When Donald Trump declared he would be moving the US embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it sent a very strong signal to Palestinians and the Arab world that the US did not consider them to be human beings. The move, which was overwhelmingly denounced by the international ...read more
Yesterday, Donald Trump threatened to withhold “billions” of dollars of US aid from countries which vote in favor of a United Nations resolution rejecting United States' recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “Let them vote against us,” the president said. “We’ll ...read more
If you didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election because she was supposedly corrupt/a war monger/anti-marijuana/"just as bad" as Trump etc, etc. take a moment to absorb what the Trump administration is about to do to the Middle East. From the New York Times: ...read more
Having failed to enact every single major pledge he made on the campaign trail in his first 100 days in office, Donald Trump is now claiming that he could facilitate peace in the Middle East because it is "not as difficult as people have thought". In a meeting with Palestinian ...read more
As the violence in Israel continues to escalate, and the public recoils in horror at report after report of innocent Palestinian children being killed in Israeli military strikes, the White House has carefully danced on a bed of the softest eggshells in urging restraint from ...read more
On Thursday night, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution by unanimous consent supporting Israel around the same time the Israel Defense Forces launched a major ground offensive into Gaza. The latest flare up in violence has killed 274 Palestinians and one Israeli so far, but it's ...read more
