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
Advertisements Joe Biden finally met with Benjamin Netanyahu. While the meeting was not in Washington but on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, it was nonetheless a positive step for Netanyahu, who got the long-sought meeting without in any way diminishing either his assault on the Israeli judiciary (whichContinue 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 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
Advertisements In my latest piece for Mondoweiss, I look at the confluence of recent events at the United Nations and in the discourse around Israel and Palestine on Capitol Hill. Specifically, the speech of Yair Lapid at the UN General Assembly, supported explicitly by US President Joe Biden, and the horrificContinue Reading
