Rhode Island activists blockade Raytheon weapons facility to protest arm sales to Israel, Saudi Arabia

The Biden administration wants $1 billion to restock Israel’s Iron Dome system. Will Congress give him what he wants?

Members of Congress are working on the shameful discrepancy in aid that the US gives Israel over the Palestinians by fighting for Palestinians to get nothing and Israel to get more.

Israel is reportedly asking the United States for an additional $1 billion in military aid so they can replenish their Iron Dome missile defense system.

Israel is reportedly about to ask for another $1 billion in military aid from the Biden administration to replenish Iron Dome batteries.

Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh writes from Gaza, “U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah was not welcome by the average Palestinian citizen in Gaza. What we needed from our leadership was a wholehearted demand to immediately end U.S. imperialism, but instead we got handshakes that amounted to little more than talks between the landlords and the thieves.”

Rep. Cori Bush’s statements in support of Palestinians during the most recent uprising reflect how the US discussion of Israel-Palestine is increasingly impacted by the anti-racism and anti-colonialism of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The United States has played a vital role in the decades-long catastrophe that has engulfed Palestine. U.S. leaders must now confront their country’s and, in many cases, their own personal complicity in this catastrophe.

There is a long history of the U.S. opposing ceasefires when Israel wants to continue bombing.

For decades Israel has been able to confiscate homes, occupy land, and kill civilians. There’s never been much mainstream debate about this in the United States, the country that finances Israel’s atrocities with billions of dollars in taxpayer money. That has now changed.