For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed […]
How the U.S. Shattered the Middle East…
emen is a nightmare, a catastrophe, a mess—and the United States is highly complicit in the whole disaster. Refueling Saudi aircraft in-flight, providing targeting intelligence to the kingdom and selling the requisite bombs that have been dropped for years now on Yemeni civilians places the 100,000-plus deaths, millions of refugees, and (still) starving children squarely […]
Netanyahu Tells Voters: If you don’t vote Likud, Arabs Will ‘Annihilate Us All’…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming under fire again for anti-Arab comments made by his campaign, this time for a message on his official Facebook page telling voters “Arabs want to annihilate us all – women, children and men.” Israeli media reported that upon accessing Netanyahu’s official page, viewers are greeted with an automated […]
In Election Pitch, Netanyahu Vows to Annex the West Bank’s Jordan Valley…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Tuesday to quickly apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley if he is able to scrap together a new government after national elections next week. In a campaign speech billed by his Likud party as a “dramatic announcement,” Netanyahu also repeated his vow from before elections in April to extend […]
For Once, Sheldon Adelson Needs Donald Trump More Than Trump Needs Adelson…
Today in an unprecedented show of autonomy, Donald Trump fired the firebreathing national security adviser John Bolton. Bolton was gifted to the Trump administration in 2018 by Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s biggest donor, and Trump duly ended the Iran deal once Bolton came aboard. Now Trump has fired Bolton, thereby signalling that he is open to […]
Barring Tlaib and Omar, Israel Inexcusably Abandons the Diplomatic Battlefield…
There’s no doubt that the planned visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank by US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would have presented extraordinary diplomatic and, potentially, security challenges to Israel. The two lawmakers are prominent supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), ostensibly dedicated to pressuring Israel to change its policies […]
Netanyahu: ‘Israeli law prohibits the entry into Israel of those who call for and work to impose boycotts on Israel’…
Rep Ilhan Omar’s Statement on Denial of Entry to Occupied Palestine…
Distorting the Definition of Antisemitism to Shield Israel from All Criticism…
There is a growing tendency among both Jews and non-Jews to label those with whom they have profound political differences, especially on the subject of Israel-Palestine, as antisemitic. The accusation is a severe one: in most countries in the West, antisemitism is considered a taboo, and the identification of a person or organization with antisemitism […]
Five Years On, a Reporter from Gaza Remembers the 2014 War…
It’s been five years since the last war in Gaza, yet at times I feel like it was yesterday. I walk around with memories on loop inside my head. Sharp sounds give me flashbacks. Car backfires, popped tires, drones overhead, surged outlets all make me shudder. My first experience of war-like conditions was in 2004 […]
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