The one thing you can say about Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Palestine this week is that the Israeli government and its lobby are over the moon.
Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia will attempt to sweep Shireen Abu Akleh and Jamal Khashoggi under the rug.
I am such an optimist: for the last year I have been saying that Unilever won’t dare overrule the decision by its subsidiary, Ben & Jerry’s, to stop selling ice cream in the occupied territories. No, progressives are winning this debate. And boy was I wrong!
The systematic murder of Palestinians by Israel is quite acceptable – if it’s not actual policy. And what this says about Israel, as a state, is clear.
Will Israel’s abdication of responsibility precipitate a crisis in the American relationship to Israel?