If there is an uprising in the West Bank, it will likely be armed in some way, but it will be politics that decides the form, specifically whether or not there can be a realignment and unification of the resistance based on willingness to combat the occupation.

Should that prove possible to operationalise in the West Bank,

then I think we will see something like a more coordinated form of uprising.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Interregnum, PTO's show within a show, where I talk

with Richard Seymour about global current events and much else besides.

In today's episode, we discussed the possibility of Israel's assault on Gaza, leading to broader escalation in the Middle East.

We talked about the strategic calculations of Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthi militia and Israel,

the possibility of the United States, increasing its involvement on Israel's side,

and whether the attack on Gaza might destabilize Egypt.

And finally, we talked about the proceedings at the International Court of Justice,

where South Africa has asked the ICJ for an urgent order,

declaring that Israel is in breach of its obligations

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Richard Seymour is the author of many books, including Disaster Nationalism,

which will be published later this year.

Sir Richard, in the last couple of weeks, we've seen the chances of Israel's assault on Gaza,

expanding to Lebanon or even to a confrontation with

Iran substantially increase. On the 2nd of January, the IDF killed Hamas leader Saleh al-Aroori

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