Does Israel’s defiance of US pressure advance US interests???

A new 6-minute-video on the nature of US pressure on Israel The Ettinger report – an interest look at us state department policy Can/should Israel defy US pressure to act against its (Israel’s) own most critical national security interest (e.g., allowing a ceasefire in the war to obliterate the anti-Western Hamas Islamic terrorism; bolstering the […]

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Mapping the Massacres

On the morning of October 7, 2023, a day now seared into the collective memory of Israel, a brutal assault led by Hamas unfolded, casting a long, ominous shadow reminiscent of past atrocities. The tranquility of the dawn was violently disrupted as over 5,000 rockets rained down, coupled by horrifying acts of torture, abuse, and […]

I Might Have Once Favored a Cease-Fire With Hamas, but Not Now

For 35 years, I’ve devoted my professional life to U.S. peacemaking policy and conflict resolution and planning — whether in the former Soviet Union, a reunified Germany or postwar Iraq. But nothing has preoccupied me like finding a peaceful and lasting solution between Israel and the Palestinians.

CNN: Why Israel showed searing images of the Hamas attack

It begins on that early Saturday morning, October 7, as Hamas militants pile into the back of white pickup trucks while the sun is still rising, AK-47s slung around their chests. In one scene, they are grinning and taking video of themselves as their truck speeds down the road, on their way to slaughter people […]

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