Middle East states have leverage on Jared Kushner, Trump’s most incompetent, greedy princeling and key ‘architect’ of his Mideast strategy. How badly compromised is he?…
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How Tulsi Gabbard unites bloodstained Hindu nationalists, the genocidal Assad and the U.S. far right
The congresswoman seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination suffers from a severe case of selective moral outrage. Her love for massacre-complicit Modi is just as…
Trump pulling the U.S. out of NATO increases Israel’s vulnerability just when threats to its security are intensifying. Netanyahu must use all his influence to…
The populist wave has crested for now, but if the U.S. and European economies sink this year or next, it will be back, stronger than…
Ankara’s forces – riven by infighting, jihadist proxies and post-coup purges – will always prioritize fighting anti-ISIS Kurdish forces, and not Islamic State itself. America…
QAnon – vengeful, sprawling, non-sequential, self-referential, uncommitted to democratic process and full of hot air – is the perfect conspiracy theory for the Trump era.…
By applauding Trump gifting northern Syria to a theocratic, tyrannical Erdogan, fatuous self-styled ‘anti-imperialists’ are complicit in the torture, abductions, killings and ethnic cleansing of…
Trump is retreating from Syria – and from his pro-Israel Jewish conservative voters. If that decision is a harbinger of other strategic moves distancing him…
The decision will force Israel to reduce its intoxication with power. Relying exclusively on military might has never worked in the long run Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Exactly when fringe, anti-Semitic freaks have become mainstream political leaders, anti-racist watchdogs mandated to confront hate, like Amnesty and the ADL, have shown they can’t…
ISIS, Erdogan, Iran, Putin and Assad. What’s wrong with the list of big winners from Trump’s immoral, incompetent retreat from Syria? How much worse can…
U.S. president claims a hollow victory over one of his most potent critics – principled American conservatism Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Their romance was made in heaven but now they’re living in the past – and on borrowed time Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The Trump vs Imran Khan Twitter war was an opening volley in a far more dangerous conflict. As America cuts aid, Pakistan is finding new…
I’m going to be thinking a lot about war heroes this Thanksgiving week – all the people who, in ways we may never know, often…
From McCain to McRaven, the U.S. President has shown the world that decades of decorated service mean nothing Source: https://www.haaretz.com
For Muslim women like me, who escaped countries where Islam defined, demeaned and suffocated our lives, to live in America, it was jolting hearing the…
The left in the West has made Israel-hatred legitimate. This isn’t a climate created by Trump, but one he vehemently opposes Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Trump’s Mideast team, unlike the rest of his administration, has been transparent and consistent: Palestinians have no right to a state; Israel doesn’t need to…