The Bible-thumping, messianic rhetoric of Israeli and American politicians reveals a dangerous irony: they don’t oppose theocracy (unless it’s the Islamic kind) and cloak their own fanaticism in terms like ‘Judeo-Christian values’ and ‘the West’
Key conservative figures, including some of Trump’s allies, question the Israeli strikes and warn against a US war with Iran.
Trump says “no enrichment”—but his Iran deal quietly allows it. Mixed signals or strategy? The truth may shape war, peace, and U.S. politics.
“We can blow up whatever we want, but nobody getting killed,” Trump said, indicating another split between the American president and the Israeli prime minister.
Professor John Mearsheimer and Judge Andrew Napolitano critique the recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump about Gaza and Iran, and discuss potentially calamitous results of Netanyahu’s Iran policies. From the April 10th “judging Freedom” program.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Araqchi made the remarks after U.S. President Trump restored his ‘maximum pressure’ campaign, which includes efforts to drive Iran’s oil exports down to zero in order to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon
Netanyahu ‘is nothing if not obsessive, and he’s still trying to get us to fight Iran this day, this week,’ Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs said in lecture
Corporate media like to present themselves as holding the current administration to account, in reality they offer little meaningful resistance to its foreign policy adventures.
Iran’s smart and articulate Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has been sanctioned by President Trump to silence the Iranian narrative in the US before the 2020 election. Iran is winning the information war, and Trump is running scared. By imposing sanctions on Zarif, US can deny visa to him and render unlawful (and liable to prosecution under law) any contact between him and any American national. Effectively, Trump instructed Pompeo to make sure that Zarif doesn’t come to New York between now and the 2020 November election so that his detractors and critics cannot hear from the horse’s mouth the Iranian narrative….
Israel – prime mover in Trump’s Iran policy – was shocked that Trump might abandon the pressure strategy and instead seek to mend ties with Tehran. The pro-Israel Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), nervously took to twitter to warn Trump against this… A goal of the new Iran Action Group may be to escalate matters with Iran to the point in which any pivot to diplomacy by Trump may be rendered impossible…