony is leadership secured through consent - an order that feels natural to those who live under it, so minds acquiesce before bodies are made to obey. Domination can prohibit and destroy; it cannot persuade, build or lead. This is the standard against which Israel’s supposed “hegemony” should be judged in light of its continuous war, which has extended from 2023 to the present
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