Dick Cheney died the day before Zohran Mamdani was elected NYC mayor. His funeral was the day before Mamdani met Trump. Are the two linked in a symbolic changing of the guard of U.S. politics? asks Joe Lauria.
Sanders has made clear all along that he isn’t actually disagreeing with the tenets of Zionism, as much as distancing himself personally from the revisionist Zionism of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump’s twenty-point plan offers nothing political for the Palestinians. It creates a joint U.S.-Israel occupation.
As the balance of power shifts in the Middle East, pressure from Israel and Saudi Arabia may spark a Lebanese civil war.
Like its Gulf neighbors, Qatar invested in a security system premised on U.S. reliability and Israeli restraint. Both pillars have now collapsed.
When the history of this period is written, Tehran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with the U.S. administration of a lame-duck president will be depicted as a trap.
With 150 armed groups in Syria, the ruling HTS (Al-Qa`idah) doesn’t control the country, while Israeli bombing intends to expose the weaknesses of the so-called central government in Damascus.
The organization dubbed its 2006 triumph over Israel a “divine victory.” That may have been a mistake. Its experience in this war offers lessons.
The U.S. president’s ethnic-cleansing plan is the latest installment in the Zionist project, for over a century, to eradicate Palestinians’ national aspirations.
The situation of Syria is like the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors (local and external) operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen.