Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

With global attention fixed on the escalating U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Israel has imposed a total military closure on the occupied West Bank — and settlers are seizing the moment. As Oren Ziv (Local Call) and Basel Adra reported, Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided dozens of villages in the past week, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers.

Lior Sternfeld discussed what’s next for Iran after the U.S.-Israeli assasination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. His death opens the door to a range of possibilities — but a democratic transition seems the least likely of all.

For the first time since the Suez Crisis of 1956, Meron Rapoport (Local Call editor) argued, Israel is fighting with a Western hegemon for regime change in its war with Iran. Yet despite U.S.-Israeli military superiority, the political repercussions are far from certain: just as Israel’s last war fought alongside an imperial power backfired, this one could, too.

And Dana Mills spoke with Dr. Dana Amir, a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, and poet, about how permanent war shapes the Israeli psyche (originally published on Local Call). From October 7 to Iran, Amir argued, the Israeli government has used successive states of emergency to render individual thinking redundant.

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