Advertisements [Update: After a fierce outcry, the White House issued a statement saying it would raise the number of refugees it expects to allow to enter the United States in 2021 form the pathetically low number of 15,000. The administration did not say what the new number would be, butContinue Reading
Advertisements The attack on the Capitol on January 6 shook the country to its very core. Despite this, Donald Trump, who incited the attack, will not face no consequences for it. Senate Republicans have already made it clear that they will not convict him on the sole article of impeachmentContinue Reading
Advertisements Published today at Responsible Statecraft is my review of Prof Jerome Slater’s new book, Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020. Slater goes through a huge list of myths that make up so much of the mass understanding of the conflict over Palestine and Israel. JustContinue Reading
Advertisements Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to set off a firestorm every time she goes near the issue of Israel-Palestine. It happened again last week. AOC had agreed to speak at an event hosted by Americans for Peace Now commemorating 25 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. AfterContinue Reading
Netanyahu will certainly do all he can to maintain ties with China. He knows this will be a sore point with the U.S. for the foreseeable future, not only with Trump but with any American administration, Democrat or Republican. But he will try to wait it out until better times allow Israel to move forward with whatever plans they may have with Beijing.Continue Reading
