With an ill-timed trip, US Democrats signal to Israel it can act with impunity
In Haaretz today, we find an article headlined, in part, with a quote from an anonymous “leading official in a major liberal pro-Israel organization” calling pro-Palestinian objections to the recent...
View ArticleInterview: Parallax Views
I did a wide-ranging interview with J.G. Michael for his podcast, Parallax Views, this week. Many different aspects of Palestine, Israel, and, particularly, U.S. policy were covered. You can listen to...
View ArticleBlinken tells J Street Biden will change nothing
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the keynote speaker at last week’s J Street conference. In what was undoubtedly the low point of the entire event, Blinken not only got a standing ovation as he...
View ArticleIn latest visit Blinken offers nothing to Palestinians
With the headlines currently abuzz about popping balloons, it’s worth looking at what the Biden administration means when it talks about diplomacy. It was on display this week in Israel and the West...
View Article89 Orgs Condemn Vote to Remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from HFAC
ReThinking Foreign Policy is one of 89 organizations that issued a joint statement in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar and condemning the party line House vote to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs...
View ArticleBiden has the tools to deter Netanyahu, he just needs to use them
In a recent op-ed in Ha’aretz, former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas wrote, “It is not the U.S.’ responsibility, moral duty, or place to alter the authoritarian trajectory of Israel. But it is equally...
View ArticleAs the US-Israel relationship is questioned, its ‘shared fictions’ remain strong
Tom Friedman is back, at least for a minute. He stirred up a bit of a fuss last week when he wrote that the US was beginning a “reassessment” of its relationship with Israel due to the current...
View Article2023: A turning point for Palestine in global politics
2023 has been an eventful year in Palestine. Unfortunately, “eventful in Palestine” generally means bloody, and there is no doubt that this has been a particularly bloody year. Yet there has been more...
View ArticleIsrael wants to pull the U.S. into a regional confrontation, but Biden...
One of the basics of the U.S.-Israel relationship has been Israel always pushing the envelope and making sure they are going as far as they can without risking their relationship with their superpower...
View ArticleInterview: Background Briefing on the latest diplomacy in Gaza
I spoke with Ian Masters on his show Background Briefing on the latest diplomatic efforts the US was pursuing about Gaza. Listen here.
View ArticleBiden or not, U.S. policy on Palestine stays the same
Realistic contenders to replace Biden won’t be better on Palestine than Genocide Joe. And when it comes to Dems and Republicans, you pick your poison, but there’s no healthy choice. Read more at...
View ArticlePromising signs that Palestine advocacy is building political power in...
The Israel lobby built its strength on the fact that its opposition was politically weak. Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro and the massive cost it took to defeat Jamaal Bowman and...
View ArticleThe genocide in Gaza is as American as it is Israeli. The U.S. won’t stop it.
Building on an argument made by my colleague and former Israeli diplomat Daniel Levy, this piece explains the forces powering the US’ full partnership in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its expansion...
View ArticleThe genocide in Gaza is as American as it is Israeli. The U.S. won’t stop it.
The desire for a ceasefire in the United States, certainly among Democrat voters, is clear. Yet, as the slaughter in Gaza enters its twelfth month, why does the US continue to act the way it does?...
View ArticleIsrael’s lie about a U.S. activist’s murder has exposed the Biden-Harris...
Israel’s lie over the murder of U.S. activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has been exposed, and in the process, so has Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s double standard on the worth of Palestinian lives. Read more...
View ArticleJimmy Carter’s Palestine legacy
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, is a man whose legacy will forever be inextricably linked to Israel and Palestine. Yet that legacy will be built as much on myth...
View ArticleSlight rift between Trump and Netanyahu leaves opening for Arab states to...
While Israel and the United States are working together on a plan for Gaza, they have slightly different interests. This gap is opening space for regional Arab leaders to propose an alternative vision...
View Article‘We’re not an agent of Israel’: Unpacking the growing daylight between the...
The Trump administration’s direct negotiations with Hamas have broken precedent and angered Israel. Envoy Adam Boehler defended them to CNN saying the U.S. is “not an agent of Israel,” but how much...
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