Israel is a chronic liability that squanders billions of American dollars, drags the US into wars and whose genocidal treatment of the Palestinians is destroying America’s moral pretensions in most of the world. Once this is understood, support for Israel will collapse, and voters may apply enough pressure to reorient U.S. policy in line with genuine national interests.
Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?
Gazans freezing, homeless, sexually assaulted, gaslit; West Bankers face down Israeli and Palestinian Authority forces; a BDS win.
Documenting how Israel and its lobby have driven US policies from Truman through Biden
A U.S. nonprofit has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for an Israeli sniper unit for the stated purpose of buying scopes, silencers, and other equipment. The unit has since been implicated in possible war crimes and killing over 100 people in Gaza and has been tied to the killing of four unarmed Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
David Rovics recounts being censored on the world’s largest music streaming service… “My most popular new album, the one that sought to document the first three months of Israel’s ongoing Palestinian holocaust, is gone – erased, disappeared, unmentioned in end-of-the-year statistical wrap-ups as if it never existed.”
Israeli army sets fire to north Gaza’s last functioning hospital; Biden admin’s Jack Lew got US-funded famine identification org to rescind its famine announcement for Gaza; Israel will withdraw from Lebanon when it’s good and ready
More than 57 years after the attack, the FOIA lawsuit revealed new details and, more importantly, it made it clear that the US government is still refusing to release hundreds of pages of documents concerning the assault.
Palestinian children and journalists continue to pay the highest price of war; Israel slacks off on war protocols to allow rampant killing of civilians in Gaza; violence continues in West Bank; Israel targets Yemen
Israel’s war on Gaza continues to be deadly for children; US diplomat says there’s no famine in northern Gaza because it’s been ethnically cleansed; NYT: yes, Israel enables looting; Israel builds ‘beachfront retreat’ for soldiers committing genocide in Gaza; 10 killed in West Bank; EU leaders know about Israel’s war crimes.