Scott Horton and I have written an article now published at the Mises Institute providing the libertarian view on Israel’s military assault on the Gaza Strip. Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, author, and host...
On January 16, I spoke with Louis Boreham of the Truth Over Comfort podcast about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the US government’s complicity in this crime against humanity....
Introduction“Myth #1: The conflict is too complex to possibly understand”“Myth #2: The conflict is all about religion”“Myth #3: They’ve been fighting for centuries”“Myth #4: Europe created Israel to apologize for the Holocaust”Zionism Was Absolutely a European...
IntroductionThe Zionist Mandate for PalestineThe Ethnic Cleansing of PalestineThe Jewish Nation State Law Introduction On July 19, the Israeli legislature, the Knesset, passed a law defining Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, prompting criticism in the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNQZK9gZVQ I spoke with Press TV about Israel’s escalation of illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and why now, with Donald Trump in the presidency in the US, there is actually an important opportunity for...
Pessimism is high as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defies the recent UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s settlement regime by escalating this illegal policy and President-elect Donald Trump prepares to settle into the Oval Office....
The United Nations Security Council on December 23 passed a resolution condemning Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank, which was extraordinary for the fact that it was not vetoed by the United States. Neither, however, did the US vote in favor of Resolution...
IntroductionThe ‘Flip-Flop’ NarrativeNetanyahu’s Bar-Ilan SpeechThe Significance of Netanyahu’s ‘Flip-Flop’ConclusionReferences Introduction Download this paper (PDF) Claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has twice now reversed his position on a...
The only relevance of Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress, and the melodrama surrounding it, is that it illustrates how the framework for debate is limited to the dichotomy of the hard-liners, on the one side, who think that Iran shouldn’t be...
The New York Times reported last week on a spat between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett that was noteworthy for what it didn’t report. Some excerpts of relevant context from...
The U.S. is pressuring the Palestinians to surrender to the demand to recognize Israel as a “Jewish State” — which would effectively mean acquiescing to the fifth of the population of Israel that is Arab being relegated to second-class citizenry,...
The New York Times reported that: In a hurriedly arranged telephone call, Mr. Obama reached Mr. Rouhani as the Iranian leader was headed to the airport to leave New York after a whirlwind news media and diplomatic blitz. The Washington Post said: Iranian...
FPJ — “Kerry Achieves Deal to Revive Mideast Talks”, the New York Times headline declared. The “deal” is that, if “everything goes as expected”, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat would join Israeli envoys Tzipi Livni and Isaac Molho in meeting with Kerry...
FPJ — The European Union has proposed new guidelines for how it will do business with the state of Israel that will require any Israeli entity seeking funding or cooperation from the E.U. to submit a declaration that it has no links to any of the occupied...
Bob Schieffer on CBS Face the Nation interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, opening by asserting as fact that there is a “continued push for nuclear weapons in Iran”, even though there is no evidence Iran has a nuclear weapons program....
Earlier this month, a New York Times article contained the following sentence (emphasis added): After the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week to upgrade the status of the Palestinians at the United Nations, Israel announced plans for 3,000 more...
The headline of a New York Times editorial this week reads: “Wrong Time for New Settlements”. It’s about how An Israeli government-appointed commission on Monday issued a report asserting that Israel’s 45-year presence in the West Bank is not occupation. The...
The drums for war on Iran have been banging louder than ever lately, with a spate of articles by political commentators either directly encouraging the bombing of the Islamic Republic or otherwise offering a narrative in which this is effectively portrayed as the only...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed the “special relationship” between their two countries on Monday after their meeting at the White House, which focused mostly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on Iran. In...
Gaza’s offensive against Israel continued today, sharply escalating with a ground incursion that cut off the southern part of Israel from the north. The Israeli death toll climbed past 400, at least 60 of whom were civilians, according to UN estimates. 4 Palestinian...