Writer Adam Shatz on How Oct. 7 & Israel's Brutality in Gaza Reshaped the World

Adam Shatz, U.S. editor at the London Review of Books, says Israel's motivation in the Middle East is to "settle accounts with any force in the region that might challenge its domination." He also notes violent language around foreign policy has become "banal" in many Western countries. "It's not simply Trump and the far right who speak blithely about overthrowing foreign governments, about bombing other foreign populations. It's people who have a reputation … for being liberals and moderates," says Shatz.

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