The Terrorists Won: 11 September Turns 25
2026-09-10
Advertisements 25 years ago, George W. Bush said “Don’t let the terrorists win.” He, and his successors, then proceeded to do just that. Read more at The Battleground Continue Reading
Democracy Denied: How the World Leaves Palestine Behind
2026-06-04
Advertisements The world’s refusal to even consider allowing Palestinians to decide their own future is not a product of the October 7 attacks. The democracy exception for Palestine has been a constant feature of Mideast “diplomacy.” Read more at The Battleground Continue Reading
Biden’s Mideast policy implodes
2023-11-01
Advertisements Joe Biden entered office planning to ignore the Palestinians. Many observers, across the political spectrum, warned him that was foolhardy. Eventually, that policy would fail. It has, obviously, and the result is the bloodiest period in the history of this conflict. Biden’s entire agenda for the region has collapsed.Continue Reading
How Democrats learned to defend Israel’s ethnocracy
2023-09-11
Advertisements For a very long time, the United States worked diligently to stay away from the tense debate over Israel’s ability to be both a Jewish and democratic state. Even as Palestinians cried out about their lack of freedom and basic rights and their lives proved that a state havingContinue Reading
As the US-Israel relationship is questioned, its ‘shared fictions’ remain strong
2023-07-19
Advertisements Tom Friedman is back, at least for a minute. He stirred up a bit of a fuss last week when he wrote that the US was beginning a “reassessment” of its relationship with Israel due to the current government’s excesses. Well, it wasn’t necessarily so, but the fact thatContinue Reading