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A brilliant and deeply relevant analysis by Elian Weizman and Sai Englert of liberal zionists’ co-responsibility for the genocide in Gaza:

Open access and lucid.

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The argument being made here is that although the internal conflict over the control of the Israeli state that many identify is very real, this conflict should not be understood as waged between two antithetical and irreconcilable factions, but between two complementary wings of the Zionist movement: Two wings that have always co-existed (in different configurations and under different balances of forces) in the history of the Zionist project, and which both play crucial roles for its success. The conflict is not over the settler-colonial project itself, but rather on how to best organise it.8 Accordingly, we argue that the conflict is generative for the development of the Israeli state’s colonial project and helps the settler colony develop its approach and policy towards the Indigenous population. Building on these insights, and on genocide studies literature, we point to liberal Zionist discourse and practice on the genocide in Gaza, as complementary to its illiberal counterpart. Right-wing and liberal Zionism not only collaborate but build on one another. In addition, liberal Zionists play an important role in generating acceptability internationally, both during and in the aftermath of genocide, in projecting ideas of ‘limits’ and ‘ethics’ despite their participation in the crimes committed – both through ideological justification and practically, with many taking an active role in its execution as reservists, military strategists, and state officials. We end with a reflection on the recent re-emergence of liberal Zionists, both in Israel and abroad, out of the killing frenzy, and their attempt at re-inserting Israel within the liberal western status quo. They have done so, however, without questioning the ‘military gains’ of the last twenty-one months. This, we argue, serves both as a way to attempt to improve their position in the internal balance of forces in Israel and re-stabilise the Zionist project internationally in the aftermath of genocide.
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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My main responsibility as commander of the 252" was to implement the withdrawal from the Sinai. Israel had committed itself to bring all of our forces behind the 1967 border within next two years, and, along with Dan, I threw my energy into planning and implementing the terms of the treaty. But especially with Begin soon facing a reelection campaign against Labor, now led by Shimon Peres, he was keen to play to the opponents of any further negotiating concessions. He was positioning himself as the voice of military strength, and painting Peres as someone who would risk our security by going further than the separate peace with Sadat. Begin had no more experience or knowledge of military details than Shimon. But from his days in the pre-state Irgun, he’d been an unapologetic admirer of men of military action. After his victory in the 1977 election, he’d formed a government stocked with some of Israel’s best-known former generals. Not just Ezer Weizman. He’d brought back Moshe Dayan, as foreign minister. And as agriculture minister, the country’s most swashbuckingly self-confident, and controversial, battlefield commander: Arik Sharon. Begin had recently lost both Ezer and Dayan, who accused him of deliberatedly torpedoing chances of building on the peace with Egypt. But Arik was still there, four-square behind a more forceful military posture on Israel’s other fronts. As agriculture minister, he had also been the driving force in a plan for settlement “blocs” designed to encircle the main Arab towns and cities on the West Bank and foreclose any realistic prospect of a Palestinian state. After Begin’s second election victory, in June 1981, some commentators, and many in Labor, insisted that he’d won because of a dramatic surprise air strike, a few weeks before election day, against a French-built nuclear reactor outside Baghdad. I never believed that, in part because I knew from intelligence friends that the attack had been set for earlier, and was put back because
February 9, 2026 at 10:37 PM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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#epsteinweb #houseoversight028033
a peace treaty. Again, I was watching closely, via American TV. But as the summit was winding down, our phone suddenly rang in Palo Alto. “Ehud, how’s it going? Are you following what’s happening here? What do you think?” I recognized the voice immediately: Ezer Weizman, the former fighter pilot Begin had chosen as his defense minister. I’d known Ezer since the early 1960s, when he’d been commander of the air force and Sayeret Matkal was planning its first operations. Still, even though he had a reputation for batting ideas back and forth outside the bounds of hierarchy or chain of command, I was startled to hear from him. “What do I think about what?” I said. “The solution we’ ve arrived at here. We found there was no way but to give back everything.” The only exception was Taba, a sliver of land where the Negev met the eastern edge of the Sinai, across from the Jordanian town of Aqaba. “Was there no way to convince them, even with some kind of a land swap, to keep the two air bases?” I asked. “Believe me, we wanted to,” Ezer replied. “But no way. Not if we were going to get a peace treaty.” So I said the obvious: if that’s what was necessary for peace, there was no other choice. We were now well into our final year at Stanford. Our home was in a leafy “student village” off campus, called Escondito, for married students from abroad. Our two-storey flat was one of a row of cabin-like structures: a bit like a kibbutz, only smaller, American-style, a lot more upmarket. It had a fenced-off play area for the children and, in a common room for all the village residents, an upright piano. I found the richness of the academic environment — and the time to explore and savor it — enthralling. I’d chosen my master’s program at Stanford because it offered the chance to learn across a range of different schools and disciplines. The official home for my degree courses was the School of Engineering, in a department called “Engineering-Economic Systems”. Its focus was on
February 9, 2026 at 10:36 PM
gudrunassmann53.bsky.social
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Israels Architektur der Besatzung von Eyal Weizman
Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Sophia Deeg und Tashy Endres
Großformatige Klappenbroschur, 384 Seiten,
Über 100 Abbildungen, davon 32 Seiten Vierfarbillustrationen
