President Donald Trump has ordered the most airpower into the Middle East since before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as the U.S. prepares for a possible war with Iran that has hardly been explained by the administration and faced essentially no pushback in the news media or by politicians in Washington.
The IDF on Friday carried out new airstrikes across eastern Lebanon, killing at least 12 in Tel Aviv’s latest violation of the ceasefire reached in November 2024.
It seems clear that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has disrupted Trump’s negotiations with Iran about nuclear weapons by interjecting in the middle of the negotiations another demand–that Iran give up its missiles and its alleged proxy forces.
In our discussion on Monday, Nima and I examine the problematic situation in which Netanyahu has placed US President Donald Trump.
A newly released poll from the Jewish People Policy Institute found that President Donald Trump has a 73 percent approval rating in Israel – including a 92 percent favorability from Israelis considered to lean to the “right” politically.
It is not for nothing that most of the world both abhors and condemns Israeli behavior, whether it be measured by the never-ending genocide in Gaza or the similarly driven terrorizing and deportation of the Palestinian population on the West Bank.
Israel killed at least 71,800 Palestinians since October 2023 and injured 171,555. The IDF also killed up to 529 since the President Donald Trump-backed ceasefire. Another 1,400 have been injured.
Israel and the United States are working out a new 10-year security deal as Tel Aviv’s current “memorandum of understanding,” which provides Israel with $3.8 billion a year, nears its end in 2028.
One’s morning ritual has become something unpleasant over the past year. Opening up the computer homepage after breakfast invariably brings up the image of the Orangeman who unfortunately is otherwise known as the president of the United States of America.
The killing in Gaza continues, despite President Donald Trump’s ceasefire. Israel has killed more than 71,660 and injured 171,419 since the genocidal war began on 8 October 2023.