Will anti-interventionist ideas get traction in the US political process? Bernie Sanders is pushing them by warning the U.S. against entering the “quagmire” of perpetual war in the Middle East, and citing the terrible consequences of the U.S. overthrowing Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister, more than 60 years ago.

Israelis live in a bubble of impunity and so international pressure must be brought so they pay a price for the occupation, or nothing will change, says Colette Avital, a former Israeli diplomat

Defending her opposition to the Iran Deal, Rep. Carolyn Maloney mistakes Yemen for Sudan and misstates Qatar and the UAE’s nuclear policies.

In the biggest Israel pander speech of this political cycle, Hillary Clinton praises Israel’s “prowess in war” as “inspiring,” and brags that she and Israel were born a few months apart. And says the military option is still on the table for Iran, and that BDS is a threat to the US as much as extremism and Iran.

John Kerry knows that Amedy Coulibaly who killed 4 at a Paris supermarket last January was motivated in part by the Palestinian issue. Elliott Abrams is telling Kerry to STFU

Trump will meet Netanyahu later this year, he said last night. The Israeli Prime Minister “has absolutely no support from President Obama. Absolutely none.”

Paul Singer funds Marco Rubio, neoconservative organizations and an AIPAC spinoff that sends our Congresspeople to Israel. Norman Braman actually brought Marco Rubio to Israel. So why not mention Israel in articles about Rubio’s Jewish donors?

American political class is “traumatized” by Iraq, says a neoconservative who pushed that war, Robert Kagan, in urging the Obama administration to put 50,000 troops into Syria and regime-change Assad

After 9/11, the neocons sought to conflate US and Israeli interests in a global war on terror. They have started up the same talking point again, as Chuck Schumer says– mindlessly– the terror in Paris could have been stopped if world had stood by Israel.

ThinkProgress irresponsibly blames the settlements on the religious right, thereby exonerating the Democratic Party, which has been a strong and vocal a supporter of the settlements going back to Bill Clinton