Advertisements As Joe Biden prepares to head to the Middle East, it is important to understand the policy goals he is pursuing on this trip. It is perhaps most important to understand that the long-term agenda here was started not by Biden, but by Donald Trump. That’s whose policies weContinue Reading
Advertisements Anyone who says there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans need only look at the Supreme Court, women’s rights, and LGBTQIA rights to see what nonsense that is. But that’s all domestic policy. On foreign policy it’s a very different story. The differences between Republicans and Democrats in internationalContinue Reading
Advertisements The White House has finally announced the revised dates for Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East. From July 13-16 Biden will make a feckless journey to Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia. Sandwiched in between a trip to Israel that will surely not include any tough questionsContinue Reading
Advertisements With all that is raging in Palestine right now, it’s easy to forget that misguided US foreign policy is not slowing down in its efforts to promote tensions in the Middle East. In what I expect will become a regular appearance at the Mondoweiss web site, I published yesterday myContinue Reading
Advertisements I spoke with Kelley Vlahos and Daniel Larison on their Crashing the War Party podcast. We discussed the Russian war on Ukraine in the context of the Middle East, and particularly the response of American allies in Israel and the Persian Gulf. Listen here.Continue Reading
