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Readers Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; Before Zohran, There Was Comrade La Guardia; Trump Shames America, Nuclear Options, Negotiation, Netanyahu; Path to Pushing MAGA out of Power; World Council of Churches: Call to End Apartheid, Occupation; more;

Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed, your child hit by shrapnel, because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair, it is unfair to anyone, anywhere.

Interview with James M. Acton, the chair and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Trump is the most pliable. But Netanyahu plays them all like cheap violins, despite being wrong about every important matter of the last 25 years.

The pro-Israel lobbying group has sent a flurry of communications to members of Congress, citing specific language for them to parrot in support of Israel’s strikes on Iran.

Readers Comments: Juneteenth Freedom Day; No to U.S. War with Iran; Real Democratic Civil War; Future of Left Jewish Identity; Suzanne Crowell - Presente; Hotline When People Have Immigration-Related Court Hearing; Live-stream Socialism Conference

Faced with the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and the systematic deprivation of Palestinians’ right to health, Israel’s medical establishment has disregarded the field’s most basic ethical principles.

Under any interpretation, Israel's attack is clearly illegal under international law, not that anyone seems to care anymore. Israel's attack on Iran is best understood as a continuation of its attempt to remake the Middle East through force.

Most of the world agrees that apartheid inside a country’s borders is the epitome of injustice. Why, then, are we so ready to accept a global version of it?

Basically, U.S. policy in the Middle East is a stepchild of Israeli policy, and Netanyahu keeps playing Trump for a fool (which is not hard). Netanyahu played the same games when Democrats were in power, with minor limits.