In Jenin in the Palestinian West Bank, Israel is building the first (illegal) permanent military base in Area A since the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank remain displaced from their homes, with no legal justification offered for blocking their return.
Despite the world’s frustration over its conduct, Tel Aviv is increasing market share and locking countries into strategic relationships. It’s also using US taxpayer money to compete with American companies and appropriate US intellectual property
Doctors in Gaza keep treating one specific kind of patient, children with a single bullet wound. The adult beside them unharmed. A UN commission found that 17 doctors saw the same kind of injury in different hospitals. A bomb can miss its target. A sniper rarely will. In the first 2 years of Israel’s war on Gaza, its military killed more than 20,000 children
The rejected amendment would have stymied an NDAA resolution that would allow the Israeli military unprecedented and extremely dangerous access into Pentagon operations. The next few months may decide the U.S.-Israel relationship for decades to come.
It’s taboo to talk about exactly what happened on that day, and it’s taboo to talk about how Israel’s abuses provoked the attack. How many of the 1,195 people killed were actually killed by Israeli forces? Did Israel deliberately leave its people undefended? We don’t know, and we’re not allowed to know.
The new Lebanese-Israeli framework is described as a first step. But beneath this diplomatic language lies a familiar problem: Israel keeps the power to decide when it feels secure enough to withdraw, the US presents itself as mediator while acting as Israel’s strategic protector, and Lebanon is asked to implement security obligations that its own political and social reality may not allow.
Israel, and its allies in Congress, want to replace military assistance with something much worse. Here’s what you need to know.
Section 219 creates a framework for permanent military integration that weakens American sovereignty, blurs constitutional accountability, and places the nation’s independent decision making at risk.
A House vote on Massie’s amendment would put lawmakers on the record at a time when Americans are more leery about aid to Israel than ever.
Israel’s most celebrated military technologies depend heavily on American funding, research, and industrial support. What, precisely, does America actually get in return?