SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: DIANA BUTTU Israel’s celebrations continue this week, this time celebrating nearly 51 years of military occupation and the denial of freedom. As a reward for maintaining a more than half-century of occupation, the U.S. will also be moving its embassy to Jerusalem – a decision that only serves to embolden Israel’s illegal actions. It … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: RAGHIDA DERGHAM Just because there are alarming political and security developments in the Arab region hindering its ambitions does not mean it has to stop thinking in visionary terms and start planning in strategic terms. It is unhealthy for this vital bloc to retreat into its tragedies or to be consumed … Continued
SOURCE: FORWARD BY: PETER BEINART After 9/11, a colleague turned to me and said, “We’re all Israelis now.” Listening to Donald Trump announce that the United States will brazenly violate its commitments under the Iran nuclear deal, I had a similar thought. In the outlooks of their governments, Israel and the United States are now … Continued
SOURCE: LOBE LOG BY: ELI CLIFTON President Donald Trump has just fulfilled a campaign pledge to tear up the Obama administration’s signature foreign policy achievement, a multilateral agreement constraining Iran’s nuclear enrichment (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA). In doing so, the president went against the advice of, among many others, his secretary of defense, … Continued
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES BY: DAVID M. HALBFINGER JERUSALEM — He offended the last United States president by trying to sink the Iran nuclear deal in Congress, antagonized the countries that had negotiated it, and helped make support for Israel a partisan issue in American politics. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President … Continued
SOURCE: COUNTERPUNCH BY: CESAR CHELALA President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the deal with Iran creates, unnecessarily, a new source of tension in a region besieged by conflicts. Given the level of legal troubles that President Trump is facing now, his decision could be based to some extent in creating the conditions to … Continued
SOURCE: HUFFPOST BY: TRITA PARSI AND RYAN COSTELLO When the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was announced in 2015, the Iranian people poured into the streets to celebrate what they thought was the beginning of a new era. Long squeezed by both U.S. pressure and their own government, they had just cause for optimism. The … Continued
SOURCE: FORBES BY: JOHN ZOGBY As of this writing, President Donald Trump’s average approval rating is 45% for the past week, including a Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll which scores him at 51%. It enrages liberals who are too myopic and one-dimensional to see deep down the real source of his support base. Conservatives will cheer … Continued
SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: MEDIA LINE It should surprise nobody that the recent tripartite attack in Syria has nothing to do with the Syrian war. The attack, carried out a few weeks ago by the United States, the United Kingdom and France, targeted Syria’s chemical weapons infrastructure. However, in no way, shape or form did … Continued
SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES BY: DAVID S. CLOUD The Trump administration is struggling to assemble a coalition of Arab military forces to replace U.S. troops battling Islamic State militants in eastern Syria, a roadblock that could indefinitely delay President Trump’s goal of pulling American forces out of the country, U.S. officials said. Allies in the … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN The Trump administration is under fire for contributing nothing to a Syria donors conference, helping lead to a $5bn shortfall in a UN fund for Syrian civilians in need inside the country and in refugee camps around the region. The unprecedented US failure to contribute anything to the Syria humanitarian fund came soon after Donald Trump … Continued
SOURCE: THE TIMES OF ISRAEL BY: ERIC CORTELLESSA WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump reportedly asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year whether he seriously cared about making peace with the Palestinians. According to Axios, the mercurial American president went off script in a phone call between the two leaders. The report said the call came … Continued
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