Tag: Israel
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch. Earlier this month, I spent a day visiting Marseilles to videotape a documentary about recent American military history, specifically the ongoing wars that most of us prefer not to think ...
Rather than bring peace, Trump has made the Mideast far more dangerous. But conflict may overshadow the corruption probes that he and Bibi face.
Is shooting mostly unarmed civilian protesters ever truly an act of self-defense? Could the Israelis have tried just a little harder to avoid killing Palestinian teenagers at the Gaza border?
For a president who clearly envies Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump seems determined to foster violence in Israel and Palestine and perhaps even a new war with Iran.
The case against the nuclear deal with Iran is reminiscent of what Woody Allen once said: “Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering — and it’s all over much too soon.” The agreement, critics ...
Ruled by far-right politicians, the Jewish state marked its 70th anniversary under the dark shadow of the Israel Defense Forces' recent killings of unarmed Palestinian protestors.
Jeff Danziger lives in New York City. He is represented by CWS Syndicate and the Washington Post Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served ...
Named the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, the bill so far has garnered support from 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats in the Senate. A similar piece of legislation introduced in the House of Representatives has 237 co-sponsors—63 ...
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined Wednesday to commit to the long-standing search for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a shift favored by Israel's right wing that could spark ...
Danziger watches America's master of the smear, offering Israel's prime minister political mud to fling at John Kerry.
"Despite our best efforts over the years, the two-state solution is now in serious jeopardy," Kerry said at the State Department. "We cannot, in good conscience, do nothing, and say nothing, when we see the ...
The Jerusalem municipality, undeterred by a U.N. anti-settlement resolution, is due to consider on Wednesday requests for construction permits for hundreds of new homes for Israelis in areas that Israel captured in 1967 and annexed ...
The resolution condemning settlements in the occupied territories passed the Security Council because the U.S. broke with its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and abstained instead of wielding its veto power.
Shimon Peres was involved in almost every major political development in Israel since its founding in 1948, from its acquisition of nuclear weapons to its expansion of settlements and attempts to make peace with its ...
Donald Trump on Sunday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if elected, he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
