As Israel’s aggression escalates in the West Bank, its support from Washington remains unwavering.
You would think that the Afghanistan debacle is another blow to neoconservatives: That the school of foreign policy experts inside the Beltway who gave us the Iraq war would be further discredited by the fall of Afghanistan. And you would be wrong.
The New York Times buries the report that Defense Department officials worry that Trump might order American troops to fire weapons at Iran. While Elliott Abrams is in the Mideast, pushing for a “flood” of new sanctions on Iran.
Some Trump officials are already attempting to stop an incoming Biden administration from returning to the nuclear deal.
The danger that Benjamin Netanyahu will provoke Donald Trump into attacking Iran is not over. In fact, the risk of conflict just increased.
Five Democratic presidential candidates criticized Netanyahu for his election tactics, and Israel lobbyists have jumped into the breach to prevent the two countries from dividing politically. Elliott Abrams calls on Democratic Party leaders to break bread with Netanyahu if he wins. And you thought Abrams was a Republican!
Ilhan Omar is accused of antisemitism in fostering a “hoary myth of dual loyalty” to Israel. But Jews from Joe Klein to Eric Alterman to Melissa Weintraub to MJ Rosenberg say that allegiance to Israel is actually an important factor in the support for Israel in the United States, to the point that some support Israel’s interests over America’s.
“Someone put the fix in,” attorney Martin McMahon says of the Justice Department’s decision to represent former Bush aide and convicted liar Elliott Abrams in McMahon’s suit against Abrams and other supporters of the illegal Israeli settlement project, filed on behalf of Palestinians, led by Bassem Tamimi of Nabi Saleh.
Jeffrey Goldberg is very effective: he intimidates people. He is personable and funny and well-connected…