Jimmy Carter, Anwar El-Sadat, and Menachem Begin, at the signing of the Camp David Accords, 1979, back in the days when Democratic presidents tried to bring peace to the Middle East.
Tag: israel
Israel embracing fascism, despite having plenty of experience with what this means, is at least as disturbing as it is in the United States. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s opposition leader, was set o
Israel cuddling up to Russia continues to go as well as you might expect: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy that he recommends Ukraine take the offer made by R
Jonathan Katz, as far as I’m concerned, expertly sums up the moral calculus: While watching these events unfold from afar, I try to keep two related things in mind. One, as the British journalist Jake Hanrahan astutely tweeted this afternoon, this is “not a football match.” It is not a morality play conducted for our […]
Fighting anti-Semitism absolutely 100% does not mean supporting the actions of the state of Israel. In fact, the most hardcore and committed anti-Zionist activists I’ve known are Jewish. But Net
As you may know, Donald Trump recently appeared in front of the Israeli American Council and said some things. Here’s the Washington Post headline: Starting at around the ninth paragraph of that
The biggest, most beautiful settlement kicking legitimate residents off their land ever. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a new settlement in the Golan Heights named after his “great friend” Donald Trump.Netanyahu unveiled a sign at the proposed site of the settlement on Sunday bearing the name “Trump Heights,” and thanked the US President […]
Over at Politico, Van Jackson provides a fascinating discussion of the possible underlying preferences that drive Kim Jung Un’s recent overtures. Jackson argues that Kim has more concrete goals
Looks like a Trump presidency will actually have a lot in common with Israel: Israeli passengers on a recent Aegean Airlines flight from Greece to Israel forced the cabin crew to remove two Israeli Ar
Support for Israel on the right has many strands that have increasingly come together–U.S. geopolitical interests for some, Israelis seen as an island of whites in a sea of scary Arabs for others. But at its core, right-wing support for Israel comes down to biblical prophecy that at its core is about the elimination of […]
Above: A racist. I guess the debate over whether Benjamin Netanyahu is a racist is over: The prime minister also dismissed allegations that he was a racist following comments about Arab voter turnout
Above: Friend of plutocrats Paul Krugman contextualizes Netanyahu’s troubles by pointing to what he calls “Israel’s Gilded Age,” as the free market devotee has pushed policies