Note: I have taken down the video of Engel's MSNBC program since the embed code doesn't serve the video. But follow the link below to watch it on the MSNBC site. Richard Engel produced several eye-opening stories from a reporting trip to Israel. The most shocking one exposes the machinations (video and article here)behind the Trump administration's … [Read more...]
Friedman’s Follies
U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who earned his position due to saving Donald Trump's ass from bankruptcy a number of times, is Trump's envoy to Settler Israel. The poor soul has gotten himself into hot water recently for visiting a settler NGO and posing with a picture of the city of Jerusalem in which the Haram al Sharif had been obliterated and … [Read more...]
Dead in the Water: Trump Middle East Peace Plan and Pompeo’s Iran Plan B
Trump's new motto should be: if at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again. And since he has no sense of pride about these matters, he'll repeatedly state the same nonsense ad nauseam, even though no one believes him; and he'll repeatedly put forward the same policy notions which he's tried and failed to implement in the past. Exhibits A and B are what I … [Read more...]
Trump Renounces Iran Nuclear Deal
UPDATE: Israel launched yet another attack on purported Iranian military positions inside Syria. At least nine people on the ground were killed. The attack came barely an hour after Pres. Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal. Today, Donald Trump made the momentous decision not just to withdraw, but to vehemently denounce America's greatest foreign policy … [Read more...]
