A veteran State Department official, Stacy Gilbert, resigned from the department this month to protest the administration’s policy and the department’s false claims that Israel isn’t blocking aid. She spoke to Akbar Shahid Ahmed about her resignation: “It drives me...
Nick Kristof makes the mistake of taking Biden at his word: This should be an easy call, and it offers Biden a chance to rescue his failed Gaza policy, for, in this case, Biden and the World Court are fundamentally aligned [bold mine-DL]: They both oppose an all-out...
Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on Sunday in a blaze caused by an Israeli airstrike on a Rafah tent camp full of displaced people. The massacre has been widely condemned: Several countries and global organisations have condemned...
The Biden administration finally released their report on Israeli compliance with international humanitarian law on Friday. Predictably, the administration ignored the mountain of evidence showing Israeli violations of international law in their conduct of the war and...
Garry Kasparov calls for more regime changes in The Wall Street Journal: A war can’t be won by following the rules set in peacetime. The only way to win this long war is through regime change in Moscow and Tehran. Such change will be brought closer by isolating Russia...
The head of the World Food Program, Cindy McCain, acknowledged the famine in Gaza in an interview on Meet the Press: "What I can explain to you is – is that there is famine – full-blown famine – in the north, and it's moving its way south," she said. McCain called for...
Tom Friedman just can’t stop shilling for Mohammed bin Salman: The crown prince wants as peaceful a region as possible, and a Saudi Arabia as secure from Iran as possible, so he can focus on making Saudi Arabia a diversified economic powerhouse. The Saudi crown prince...
The Guardian reports that the Saudis are looking to make a separate deal with the U.S. in which Washington gives them everything they want in exchange for nothing: All three parts of the draft deal involve the US giving vital strategic assistance to Saudi security. In...
Jonathan Katz discusses what Biden told him in a recent interview and compares it with the administration’s record: But his avoidance of specifics spoke to the other side of that coin: the fact that there has been zero evidence of any serious consequences in the seven...
Michael Sobolik wants us to be very afraid of Chinese expansionism: For all of Beijing’s legitimate and long-standing security concerns, however, the sheer scope of China’s expansion is undeniable. Western leaders often deny or ignore it, usually at the behest and...
