The Biden administration “quietly” approved a new transfer of more massive bombs to Israel even as the establishment continues to turn against Israel.

Hamas attack will likely set back Israel-Saudi normalization plan, which was hateful to Palestinians, but could also reduce sympathy for Palestinians and BDS among Democratic voters in the U.S.

Israel is a racist state, but American leaders bit their tongues about that for decades. Now Israel’s move against the judiciary will end the special relationship between the countries and allow the truth to come out, says David Rothkopf.

Liberal Zionists coalesced with rightwingers to celebrate the Israeli president this week, and Joe Biden said he’d meet with Netanyahu, ending tensions. Happy days are here again for the Israel lobby.

Beltway scholar Marc Lynch says even the White House understands Israel practices apartheid, even if it won’t say so publicly, because Palestinian intellectuals have led the way in shifting the foreign policy establishment.

The two-state solution is a mantra inside the Democratic Party and the liberal Establishment but Foreign Affairs dares to ask how many experts think it’s viable and finds that only Israel supporters do so, and as a matter of hope over actual facts on the ground. So daring to ask this verboten question is itself a breakthrough, as Israel lobbyist Robert Satloff indicates. “I am very disappointed that Foreign Affairs is asking this question, which can only contribute to misinformation on an issue that is ultimately all about leadership.”

Religious zealots have established an “outpost” settlement in West Bank lately and Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians protesting the landgrab. The story is getting wide coverage in Palestine but not in the United States, though these lands are the supposed basis of a “Palestinian state.”

Israel suffered a P.R. disaster in the last Gaza attack: western media for once openly questioned the reasoning and morality behind yet another murderous onslaught on an imprisoned population, the fifth in the last 12 years. Even the NYT runs an op-ed saying that “legitimate resistance” to violence is a Palestinian right. Pro-Israel voices in the media are pushing back by saying sharp criticism of Israel is antisemitism.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s courageous encounter with President Biden on a tarmac in Detroit yesterday, demanding action against Israeli war crimes, is already having an effect. Biden, who is on the defensive from the progressive wing of his party, told Netanyahu today that he “expects ‘a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” NBC reports.

Peter Beinart’s call for equality seeks to reform Israel as a Jewish project instead of repudiating its system of racial supremacy, placing Jewish identity above Palestinian rights.