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Israels Architektur der Besatzung +++ +++Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Sophia Deeg und Tashy Endres +++ +++Großformatige Klappenbroschur, 384 Seiten, +++Über 100 Abbildungen, davon 32 Seiten Vierfa...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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#epsteinweb #houseoversight026734
comparison with shorter- term efforts to help the world’s poor. But if you care about those who'll live into the 22" century and beyond, then, as economists like Stern and Weizman argue, you deem it worth paying an insurance premium now, to protect those generations against the worst-case scenarios. Above all, it depends on an ethical issue — in optimizing people’s life-chances, should we discriminate on grounds of date of birth? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026734
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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#epsteinweb #houseoversight011660
My main responsibility as commander of the 252" was to implement the withdrawal from the Sinai. Israel had committed itself to bring all of our forces behind the 1967 border within next two years, and, along with Dan, I threw my energy into planning and implementing the terms of the treaty. But especially with Begin soon facing a reelection campaign against Labor, now led by Shimon Peres, he was keen to play to the opponents of any further negotiating concessions. He was positioning himself as the voice of military strength, and painting Peres as someone who would risk our security by going further than the separate peace with Sadat. Begin had no more experience or knowledge of military details than Shimon. But from his days in the pre-state Irgun, he’d been an unapologetic admirer of men of military action. After his victory in the 1977 election, he’d formed a government stocked with some of Israel’s best-known former generals. Not just Ezer Weizman. He’d brought back Moshe Dayan, as foreign minister. And as agriculture minister, the country’s most swashbuckingly self-confident, and controversial, battlefield commander: Arik Sharon. Begin had recently lost both Ezer and Dayan, who accused him of deliberatedly torpedoing chances of building on the peace with Egypt. But Arik was still there, four-square behind a more forceful military posture on Israel’s other fronts. As agriculture minister, he had also been the driving force in a plan for settlement “blocs” designed to encircle the main Arab towns and cities on the West Bank and foreclose any realistic prospect of a Palestinian state. After Begin’s second election victory, in June 1981, some commentators, and many in Labor, insisted that he’d won because of a dramatic surprise air strike, a few weeks before election day, against a French-built nuclear reactor outside Baghdad. I never believed that, in part because I knew from intelligence friends that the attack had been set for earlier, and was put back because
February 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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#epsteinweb #houseoversight011656
a peace treaty. Again, I was watching closely, via American TV. But as the summit was winding down, our phone suddenly rang in Palo Alto. “Ehud, how’s it going? Are you following what’s happening here? What do you think?” I recognized the voice immediately: Ezer Weizman, the former fighter pilot Begin had chosen as his defense minister. I’d known Ezer since the early 1960s, when he’d been commander of the air force and Sayeret Matkal was planning its first operations. Still, even though he had a reputation for batting ideas back and forth outside the bounds of hierarchy or chain of command, I was startled to hear from him. “What do I think about what?” I said. “The solution we’ ve arrived at here. We found there was no way but to give back everything.” The only exception was Taba, a sliver of land where the Negev met the eastern edge of the Sinai, across from the Jordanian town of Aqaba. “Was there no way to convince them, even with some kind of a land swap, to keep the two air bases?” I asked. “Believe me, we wanted to,” Ezer replied. “But no way. Not if we were going to get a peace treaty.” So I said the obvious: if that’s what was necessary for peace, there was no other choice. We were now well into our final year at Stanford. Our home was in a leafy “student village” off campus, called Escondito, for married students from abroad. Our two-storey flat was one of a row of cabin-like structures: a bit like a kibbutz, only smaller, American-style, a lot more upmarket. It had a fenced-off play area for the children and, in a common room for all the village residents, an upright piano. I found the richness of the academic environment — and the time to explore and savor it — enthralling. I’d chosen my master’s program at Stanford because it offered the chance to learn across a range of different schools and disciplines. The official home for my degree courses was the School of Engineering, in a department called “Engineering-Economic Systems”. Its focus was on
February 7, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Choreografen Roni Haver en Guy Weizman ontvangen Jirí Kylián Ring
Choreografen Roni Haver en Guy Weizman ontvangen Jirí Kylián Ring
De choreografen Guy Weizman en Roni Haver, oprichters van Club Guy & Roni in Groningen, hebben tijdens de opening van het Holland Dance Festival in het Haagse Amare Theater de Jirí Kylián Ring ontvangen.
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February 4, 2026 at 10:27 PM
nieuwsnl.bsky.social
Guy Weizman & Roni Haver winnen Jiří Kylián Ring
Guy Weizman & Roni Haver winnen Jiří Kylián Ring
Choreografen Guy Weizman en Roni Haver ontvangen de Jiří Kylián Ring op het Holland Dance Festival in Den Haag voor hun invloedrijke, vernieuwende werk.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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"Guy Weizman & Roni Haver ontvangen Jiří Kylián Ring" via RTL Nieuws
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5563535/guy-weizman-roni-haver-ontvangen-jiri-kylian-ring
#nieuws #rtlnieuws
Guy Weizman & Roni Haver ontvangen Jiří Kylián Ring
Choreografen Guy Weizman en Roni Haver hebben dit jaar de Jiří Kylián Ring ontvangen. Guy en Roni kregen de prijs woensdagavond op de openingsavond van het Holland Dance Festival in Amare in Den Haag. Zij werden onderscheiden vanwege hun cruciale bijdrage aan de dans.
www.rtl.nl
February 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
kolibriliberee.bsky.social
Illana Weizman parle de fragilité goy en écho à la fragilité blanche. Ça pourrait être utiliser pour dire mmmhh attention je suis goy je devrais faire preuve d'humilité... mé non... très soralien ce pseudo retournement du pseudo stigmate on est d'accord.
February 4, 2026 at 7:50 AM
acevedofiore.bsky.social
Me estoy conteniendo de ir a mirar si Eyal Weizman usa IA y cómo. Lo dejo apuntado a ver si me acuerdo de mirarlo mañana.
February 2, 2026 at 10:26 PM
cafetelaviv.bsky.social
🇮🇱

