Advertisements After Israel broke confidence by reporting secret talks with the Libyan foreign minister, the repercussions are still being felt in that troubled and divided country. While Israel acted shamefully, the lion’s share of the blame, as usual, belongs to the Biden administration. This piece at Mondoweiss looks at the contextContinue Reading
Advertisements Nicholas Kristof might have called for ending US military aid to Israel, but he tempered the call by saying that such a cut should not ignore Israel’s “legitimate security concerns.” We keep hearing about those concerns, and certainly there are some. But do they justify everything Israel and theContinue Reading
Advertisements Joe Biden’s policy failures in the Middle East are not limited to Palestine and Israel. He has arguably been even worse on Iran, where he has intentionally missed opportunities to restore some sanity to U.S. policy in the wake of Donald Trump’s madness. Instead, he has doubled down onContinue Reading
Advertisements The denial of the Nakba has become a virtual sine qua non for pro-Israel advocacy and propaganda. It is not necessary for Zionism; acknowledging the genocide of native people in the Western hemisphere has not led to the destruction of the US, Canada, or Australia. But because of theContinue Reading
Advertisements If one thing has characterized the Biden administration’s policy toward Palestine and Israel, it has been the minimal departure from the policies of Donald Trump. Outside of partially restoring some of the paltry aid we give the Palestinians, precious little has changed materially, despite some threadbare rhetoric to theContinue Reading
