It is not difficult to project what comes next in Gaza. The post Conquest, Expulsion, Settlement appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Conquest, Expulsion, Settlement It is not difficult to project what comes next in Gaza. This article is adapted from the introduction to a new edition of Creating Facts: Israel, Palestinians and the West Bank, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies. The maximalist agenda of Israel’s settlement movement has been energized by the calamity of the Second War for Palestine. The “Conquest” of Gaza, the “Expulsion” of its 2.1 million residents, followed by the “Settlement” of the Gaza Strip are the unabashed objectives of the ideological vanguard of Israel’s twenty-first century settlement movement. This movement traces its roots, and indeed even its current leaders, to the Park Hotel that marked the…Open
A new book examines the corrosive roots of the Israel–Palestine conflict. The post Eighty Years of Hurt appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Eighty Years of Hurt A new book examines the corrosive roots of the Israel–Palestine conflict. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images) Israel: What Went Wrong? By Omer Bartov Farrar, Straus and Giroux 244 pages, $28.00 An Israeli defense minister received a stunning letter from a history professor at Tel Aviv University. The academic, a veteran of the Yom Kippur War in his early 30s, warned the country’s top civilian defense official that Israeli soldiers were at risk of being indoctrinated to abuse Palestinian civilians in ways similar to how German soldiers had been conditioned to brutalize “subhuman” Slavs and Jews on the Eastern Front. The defense minister was Yitzhak Rabin. It was the late 1980s. The first intifada was…Open
The opposition to this Middle Eastern adventure is louder, but the policy is the same. The post The Donald Is Getting Played appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Donald Is Getting Played The opposition to this Middle Eastern adventure is louder, but the policy is the same. TakiMag The American Conservative was founded in order to try and convince the George W. Bush administration that Saddam Hussein was incapable of building a proper bicycle, let alone acquiring and operating nuclear weapons. In this we failed, as some of you youngsters out there may have guessed. Although we gave it the good old college try, our opponents were far too well-financed and well-placed in government and in all traditionally important posts for Pat, Scott, and myself to win. And what an opposition we faced: Leading the fight for war was Humpty Dumpty himself, in his Halloween military uniform and ready to…Open
The U.S. continues transferring aid to Israel even as it flouts American redlines in the West Bank. The post Israeli Settler Violence Continues Under American Neglect appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Israeli Settler Violence Continues Under American Neglect The U.S. continues transferring aid to Israel even as it flouts American redlines in the West Bank. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images) The House Appropriations Committee released its spending bill for Fiscal Year 2027 covering national security, the Department of State, and related programs, which—among other appropriations—approved $3.8 billion for Israel, following the terms of a 10-year U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding. At the same time, the Israeli government continues to promote and protect violent campaigns of state-backed terror against Palestinians in ways that are so extreme that more and more Western and former Israeli officials are…Open
American and Israeli officials may make noises about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, but there’s precious little action. The post The Emptiness of ‘Concern’ Over West Bank Pogroms appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Emptiness of ‘Concern’ Over West Bank Pogroms American and Israeli officials may make noises about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, but there’s precious little action. The brutality—and frequency—of violent attacks on Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has become so appalling that even U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently expressed “concern” over it. “That is a topic we follow very closely,” he said . “I think you’ll see the government there do something about it.” Not only Rubio appears to have been moved to say—if not actually do—“something about it.” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir spoke out against it, Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi…Open
Even as Israel is fighting in Lebanon and Iran, settlers are terrorizing Arabs closer to home. The post Spare a Thought for the West Bank Palestinians appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Spare a Thought for the West Bank Palestinians Even as Israel is fighting in Lebanon and Iran, settlers are terrorizing Arabs closer to home. TakiMag Overhyped language remains an understatement when describing the horrors inflicted by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank. If you think slavery was humiliating for a human being, try living near so-called settlers. Brutal suppression of any dissent is an everyday occurrence, with torture, violence, insult and robbery—and regular killings—commonplace. Mothers, daughters, sisters and wives are addressed as “sharmutas,” whores, by settlers trying to provoke Palestinian reactions. I lived as a child under the German occupation, but have never seen such hateful faces…Open