Israel’s tightened restrictions on the entry of aid into Gaza since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran have led to shortages of basic necessities and an astronomical rise in prices, raising fears of a return to famine.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin: “Put an end to it as soon as possible because the real danger is that an escalation is just around the corner.”
The superpower has lost control of its foreign policy, writes Oman’s chief diplomat and nuclear deal negotiator. ‘The US administration’s greatest miscalculation was allowing itself to be drawn into this war in the first place. This is not America’s war’
Israel pushed the US into the war, Iran posed no imminent threat, White House gatekeepers kept key officials from Trump, Justice Dept & FBI blocked his investigation of Charlie Kirk assassination, Israel was driving force behind Iraq War & Syrian civil war, Iran war potentially catastrophic for US…
Negotiators say they had reached agreement on key issues despite Trump team’s idiosyncratic approach. Two days later, war began. Gulf diplomat said Witkoff & Kushner acted as “Israeli assets that had conspired to force Trumpinto entering a war from which he is now desperate to get himself out of”
Ex-Green Beret is first Trump administration official to quit over Iran war. He said it was “clear” that the U.S. war on Iran had been started “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
The price tag from Trump’s war on Iran is enough to reconstruct Gaza, provide healthcare to millions in the US, or end homelessness here at home for years.
From Isfahan to Tehran to Khorramabad, Israeli and American strikes have damaged landmarks, including some inscribed by UNESCO.
As the Israel Lobby gets more desperate watching the collapse of American support for their country, they also become more nakedly authoritarian to control U.S. discourse.
One journalist said that “the massacres are multiplying” as IDF bombing kills hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, and US-Israeli strikes kill and wound thousands of Iranians.