The ranks of Republican consultants are filled by hoaxsters, swindlers and crooks. In the era of Trump, this phenomenon has become even more pronounced. One of them is Walid Phares, a former ideological commissar for the Lebanese Phalangist militia which warred against the Muslim forces during the Civil War. Phares was the burning spear of […]
Kushner and Netanyahu Conspired With Flynn in Rogue U.S. Foreign Policy Operation
It never ceases to amaze me how intrusive Israel’s penetration of U.S. foreign policy is. Until 2016, we would never have accepted such sabotage of our sovereign affairs. I recently posted about Israeli senior minister, Tzahi Hanegbi’s repeated attempts to offer the Trump campaign Israeli intelligence to ensure his election victory. Earlier, I posted about […]
Adelson Buys U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem*
Sheldon Adelson is onto something. Learning from the Brand Israel model, in which virtually everything is for sale, he’s going to buy himself his own personal U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. This could become a trend. Putin can find himself an oligarch to buy the Russian embassy in Washington. The Kardashians could buy the U.S. embassy […]
Trump Strives to Undo 70 Years of Bipartisan U.S. Mideast Consensus
There are alarming news reports about upcoming Trump cabinet appointments to fill key slots in the national security and foreign policy apparatus. They raise the specter of undoing nearly 70 years of carefully-constructed consensus in U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Presidents hearkening back to Lyndon Johnson have opposed Israeli settlements, and since George HW […]
