Just one hour before doing so, the Trump Administration informed Congress that it would disregard Congressional oversight and long-standing practice under the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and immediately notify more than $6 billion in arms sales to Israel.
Gaza’s medical disaster continues; Et tu, Human Rights Watch?; a rare admission of killing civilians from Israel; Epstein and Israel; Chuck Schumer vows to give Israel whatever it wants
Nightmares in Gaza, West Bank continue; Ehud Barak’s racist chat with Jeffrey Epstein; Israeli settler violence; Human Rights Watch turns against Palestinian right of return?; more.
Salty water in Gaza; Iran headlines; 1 Palestinian killed in West Bank; Israeli expansionism; settler violence; Epstein and Israel; Trump seeks $1B from Harvard for “antisemitism”; more.
The four sales to Israel, including tactical vehicles and helicopters, were a violation of congressional norms, a senior Democratic official said, adding that Trump refuses to ‘engage Congress on critical questions about the next steps in Gaza’
Rafah crossing; latest headlines on US-Israel-Iran; settlers can’t keep their hands off Palestinian property; Epstein file release has pro-Israel billionaires freaking out
Bloodbath in Gaza; Rafah crossing – too little, too late?; US-Israel-Iran; Israel is all over the Epstein files; more
Will Rafah crossing open to empty Gaza?; headlines on Iran; UNRWA without protections; settlers act as “vigilante militias” in West Bank; apartheid in the open; more arms to Israel with less Congressional oversight; the US occupation of Gaza
What Palestinians don’t need; Israel kills West Bank Palestinian; Netanyahu bad-mouths Biden; Israel boasts organ donation world’s record; Greg Stoker, Anthony Aguilar run for Congress; more.
Israel is readying for talks with the Trump administration over a new 10-year security deal, with the aim of extending US military support even as Israeli leaders prepare for a future without billions of dollars of American cash grants.