There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday, December 23, was an important and noteworthy event.
True, the United Nations’ main chambers (the Security Council and the General Assembly) and its various institutions, ranging from the International Court of Justice to the UN cultural agency, UNESCO, have repeatedly condemned the Israeli occupation, illegal Jewish settlements and mistreatment of Palestinians.
In this photo provided by Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, David Friedman, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for ambassador to Israel. (Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP via AP)
AUSTIN, Texas — President-elect Donald Trump has selected David Friedman, a notorious opponent of the peace process in Israel and Palestine and a financial supporter of illegal Israeli settlements, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.
In this photo provided by Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, David Friedman, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for ambassador to Israel. (Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP via AP)
NEW YORK (ANALYSIS)— If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama’s approach to Israel, he may have found his man to deliver that message in David Friedman, his pick for U.S. ambassador.
President-elect Trump’s choice of a backer of Israeli settlements to be ambassador to Israel may be the final death-blow to the “two-state solution,” which has been on its death bed for years, as Dennis J Bernstein explains. By Dennis J…Read more →
Hardline foreign policy prevails By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • August 2, 2016 The mass migration of apparently hundreds of nominally GOP neocon apparatchiks to the Hillary Clinton camp has moved Democratic Party foreign policy farther to the right, not that the presidential nominee herself needed much persuading. The Democratic convention platform is a […]
Will the 2016 Election Change America’s Militarized Foreign Policy? By Chuck Spinney | The Blaster | June 27, 2016 Pro-Israel Neocons have said they will jump off the Republican ship and vote for Hillary Clinton, because she will continue business as usual with regard to our militarized foreign policy. Apologists for Donald Trump argue that […]
Starts at 8:20 in video 6 of 7, and continues to about 2:49 of video 7 of 7. He says that IP is one of the issues, along with abortion, he gives as sharply dividing libertarians. I haven’t yet watched the rest of the videos (linked below), but a friend assures me it’s a riveting, […]
