West Asia has witnessed dramatic adjustments over the previous 15 months.
Over 46,000 Palestinians have been killed, a overwhelming majority of them ladies and youngsters. Almost all of Gaza’s inhabitants has been displaced, a few of them a number of instances. Around 1,00,000 Palestinians have been wounded, and the enclave, which doesn’t have a purposeful, efficient healthcare system, noticed epidemics and an acute starvation disaster.
Israel largely fought a two-front conflict — one in Gaza and the opposite in Lebanon towards Hezbollah. Israel has killed a lot of the prime management of each organisations and degraded their navy infrastructure, which has weakened Iran’s axis of resistance. The fall of the Assad regime in Syria was one other main setback for Iran. Now that Syria, the land bridge for Hezbollah and Iran has been disrupted, Hezbollah would discover it troublesome to rebuild itself.
A weakened Hezbollah, a weakened Hamas, the collapse of the Syria-Iran axis are all excellent news for Israel. Tel Aviv additionally sees the return of Donald Trump to the White House as a optimistic growth. But regardless of these developments, Israel nonetheless faces numerous uncertainties.
Download the unique eBook from The Hindu for a multidimensional understanding on the unfolding disaster in West Asia.
What’s inside:
Introduction – The primacy of the Palestine Question, by Stanly Johny (International Affairs Editor, The Hindu)
The two-state answer: implausible and inevitable, by Bashir Ali Abbas
India and Palestine: between rules and pragmatism, by Okay.M. Seethi
U.S. and Israel: a multilayered relationship in a fractured world order, by Kabir Taneja
West Asia in response to Iran, Iqbal S. Hasnain
Editor’s Note:
This eBook on West Asia is the most recent in The Hindu’s collection of publications that deal elaborately with topics of normal curiosity, which transcend the common information cycle. West Asia is in perennial disaster and the Gaza ceasefire is not more than a short lived reduction from the relentless bombardment of Palestinians by Israeli forces over the final yr.
The guide discusses at size the two-state answer, which appears each implausible and inevitable on the similar time; India’s place on Palestine, which frequently appears contradictory sandwiched as it’s between ethical rules and geopolitical pragmatism; the U.S.’s particular relationship with Israel that skews the dynamics of the area; and the affect of Iran on the militias that impacts all stakeholders in West Asia.
This collection of books in digital format will likely be accessible free for subscribers of the web version, together with ePaper, and accessible for buy for others.
Each eBook relies on a single theme and seeks to be complete with articles from topic consultants throughout the world. We intend to publish this collection often; and thereby construct a big digital library for our reader neighborhood.
Suresh Nambath, Editor, The Hindu
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Published – April 29, 2025 12:28 pm IST
