The Jordan Times: From armchair warrior to war-defining presidency: Biden’s legacy in Ukraine, Palestine

By Michael Jansen. Joe Biden is an armchair warrior who never fought in war but his presidency is being defined by war. War in Ukraine and war in Palestine. Despite being a football player and lifeguard, Biden received five draft deferments for asthma, which enabled him to escape the Vietnam war which killed 60,000 young

Responsible Statecraft: When it comes to Israel, this ‘dissent channel’ is broken

By Blaise Malley. Washington’s civil servants have been doing everything from raising formal grievances to resigning. Nothing is working and here’s why. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced that he would stop sending offensive weapons to Israel “‘if they go into Rafah.” It is the most notable sign of his administration’s shift in its support

Rai al-Youm: Biden’s fake spat with Netanyahu

By Abdel Bari Atwan. Don’t be fooled by the US president’s pretence that he’s getting tough with Israel Joe Biden’s threat to suspend the shipment of heavy bombs to Israel to prevent it from invading Rafah is a poorly scripted and badly performed pantomime. It is intended to give the impression that there is a

RIAC: Trump is Better for Palestinians

By Rich Berdan. President Joe Biden finds himself in the corner of the sandbox when the mainstream media calls him out for his dithering on the anti-Semitic demonstrations across universities in America by politically conflating Islamophobia on the same level. The escape hatch for Biden’s media friends to prop him up is a growing narrative

Responsible Statecraft: Is 24/7 protest coverage distracting from the real war, in Gaza?

By Jack Hunter. The media can’t seem to handle more than one major story at a time. In this case, it may be a fatal flaw The campus protests over the Israel-Gaza war and similar demonstrations throughout the United States are ongoing, with questions about free speech, law enforcement overreach, anti-semitism, and individual university responses

Rai al-Youm: Netanyahu’s anguish

By Abdel Bari Atwan. The US student protests against Israel’s genocide herald major change I have never seen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look so anguished as in the video he posted on ‘X’ on Thursday, in which he condemned the student protests in US universities, branded them anti-Semitic, likened them to 1930s Germany, and

Responsible Statecraft: Israel can still drag the US into war with Iran

By Ivan Eland. The tit-for-tat has ended for now, but Benjamin Netanyahu has many incentives to continue goading Tehran The Biden administration is breathing a sigh of relief that it has so far avoided a wider regional war between Israel and Iran. But that self-congratulation should be tempered with realization that it was a close

The Jordan Times: The ideological coup: How disciples of Kahane became the new face of Israel

By Ramzy Baroud. Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The impressive number of 17 seats won by Israel’s extremist religious party, Shas, in the 1999 elections, was a watershed moment in the

Russia Today: The Middle East crisis has made one thing clear about the US

By Bradley Blankenship. The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that “all men are

Substack: The Missiles of April

By Scott Ritter. The “Missiles of April” represent a sea-change moment in Middle Eastern geopolitics — the establishment of Iranian deterrence that impacts both Israel and the United States. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the “ground truth” about that nation,