Secretary Blinken made a claim yesterday that absolutely no one will believe: “We apply the same standard to everyone,” Blinken said. “And that doesn’t change whether the country in question is an adversary, a competitor, a friend or an ally.” Everyone can see that...
Pursuing Saudi-Israeli Normalization Is a Fool’s Errand
The Biden administration still hasn’t given up on its terrible plan for a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal. The Wall Street Journal reports: The Biden administration is pushing for a long-shot diplomatic deal in coming months that presses Israeli Prime Minister...
Biden’s ‘Moment of Truth’
The president published another strange op-ed tying the wars in Ukraine and Gaza together. His immediate goal was to urge Congress to pass a bill funding more military aid for Ukraine and Israel, but to do that he insists on linking the two wars together as if they...
Lockstep US Support Fuels Conflict
The Iranian retaliation in response to Israel’s April 1 attack on their consulate in Damascus was unprecedented. It was the first direct attack on Israeli territory from Iran, and it was reportedly the largest drone attack on record. The attack was also one of the...
Biden Walks Into Netanyahu’s Trap
The Washington Post reports that Israel didn’t give the U.S. advance warning about the strike on the Iranian consulate last week that killed seven people, including a high-ranking IRGC general: Senior Pentagon officials were frustrated that Israel did not notify the...
3 Months of the Illegal War in Yemen
Almost three months after it began, the illegal U.S. war with the Houthis in Yemen continues. The war has failed to halt attacks on Red Sea shipping. As of last week, the U.S. and its allies have reportedly launched over four hundred strikes on targets in Yemen, but...
The War on Humanitarian Aid Workers
The Israeli military killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK) in three consecutive targeted attacks on their vehicles. The vehicles were marked with the WCK logo, they were traveling on an approved route in a so-called safe zone, and their movements...
Biden Keeps Fueling the Atrocious War in Gaza
There is a man-made famine in Gaza, and the U.S. keeps arming the government that caused it: The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an...
Stop the War on Gaza Now
An official from UNICEF, James Elder, recently surveyed the devastation in Gaza and warned against an assault on Rafah: “A military offensive in Rafah would be utterly catastrophic. The last remaining water points and hospitals [in Gaza] are there and there is nowhere...
The Biden Administration’s Compliance Decision Is a Disgrace
The Biden administration takes a page out of the Mike Pompeo playbook: The U.S. has deemed Israel in compliance with U.S. President Joe Biden's national security memorandum stipulating that recipients of U.S. weapons must be in compliance with international law, nor...