Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

Last week in Gaza, more than 37,000 high school students sat for their final exams, known in Arabic as Tawjihi. But as Ruwaida Amer reported, after the exams were moved online, unreliable internet, electricity outages, and relentless Israeli attacks made completing them a nearly impossible task.

While sanctions targeting settlers and West Bank organizations continue to make headlines, Israel has grown ever more reliant on bond sales to finance its perpetual war. Aharon Porath wrote about a growing divestment campaign within pension funds and investment committees that could shake Israel’s economic foundations (originally published on Local Call).

Elia Ayoub argued that Lebanon’s latest agreement with Israel confirms what Hezbollah has long warned: The new 14-point deal, signed just over a week ago, omits any commitment to Israeli withdrawal,” leaving Lebanon’s sovereignty effectively contingent on Donald Trump’s United States.

More than two and a half years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, many see Hebrew as inseparable from Zionism and state violence. Raphael Mimoun argued that the language long predates the Zionist movement, and that a growing movement of Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews are attempting to reclaim it from the nationalist project that came to dominate it.

And as Ori Goldberg wrote, while Iran and the United States pursue diplomacy, Israel remains committed to perpetual war. Sidelined from discussions over the region’s future, Netanyahu is telling Israelis they’ll have to go it alone — and they all nod in agreement.

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