Bribes and Blackmail: The Twin Pillars of Israeli Statecraft | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

This episode kicks off with a discussion about how companies are profiteering from the Gaza genocide. We examine the proposed Gaza “Board of Peace” and International Stabilisation Force, revealing how these initiatives risk becoming a façade for a new phase of foreign control under a US-led security regime.

Against this backdrop, we spotlight how blackmail and bribery have become central tools of Israeli statecraft — from NATO’s suspension of Israel’s largest weapons firm over a bribery scandal to explosive claims that the UK threatened the ICC over Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Plus: the co-optation of Christian leaders in the service of Israel, suppression of pro-Palestinian dissent, and the political exploitation of anti-Semitism