The “ultra-apartheid” convergence: Regional escalation and the engineered asphyxiation of Palestine

The contemporary transformation of the Gaza Strip—from a vibrant Mediterranean economic hub to a landscape of systemic structural erasure—represents a phenomenon far more complex than the collateral effects of a conventional military campaign. It serves as the material evidence of what Dan Steinbock (2025) characterises as “The Fall of Israel”: a systemic, multi-dimensional degradation of the state’s moral, political and economic frameworks.  As these internal structures undergo a period of intense corrosion under a messianic-autocratic shift, the Palestinian population is being subjected to a state of “engineered asphyxiation”—a process of systematic economic deprivation now exacerbated by the direct regional confrontation involving Iran and the strategic alignment of the US. Steinbock’s analysis suggests that the Zionist project is experiencing a profound […]