Advertisements It is hard to fathom anyone but the woefully uninformed and the willfully ignorant still believing this assault on Gaza was a war on Hamas when it has plainly been Israel using the horrific events of October 7 as an excuse to launch a war against the Palestinian civilianContinue Reading
Advertisements It was easy to miss, but Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid was in the U.S. last week, visiting with American Jewish leaders and a couple of members of Congress. Lapid is himself not in a great political position right now as the notable plummet Benjamin Netanyahu has taken inContinue 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
Advertisements Here we go again, folks. Israelis are going back to the polls. It’s actually amazing that the cobbled together Bennett-Lapid coalition gave them this long a break. In my latest piece for Medium, I break down what’s just happened, with a few observations, and answer some questions that mightContinue Reading
Advertisements There will be no policy changes from this new Israeli government regarding the Palestinians or Iran. But for the Biden administration and activists in the US, there will be some new twists. Joe Biden will have every excuse he needs to avoid pressing Israel for concessions because the newContinue Reading