ISRAEL‘s FRIENDSHIP

Chaim Weizman, later the 1st president of Israel, wrote in the German DAS TAGBLATT in 1924
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„If the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland is to have

any meaning at all,

it must be reflected above all in the attitude

that the Jewish people adopt toward those nations
owenjones.bsky.social Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16d
A new study on the Gaza genocide should shock you:
www.owenjones.news/p/dont-forge...
January 31, 2026 at 3:34 PM
europeanreview.bsky.social
In « A Woman in Tangiers », Ines Weizman gives us a sneak peek into her practice of Documentary Architecture: the art of examining archival images for what they tell us about a vanished time or place. It's here for you to read: europeanreviewofbooks.com/a-woman-in-t...
January 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM
eugenemcparland.bsky.social
Donald #Trump just saved Mette Frederiksen from electoral oblivion

✍️ Seb Starcevic and Jakob Weizman

The Danish prime minister was sinking in the polls. America's #Greenland grab changed everything.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Donald Trump just saved Mette Frederiksen from electoral oblivion
The Danish prime minister was sinking in the polls. America’s Greenland grab changed everything.
www.politico.eu
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 AM
peacescientists.bsky.social
Philadelphia: Demand ICE abolished, 10am outside Philadelphia City Hall today Tuesday. At 11.30, walk down Market St, pass bare walls protesting slavery George Washington House, & Weizman Museum, walls supporting apartheid & genocide, to 2nd & Chestnut for noon rally. @afsc-org.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 1:44 PM
tyrage.bsky.social
Noticeably after Iran Bombed "Weizman Institute & Ben Gurion University" Causing Severe Damage to Over 30 Buildings and Irreplaceable Loss of Research.

Those results are likely to be Hidden by Israel & Western Media
January 24, 2026 at 6:01 AM
dearflo.bsky.social
Eyal Weizman knows this terrain well. The Israeli-British architect has spent decades documenting how architecture enforces control - what he calls “spatial violence” - or might prevent future harm.

forensic-architecture.org/about/team
Forensic Architecture
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January 20, 2026 at 2:35 AM
juedischeonline.bsky.social
Während die durchschnittliche Bildschirmzeit eines Erwachsenen bereits geschlagene vier Stunden beträgt, sind es bei einigen Jugendlichen bis zu sieben Stunden am Tag. Autor Jacob Weizman plädiert in seinem Buch "Smartphone aus, Leben an" für eine Trendwende.
Leben statt Bildschirm
Nach seinem Burnout will der Autor Jacob Weizman über die Gefahren übermäßiger Handy-Nutzung aufklären
buff.ly
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
neckarstar.com
Weizi Weizman
January 18, 2026 at 8:37 AM
revbluessusie.bsky.social
I don’t think I can name 10. But…
Rashid Khalidi
Mahmoud Darwish
Edward Said
Eyal Weizman
Suheir Hammad

I’m sure there are more that I have read, but these spring to mind.
January 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network
I often think about this quote in the context of AI-gen images. (From Mengele's Skull: The Advent of Forensic Aesthetics, 2012). I also think a lot how the mass GenAI culture has elevated "good enough" or plausibility over exactitude. And that it's the thrill of a prompted good enough activating it.
“The making of facts,” argue Eyal Weizman and Thomas Keenan, “depends on a delicate aesthetic balance, on new images made possible by new technologies, not only changing in front of our very eyes, but changing our very eyes—affecting the way that we can see and comprehend things.”
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
diagrammes.bsky.social
Notre conversation avec Eyal Weizman, fondateur et directeur de @forensicarchi.bsky.social et professeur de cultures spatiales et visuelles à Goldsmiths, University of London, est désormais disponible en podcast sur vos plateformes d'écoute en version originale :

🎧 écoutez ici : buff.ly/2XuQM9M
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM
diagrammes.bsky.social
The podcast version of our conversation with Eyal Weizman, founder and director of @forensicachi.bsky.social and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London is now available on your favourite platforms.
🎧 Listen here buff.ly/2XuQM9M
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM