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.
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.
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.
The truth is that a number of Democratic members of Congress, whom millions of people see as leading the resistance, actually ally with Trump on foreign policy.
Trump's plan to relocate two million Palestinians ensnares the leaders of all Middle Eastern countries, not just Egypt and Jordan, in a dilemma fraught with threats. In doing so, he fostered a new sense of Arab unity
The Biden administration is taking action in the West Bank, but it may be too late.
Climate action is breaking out all over
Benjamin Netanyahu's eye-rolling video, in which he accused the Americans of holding up an arms shipment and yet again evoked Winston Churchill, is him playing politics – it's the only thing he knows how to do.
An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.
Schumer was giving voice to what most Democratic officeholders believed but were afraid to say, and he clearly had the blessing of President Biden to go ahead and make that speech. It also showed the divide between Israeli Jews and diaspora Jews.
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