Today, President-elect Biden named key members of his foreign policy team. First among them is Tony Blinken, a long-time aide, as Secretary of State. During the campaign, Blinken spoke frequently to Israel Lobby groups and reassured them that his boss would be an ardent supporter of Israel. Blinken never offered outreach to the Muslim-American community […]
Netanyahu Offers to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza at His Own Expense
If at first you don’t succeed in ethnically-cleansing Palestinians, try, try again. This time, it appears that Bibi Netanyahu is floating the sham proposal that Israel would pay for the airfare of any Gazan willing to abandon his/her homeland. To show you what a ‘generous offer’ this is, it will even transport Gazans from that […]
After Initially Agreeing to Israeli Conditions to Visit Grandmother, Tlaib Declines Offer Which Would Have Muzzled Her
The Middle East Eye published my new piece about the Netanyahu government’s (willing) ‘cave’ to Donald Trump in banning Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from touring Palestine. But since that piece went live, new developments occurred. Please give is a read and promote it on your social media accounts. Besides the important visits and […]
Pictures Don’t Lie, But Israeli Oligarchs Do
There’s nothing like a picture to convey with graphic, instinctive intensity a political message. Images also can link historical events or eras or political causes in ways that reams of words may fail to do. Two sets of images have moved me in different ways over the past few weeks. The first and most recent […]
