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...
Walter Russell Mead ends his latest column with some random assertions, mindless talking points, and a call for violence: Crows cluster where scarecrows fail. If Team Biden wants a world with fewer challenges to the American order, it must restore respect for American...
Antony Blinken was asked yesterday at a State Department press briefing if he agreed with the EU’s Josep Borrell that Israel was using starvation as a weapon in Gaza, and he gave this answer: What we’ve seen in terms of food as well as other supplies, going to your –...
The Biden administration wants you to know that you shouldn’t take any of the president’s warnings to Israel seriously: The White House denied on Tuesday that President Biden had set any “red lines” for Israel in its campaign against Hamas in Gaza but warned again...
The president pretends that his administration is working overtime to save lives in Gaza: The United States is committed to pulling out every stop to get more aid to those in Gaza who desperately need it. We won't stand by. We won't let up. None of this is true, but...
The delivery of U.S.-made weapons to Israel over the last five months has been massive: The United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began Oct. 7, amounting to thousands of...
The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues There is no question that the Israeli government is responsible for these deaths. It is beyond shameful that the US would block a statement that says so, but it is consistent with the administration’s indefensible...
The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues: The U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri charges Israel with the deliberate starvation of the Palestinians of Gaza: “There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid...
The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues: The U.S. and the United Kingdom conducted a series of strikes at 18 Houthi targets at eight different locations inside Yemen Saturday, part of a continuing effort to fight back against the Iran-backed group that...
The U.S. used its veto at the UN Security Council for the third time in this war to block a call for an immediate ceasefire: The U.S. vetoed an Algerian proposal at the United Nations Security Council that called for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, saying that a...
