Michael Arria talks to Biden biographer Branko Marcetic about how the Gaza genocide will shape the president’s legacy.
The mood in Washington today is similar to 2003 when the neocons of the Bush administration sought to remake the Middle East. This time, a joint vision shared by Israel and the Biden administration seeks to remake the region in the West’s vision.
The Biden administration is rallying around Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as an elected official in Michigan warns Democrats that Kamala Harris is “underwater” in state polls.
As Israel intensified its deadly attacks on Lebanon, the U.S. moved more troops to the Middle East. The move shows Joe Biden’s priority is not to avoid escalation but to ensure that Israel has full impunity.
Israel’s lie over the murder of U.S. activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has been exposed, and in the process, so has Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s double standard on the worth of Palestinian lives.
Joe Biden released a new statement condemning the killing of Aysenur Eygi the day after repeating an Israeli claim that she was killed accidentally by a bullet that had “ricocheted off the ground.”
Support for an arms embargo on Israel among Democratic Party voters has grown enormously due to the Gaza genocide. But will this shift in popular opinion translate into policy change in Washington?
Biden administration officials are refusing to publicly acknowledge that an Israeli soldier killed Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, an American citizen, in the occupied West Bank, saying they would let Israel’s investigation “play out.”
When a foreign government and its citizens kill American nationals, it usually raises media outrage in the U.S. But, Israel’s recent spate of violence against Americans, including the killing of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, has barely received coverage.
After long months and rivers of Palestinian blood in Gaza, the Western world is finally…