There is a long history of the U.S. opposing ceasefires when Israel wants to continue bombing.
As the death toll rises in Gaza, the Biden administration is blocking the release of a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a ceasefire.
Israelis join in times of wars like in no other times. Well, the Jewish Israeli ones mostly join under their Zionism, and Palestinians who protest in solidarity with their Palestinian brethren, are seen as traitors. So the war situation creates a necessary societal rift, by which the Zionist vein is strengthened. This is what a right-wing leader needs.
Why does Biden exasperate the left by defending Israel’s strikes on apartment houses in Gaza? Because he is dependent on the Israel lobby for Democratic Party campaign support. As Pew’s latest survey shows, Jews care a lot about Israel, Jews are overwhelmingly Democrats, and Jews make more money than other Americans on average.
“If anything, Biden is simply picking up where Trump left off when it comes to Israel.”
An AIPAC letter aimed at keeping Biden from returning to the Iran deal got only 43 signatures, which shows that Biden has the political capital he needs to reenter the deal. But he has shown a timidity, born of attacks by the rightwing Israel lobby, and won’t even lift sanctions for humanitarian purposes related to the pandemic, as he urged Donald Trump to do a year ago.
Gallup’s latest annual poll of US attitudes on Israel and Palestine shows Israel has a favorable image but there are signs that support for Palestine is beginning to increase. In 2020, the Palestinian Authority had a favorability rating of just 21%. That jumped to 30% this year.
Joe Biden is dithering on his promise to return to the Iran deal, under pressure from Bob Menendez and other Democrats beholden to the Israel lobby. The lobby’s ability to influence the White House’s definition of the American interest in the Middle East in Israel’s favor is a longstanding tradition, and it’s just a pity the media continually fall for it.
Senators Rob Portman and Ben Cardin are circulating a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to denounce the ICC’s decision it has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The New York Times says the American missile strike in Syria targets a “network of militias that are backed by Iran and committed to subverting the interests of the United States and its allies.” What in hell does that mean?