AIPAC is suddenly unwelcome among Democrats, but there’s a new sheriff in town to enforce the pro-Israel orthodoxy. J Street aims to make liberals ‘love Israel again,’ but most Democrats are looking to distance themselves due to the Gaza genocide.
Gaza’s healthcare calamity; Trump’s Ceasefire Phase Two, such as it is; death by hanging for Palestinians only?; Netanyahu’s takeover of Israeli higher education; Ms Rachel’s latest marvel; Iran; Mahmoud Khalil
Many of the figures emerging as key players in the new US-backed “Board of Peace” for Gaza were central to Washington’s Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the deadly aid scheme under whose watch over 2,600 Gazans were killed.
Epstein leveraged his friendship with Emirati bigwig Sultan Sulayem to pitch Israeli investments to the UAE that paved the way for the Abraham Accords.
Gazans are expendable?; GHF is making a comeback; ceasefire phase two; Ali Shaath; another wall is coming; “antisemitism” in France; more
Donald trump’s father Fred donated to Israeli causes, supported Israel bonds, was friends with Netanyahu in the 1980s… Donald continued this pattern – In 1983 received major award from JNF (which raises money for projects in Israel), regular contributor to Friends of IDF…
Criminalizing compassion; Ben-Gvir’s racism runs amok; Israel harasses peacekeepers in Lebanon; UPenn calls out Trump; more
Israel’s attempt to plant the first flag of its would-be empire in Africa is its boldest move yet. It operates across multiple vectors of competition: with Turkey over influence in the Horn of Africa, and against the ability of Yemen’s Ansar Allah (commonly known as “the Houthis”) to disrupt trade routes
Israel’s Defense Ministry announced a massive project to expand the production of IDF tanks and armored personnel carriers. Two lines in U.S. Army documents reveal the possibility that the plant in Israel would be built with American funding.
Hypothermia deaths, malnutrition, demolition in Gaza; the West Bank’s Nakba; Israeli officials openly call for permanent occupation of Gaza; possibility of billions more to Israel; death by hanging; revealing headlines from Israeli media; Trump is thinking big – really big