The Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” for the Palestine-Israel has, predictably, gone over like a lead balloon. So it’s shifting gears. The Washington Post reports, “With President Trump’s promised Middle East peace plan stalled, administration officials are focusing on improving conditions in the impoverished Gaza Strip — a move that could put political pressure on Palestinian leaders to come to the negotiating table.” More

So, it’s a bit rich that Secretary Nielsen frets that drones are a danger to Americans when the US has killed more people with drones than any other country.  You would not know it from her op-ed.  Her op-ed gives no hint that US drones have ever harmed a living soul, much less thousands of them.  No, Nielsen is worried about armed drones in the hands of foreigners. More

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the single largest mass expulsion of Arabs from Palestine during the Jewish ethnic cleansing campaign of 1948-49, the infamous Lydda Death March, in which attacking Israeli troops murdered and pillaged the people and property of Lydda, Ramle and surrounding villages while forcing some 80,000 men, women and children into the scorching wilderness, never to return. More