Advertisements Israel is once again bombing Gaza. Once again, the narrative is being willfully distorted, not only by Israel but by its American partners, with a credulous media dutifully following along. In fact, this latest escalation was initiated, intentionally, by Israel; a ceasefire was broken, intentionally, by Israel; and civiliansContinue Reading
Advertisements Writing in the journal Foreign Affairs, four noted, quite mainstream scholars of U.S. policy in the Middle East–Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami–describe “The One-State Reality” that exists in Palestine and Israel today. The piece is meant to promote their book, The One-State Reality: What Is Israel-Palestine? IContinue Reading
Advertisements It was easy to miss, but Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid was in the U.S. last week, visiting with American Jewish leaders and a couple of members of Congress. Lapid is himself not in a great political position right now as the notable plummet Benjamin Netanyahu has taken inContinue Reading
Advertisements The folks over at Responsible Statecraft published an interesting piece last week from a former U.S. analyst and adviser, George Beebe. He made a persuasive case for why it is becoming more and more of a priority for Joe Biden to change his course of eschewing diplomacy and favoringContinue Reading
Advertisements Joe Biden has continued to humiliate himself and the US with his delusional approach to Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right government of Israel. Still, several of Israel’s actions have embarrassed the US and everything it’s doing now, from trying to destroy its own judiciary to a big uptick inContinue Reading
