Advertisements It is a bizarre sight to see the Biden administration chase Saudi-Israeli normalization like a dog chasing an electric rabbit around a track. But it’s more than just Washington wanting this deal far more than either Israel or Saudi Arabia does. The price tag for the U.S. to getContinue Reading
Advertisements Over the weekend, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column that needs to be circulated to every office in Congress. In it, citing ex-U.S. government officials, including two former ambassadors to Israel, Kristof proposed that the US stop its annual aid package to Israel. Not condition theContinue Reading
Advertisements In a most shameful demonstration yesterday, both houses of Congress, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion, celebrated racism and apartheid with no conscience whatsoever. Only Bernie Sanders from the Senate and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush from the House had the basic decencyContinue Reading
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
Advertisements Ever since it became clear that Benjamin Netanyahu was likely to return as Israel’s prime minister and that he would be bringing in a government that, even for Israel, was radically right wing, Joe Biden and Antony Blinken have consistently been saying that they will react to the government’sContinue Reading
