Israel

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The Israel Debate Is Reshaping Jewish Democrats’ Relationship With Their Political Home

For generations, Jewish Americans have been among the Democratic Party’s most reliable constituencies, consistently supporting its candidates and identifying with its commitments to civil rights, social justice, and minority protections. Yet an increasingly vocal segment of Jewish Democrats now says the relationship is under strain. As debates over Israel’s military […]

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Close That Facility: The 2026 Pine Gap Protests

It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast diminishing splendour. Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely US-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central […]

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Lindsey Graham Was Not A Patriot

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, goes the adage of the ancient Romans that every schoolboy knows. Regrettably, in the case of the recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham finding laudatory words is a nearly impossible task. George Galloway was on point in calling Graham “a perfectly revolting specimen, and a poor excuse for a human […]

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Deferring A Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks

Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated. Destruction to infrastructure, and death, follows. Yet despite the misunderstandings, the sniping and the harrying, these odd understandings are often described by those funny political coves as “holding”. In the case […]

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Vance Faces Pushback From Pro-Israel Conservatives, But Retains Strong Support Among Evangelicals

Vice President JD Vance is encountering growing resistance from some of the Republican Party’s most influential pro-Israel voices following his central role in negotiating an end to the recent conflict with Iran. Yet despite criticism from conservative commentators and foreign policy hawks, many evangelical voters – one of the GOP’s […]

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The US-Iran Deal Is Now Dead

On June 29th, the Times of Israel headlined “Hezbollah-allied Lebanese parliament speaker says deal with Israel ‘will not pass’”, and this is like if John Thune the Senate Majority Leader were to announce that a treaty which had been negotiated by the U.S., President would not pass in the U.S. Congress (specifically in […]