Talking is not appeasement — it’s avoiding a nuclear armageddon
The chances of this widening into a much more devastating conflict demands the West explore what may be possible.
The chances of this widening into a much more devastating conflict demands the West explore what may be possible.
Moscow’s moves are a serious escalation — Washington must heed its Cold War lessons now to avoid a wider confrontation.
Trump recognized the wholesale annexation of one country by another. If Biden lets that stand, the global implications are deeply troubling.
The Netanyahu government is moving ahead unimpeded with the Trump ‘peace’ plan.
King Abdullah II has warned the United States that he fears that annexation could cause significant conflict within Jordan, as well as between Jordan and Israel.
If Israeli governments come to believe there is no price whatever to be paid by them for denying Palestinian statehood, they will never allow Palestinian statehood nor end their occupation.
Speaking in a web broadcast organized by the so-called Democratic Majority for Israel, Blinken stated bluntly that Biden “would not tie military assistance to Israel to any political decisions it makes, full stop.”
No one believes for a moment that any plea for mercy, let alone a call for justice, for the Palestinians will be met with anything but mockery by the Trump administration. But it is possible to move Biden.
Gantz was never going to stop annexation, but his partnership with Netanyahu will now make it easier for the new government to move forward on it in a more effective way.
Gantz supports unilateral annexation, and he does not stop at the so-called “major settlement blocs.”