A week culminating with the massacre of 274 Palestinians in Gaza provided further evidence – though none is needed — that anti-Palestinian bias is simply a rule of American politics, and today maybe the leading rule.
There are dangerous signs Israel intends to escalate attacks on Lebanon and raise the stakes with Hezbollah. If it does, the risk of a regional war grows enormously. The only way out is to end the fighting in Gaza.
While the details of Joe Biden’s proposal for a Gaza ceasefire remain vague it does make one outcome of the fighting clear: Israel and the United States lost.
Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court and the Biden administration lifted them. Now, the White House will collaborate with a bunch of Republicans to reinstate them, because the ICC is going after Israel.
Nine of Biden’s top 25 donors are staunch supporters of Israel. While a clutch of billionaires is working behind the scenes to “help win the war” of public opinion for Israel, the Washington Post reports.
The Biden administration refuses to abandon the farcical cornerstone of its policy in the Middle East: a normalization deal between the Saudis and Israel.
So long, David Trone. The billionaire owner of Total Wine, staunch BDS opponent, and notable AIPAC donor lost the Maryland Democratic primary for Senate to Angela Alsobrooks by double digits.
Congressional aides say that the Biden administration will send Israel another $1 billion in weapons and ammunition.
Biden threatened Israel with pulling military aid if it invades Rafah, but Israel is attacking anyway. It won’t face consequences so long as Biden remains vague on what amounts to sufficient grounds for suspending military aid.