Image Credit: Senate Democrats / CC The Center Square [By Casey Harper] – A $118 billion deal that combined a batch of foreign funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with a slew of controversial border provisions failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday. The text of that bill was unveiled Sunday, but support imploded almost immediately. […]
Just how ridiculously unrealistic did Hamas get in its ‘counterproposal,’ praised by Qatar as “generally positive” and treated as serious by the US? Absurd enough that the Israelis immediately rejected it, and today are emphasizing that there is “no way” that it even serves as a framework for further negotiations. As noted yesterday, Hamas wants […]
The House GOP majority will move forward this week with a new piece of legislation that is unlikely to result in anything more than sending a message to their counterparts in the Senate. The bill would provide more than 17 billion dollars for aid to Israel and replenish American arms stockpiles that have been depleted […]
Everyone else: Yeah, sure. According to the Qataris, Hamas has agreed in principle to a temporary cessation in fighting to exchange all of the remaining hostages on a 1:3 ratio of Palestinian prisoners. Despite explicitly and publicly rejecting this formula just days ago, supposedly the Hamas negotiators today offered their “initial approval.” Not even the Palestinians […]
The State Department, one of the uglier buildings in Washington, D.C., has all but relocated to Dearborn, Michigan, at least as far as the Israeli-Hamas conflict goes. Sure, there are dozens and dozens of career staffers at Foggy Bottom that are boycotting Uber Eats and Door Dash for lunch, participating in a hunger strike to […]
The IDF plan to flood the Hamas tunnels under Gaza has been on and then off and now on again. The first reports that this was happening came out last December. At the time there were some videos and indications that this had begun but some outlets reported they were tests. After that I didn’t […]
The Feds United for Peace protesters have popped up again. They are participating in a hunger strike to protest the Biden administration’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war. It is only a one-day hunger strike so my question is, how serious are these people? C’mon. One day? People fast for a day all the […]
On Friday, David covered the sickening but perhaps not all that surprising news that members of the United Nations agency responsible for aiding Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) had participated in the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7. In a pleasantly surprising move, the Biden administration suspended funding to the UNRWA after this news emerged […]
In the war launched by Hamas and Gazans against Israel on October 7, only one side has publicly and repeatedly promised genocidal extinction to the other. The International Court of Justice has, predictably, decided that the target of that genocidal ambition has to answer for its self-defense. Weirdly, though, the ICJ decided to creep up […]
Nothing has provoked such a division of opinion as the current Israel/Gaza war – on the background to it, its execution and resolution. Today we publish two considered but different perspectives on these issues and the necessary or inevitable conclusions each leads to. HOW can Palestinians who have a genuine grievance against Israel as usurpers of their homeland be expected […]
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