The Trump administration violated the Iran Deal, and Joe Biden repeatedly said he wanted to rejoin it if he ended up becoming president. But now that Biden is president, things aren’t so clear.

Dropping bombs on the Middle East is a rite of passage for modern Presidents and last week Joe Biden officially joined the club.

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A right-wing lawyer with connections to the Israeli government is trying to reveal the names of everyone who attended the 2018 annual National Students for Justice in Palestine conference.

Gitmo is Still Open Back in 2008, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was rightly regarded…

Netanyahu is running for reelection by saying there is “one state” between the river and the sea in which Jews and Arabs work together. He’s solidifying the apartheid reality under the nose of the Biden administration, which says pointedly that it won’t be undertaking negotiations because Israeli Palestinian trust is at a “nadir”.

Ted Cruz: “Do you agree that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and do you commit that the United States will keep our the embassy there?”
Biden nominee for sec’y of state Tony Blinken: “Yes and Yes.”

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Here is what the Democratic Party’s Israel lobby sees as Israel/Palestine policy under a Biden administration.

This year has been a slog, but in the spirit of the holiday season, here are some of the victories of 2020.