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“For Trump, it’s Israel über alles now.”
Just tell me when. (The White House/ Wikimedia Commons.)
18 MAY—As I have argued elsewhere, President Trump faced himself with an unforgiving choice when he let Bibi Netanyahu drag him into a new war with Iran—or a more openly assertive p...
“Dignity in a West Bank refugee camp.”
Ramadan. Awdeh Center, New Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus. (With permission.)
16 MAY—Later this month, West Bank Palestinian families will celebrate Eid al–Adah, one of two major Islamic holidays, in the New Askar Refugee Camp in Nablus. I’m r...
“The grasshoppers of West Asia.”
Being Iranian. 1st century B.C. National Museum, Tehran. (Nightryder84, cc by-SA 3.0/ Wikimedia Commons.)
12 MAY—No one can say with certainty, at this writing, how Iran’s defense against U.S.–Israeli aggression will turn out. Except that...
“When democracy fails: Reports from the West Bank.”
Zionist vengeance. Residential tower in Gaza on the morning of 8 October 2023. (Ashraf Amra, cc by SA 3.0 IGO/ Wikimedia Commons.)
7 MAY—I’m dissatisfied, it’s time to state bluntly, with reporting events from the West Bank. It seems incre...
“Trump’s sanity, Trump’s trap.”
How did it come to th… th…. this? April 2025. (Wikimedia Commons.)
You have to hand it to Sara Jacobs, the California Democrat and the youngest member of the Golden State’s House delegation. She has an O.K.–plus voting record—at least by...
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