Joe Biden repeatedly said he wanted to rejoin the Iran Deal if he became president. But now that he’s president, things aren’t so clear.
The Trump administration violated the Iran Deal, and Joe Biden repeatedly said he wanted to rejoin it if he ended up becoming president. But now that Biden is president, things aren’t so clear.
Joe Biden and his associates appear demonstrably incapable of exchanging the history that they know for a history on which our future may well depend. As a result, they will cling to an increasingly irrelevant past. Under the guise of correcting Trump’s failures, they will perpetuate their own.
Palestinian-Americans were turned back from an Israeli vaccination clinic at a checkpoint outside Ramallah because they held Palestinian ID cards, and the U.S. Embassy won’t help them. “It would be different if all U.S. citizens here were being treated the same,” Wafaa Jallaq tells Mondoweiss. “But when Israel, or being Israeli, is basically the distinction between who gets vaccinated and who doesn’t, that’s when it becomes frustrating. The U.S. has let go of its responsibility towards its citizens in the West Bank.”
Dropping bombs on the Middle East is a rite of passage for modern Presidents and last week Joe Biden officially joined the club.
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A right-wing lawyer with connections to the Israeli government is trying to reveal the names of everyone who attended the 2018 annual National Students for Justice in Palestine conference.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells CNN the Biden administration embraces Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and refuses to commit to the idea of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.
By attempting to scuttle international judicial efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions, the Biden administration is continuing a bipartisan pattern that stretches back at least to the George W. Bush administration.
If Palestinian anti-apartheid activist Issa Amro was one of the Russian or Chinese human rights defenders being accused of bogus charges and unfairly convicted by a military court, we would have certainly heard his name on the Senate floor or during a White House press briefing, says Jamil Dakwar.