{"id":7107,"date":"2026-06-06T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/lebanon-and-israels-perpetual-war-machine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:35:45","slug":"lebanon-and-israels-perpetual-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/lebanon-and-israels-perpetual-war-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon and Israel\u2019s perpetual war machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><main id=\"main-content-area\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Main content area\"><\/p>\n<div class>\n<header><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/the-listening-post\/\"><span>The Listening Post<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/header>\n<p>Why Lebanon remains central to Israel\u2019s multi-front wars. Plus, AfrofeminasGPT, a chatbot designed to promote more ethical AI.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The impasse in the US-Israel war on Iran has turned Lebanon into the conflict\u2019s most active front. Israeli forces are entrenched in the country\u2019s south, a de facto occupation, and have reduced entire neighbourhoods to rubble. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump seeks to preserve delicate negotiations with Iran, but, as Israeli support for the war continues to grow, Lebanon remains a key point of contention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead contributors:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Noe \u2013 Senior fellow, Refugees International<br \/> Maya Rosen \u2013 Editor, Jewish Currents<br \/> Randa Slim \u2013 Middle East programme director, Stimson Centre<\/p>\n<p><strong>On our radar:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, two prominent American commentators, Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, had their UK visas revoked before scheduled speaking events in London. Both are outspoken critics of Israel, its occupation, its wars and the US policy towards it. The action by the UK authorities has called into question the right to free speech and political expression in the country. Meenakshi Ravi reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AfrofeminasGPT: AI through a Black feminist lens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence systems are often trained on data shaped by human bias. As a result, discrimination can spread through the systems that increasingly shape our lives. In Spain, one woman is trying to change that with AfrofeminasGPT \u2013 a chatbot trained on Black feminist and decolonial thought, designed to challenge racism in AI. But can an alternative, built on the same model that it seeks to reform, ever truly be independent?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feature contributor:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mutale Nkonde \u2013 AI Researcher, Cambridge University<br \/> Safiya Noble \u2013 Professor, UCLA<br \/> Antoinette Torres Soler \u2013 Founder, Afrofemin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Listening Post Why Lebanon remains central to Israel\u2019s multi-front wars. Plus, AfrofeminasGPT, a chatbot designed to promote more ethical AI. The impasse in the US-Israel war on Iran has turned Lebanon into the conflict\u2019s most active front. Israeli forces are entrenched in the country\u2019s south, a de facto occupation, and have reduced entire neighbourhoods &#8230; <a title=\"Lebanon and Israel\u2019s perpetual war machine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/lebanon-and-israels-perpetual-war-machine\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lebanon and Israel\u2019s perpetual war machine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}