Archive for the ‘US-Israel Relations’ Category

Why Biden is holding back heavy bombs from Israel

The heavy bombs that President Biden has held back from sending to Israel have been a major point of controversy in the Gaza war, as a key tool for Israel’s decimation of the territory. Biden has paused a shipment of some 3,500 bombs, which includes heavy 2,000-pound versions along with the lighter 500-pound munitions. Both… […]

AMAL CLOONEY’S SILENCE ON GAZA SHOWS THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM

Amal Clooney, the internationally acclaimed lawyer, is a liberal icon. She and her organization, the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), never shrink from pronouncing their global verdicts on human rights matters. And yet, despite being Lebanese and of Palestinian descent herself, Time magazine’s 2022 Woman of the Year has maintained complete silence on Israel’s continued […]

Israel’s Quest for a Palestinian-free Palestine Continues

MARCH 29, 2024 Source US support enables Netanyahu to ignore international pressure. Philip Giraldi Israel’s plan to expand into an Eretz or “Greater” state incorporating large chunks of its neighbors’ land starts with eliminating the pre-1948 inhabitants of a place once known as Palestine. That nearly all of those who think of themselves as Palestinians […]

ISRAEL’S SHADOW OVER FREE SPEECH: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE TIKTOK BAN BILL

MARCH 28TH, 2024 Source Kit Klarenberg Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist and MintPress News contributor exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. His work has previously appeared in The Cradle, Declassified UK, and Grayzone. Follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg. On March 13, U.S. lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favor of a bill forcing TikTok’s foreign […]

100 DAYS OF WAR: PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE WILL BE NETANYAHU’S DOWNFALL

JANUARY 18TH, 2024 Source Ramzy Baroud Law number one in the ‘law of holes’ is that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law number two, “If you are not digging, you are still in a hole.” These adages sum up Israel’s ongoing political, military and strategic crises, 100 days following the start […]

Israel wants to pull the U.S. into a regional confrontation, but Biden remains reluctant

Earlier this week, U.S. President Joe Biden dispatched one of his top security advisers, the Israeli-American Amos Hochstein, to Israel. According to a U.S. official, the purpose of the trip was to “emphasize that restoring calm along Israel’s northern border is of utmost importance to the United States and it should be a top priority […]

THE REALITY OF GAZA’S FORCED EXODUS: UNVEILING ISRAEL’S SECRET PLAN

Last weekend, Israeli newspaper Local Call leaked an official Israeli government document recommending what Palestinians have been saying Israel is already trying to execute with its war on Gaza — the forcible transfer of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinian population to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office acknowledged the Intelligence Ministry’s proposal exists. Still, it dismissed […]

The Gaza Genocide Continues

Israel is an unrestrained monster that endangers all of us Mainstream media and official government commentary on the violence in Gaza appears to have acquired a certain rhythm to make sure that everyone understands that it is the poor Israelis who are the real victims being assailed by a group called Hamas that is invariably […]

Could the war in Palestine potentially undermine the U.S.-Israeli strategic partnership?

Israel had convinced the U.S. that Palestine issue was no longer an obstacle to normalization. But October 7 shattered Israel’s image of military might, raising doubts about its abilities to protect U.S. strategic interests. Source Views: 0

Trouble ahead for the US and Israel in Gaza

OCT 17, 2023 Source Hasan Illaik The US and Israel have different end goals in bombing Gaza to bits: Tel Aviv wants to ethnically cleanse it of Palestinians and Washington wants to bring back the PA. Both plans, however, are likely to hit an Axis of Resistance wall. As wholly expected, and in line with […]

Like his father before him, Isaac Herzog will spin fictions of Israeli ‘democracy.’ The world no longer believes him.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog will speak to Congress on Wednesday and repeat the same fictions his father, Chaim, uttered before Congress in 1987. But the story his father told will not work again this time. Source Views: 0

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is no less a criminal than Netanyahu

Slated to appear before Congress on Wednesday, Isaac Herzog might look like Israel’s moderate face, but he is no different than Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to supporting Israeli apartheid. Source Views: 0

As the US-Israel relationship is questioned, its ‘shared fictions’ remain strong

Earlier this week, there was a somewhat odd moment of insecurity in the usually harmonious U.S.-Israeli relationship. On Wednesday afternoon, Axios’ Middle East correspondent in Washington felt the need to tweet that a White House National Security Council spokesperson told him that “There is no talk of some kind of formal reassessment’ of relations with […]

Israeli analysts worry the US-Israel ‘special relationship’ is waning as American Jews abandon Israel

The Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli military outfit housed at Tel Aviv University, just delivered its strategic assessment report, and the main takeaway is that Israel’s “special relationship” with the US is in danger. The change is attributed to a generational shift in American politics due to “the influence that the progressive young […]

Zionism Is Genocide

By Stephen Lendman Source In 2018, Hadassah Magazine called Brooklyn, NY “the most Jewish spot on earth.”  In the 1940s, its Jewish population numbered around 900,000. Now it’s around 600,000. On Nakba Day, May 15, at a pro-Palestinian rally in densely Jewish Brooklyn, signs read: “This Jew will not stand by” silently “Another Jew for […]

US/Western Support for Israel Mass Slaughter and Destruction Throughout the Occupied Territories

May 16, 2021 By Stephen Lendman Source Support by the US-dominated West lets apartheid Israel reign terror on Occupied Palestinians with impunity — as it’s done from inception since its 1947-48 war of aggression. An illegitimately created Jewish state in the Arab Middle East remains a prescription for endless conflict. It’s ongoing perpetually by Israel […]

When Will Israel Be Held Accountable for Genocide?

May 16, 2021 By Stephen Lendman Source Apartheid Israel gives new meaning to rogue state ruthlessness. Since terror-bombing and shelling of Gaza communities began a week ago, their intensity increased from one day to the next. Its overnight reign of terror massacred 26 Palestinian civilians in Gaza City, wounding at least 50 others. At least […]

Biden’s Point Man on Iran Says White House Wants to Avoid Clash With Israel Over Return to Iran Deal

US diplomat Rob Malley. Photo: International Peace Institute. The Biden administration’s point man on Iran said Wednesday that the White House wants to avoid the kind of conflict with Israel that occurred during the negotiation of the original 2015 nuclear deal. The clash over the 2015 deal led to a major rift between the Obama […]

Rethinking Israel’s Blank Check in Light of Palestinian Teen’s Death with US Weapon

As Americans become increasingly critical of the Israeli government, foreign assistance is put under a new microscope.by Jessica Buxbaum By Jessica Buxbaum Source JERUSALEM — Last year, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager with an American gun. Now human rights organizations, activists, and politicians are calling on the United States to investigate the killing and stop the […]

President Biden and Israel

US Vice President Joe Biden (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they deliver joint statements at a meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, March 9, 2016. Photo: Reuters / Debbie Hill / Pool / File. With Donald Trump gone from the White House and the shame of impeachment as the Senate’s farewell, his […]

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