The fundamentals won't change: Iran can threaten Hormuz, The United States can punish Iran, and neither can secure its objectives through force.

The State Legislator Israel Caucus says it’s an independent nonprofit, but the Israeli government discreetly paid for its first D.C. junket. Its aim is to set up a system to distribute pro-Israel “model legislation” to state lawmakers around the country

if there's a secret guild steering the American Right, then it's made up of the acolytes of a dead German-Jewish political scientist named Leo Strauss... Wolfowitz, Abram Shulsky, Peter Thiel, Harry Jaffa...

We were driving between Palestinian communities, when suddenly our convoy was stopped by men armed with M4 military-grade rifles. There was nothing special about the incident, and that's what makes it so disturbing. In the region we visited together with Rep. Khanna, there is not even a pretense of separation between the settlers and the army.

Representative Ro Khanna was barred from leaving for 90 minutes, as Israeli soldiers helped the settlers. "We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality. No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here," Kanna said.

While the IDF regularly releases statements on Gaza and Lebanon, Israel's objectives in Syria are largely unknown, shrouded in secrecy.

Some of NYT’s most thoroughly discredited pieces have had a serious impact – for example, libelous reporting on UNRWA led directly to months of famine and mass starvation among Gazans. Many stories were sourced to Israeli agencies with well-established records of lying and disinformation – that is, NYT provided propaganda instead of facts. There may be a strong case for prosecuting many at the paper for their role in the genocide.

One morning, the Hathaleen family of Umm al-Khair discovered that their outhouse had fallen within the illegally expanding boundaries of the nearby Carmel settlement. Then the IDF made things even worse. The family now has to cross the road to use the neighbors' toilet

"No country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability,” Israeli Defense Minister said at a press briefing. “If we achieve this, it will ensure the advantage of deterrence, of the ability to attack, destroy, and all of the other matters.

Proposals to move U.S. troops from the Gulf to Israel would empower Israeli aggression and keep the U.S. entangled in pointless war, writes former defense intel analyst Harrison Mann.