July 31st, 20260Evidence keeps piling up that the bipartisan consensus on U.S. support for Israel is dead. Signs appear almost daily that Israeli behavior and the pro-Israel lobby’s heavy-handed tactics for browbeating elected officials into unquestioning support for Israel are being rejected by both Democratic voters and elected officials. Events...
July 24th, 20260Several observations can be made regarding Rahm Emanuel’s recent speech at Tel Aviv University: what he said and didn’t say, and what impact (if any) his words might have.
Emanuel has been a fixture in U.S. politics for decades. After volunteering with the Israeli Defense Forces in 1991, he returned to the U.S. to work in the...
July 3rd, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) that sought to limit President Trump's authority to involve American forces in military hostilities in Lebanon without explicit congressional approval.
The revised War Powers Resolution failed by a...
July 3rd, 20260In today’s Middle East, it’s important to recognize that Israel is completely out of control, and no one has the will to rein them in.
This should have been understood back in July 2024, in the waning days of the Biden administration, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington to address a joint session of...
June 26th, 20260
Regime Change is a devastating new book from two New York Times reporters; an extraordinary account of American chaos and decline at the hands of a madman and his enablers. Read it and weep.
By Martin Pengelly
There are shocking headlines to be drawn from Regime Change, the new blockbuster by New York...
May 22nd, 20260President Trump's state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijing’s ascendancy as a global superpower. That acknowledgment does not need to be articulated in a formal statement; it can be clearly read in the subtext of diplomatic behavior, global perception and shifting media...
April 24th, 20260DEARBORN — In what organizers described as the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States, the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) announced during a large press conference held Monday at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn its intention to file a federal class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government on behalf of...
April 24th, 20260“I am human”
— and so are they.
I learned as a child that “wrong is wrong.”
Historically Jewish people have been wronged; there is no doubt. Anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise here at home and around the globe. What happened to Jewish people on Oct 7 was horrific and wrong. I have and will continue to stand up and...
April 17th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — A closely watched vote in the U.S. Senate this week to block military aid to Israel has failed — but the outcome is being widely viewed as a turning point that exposes deepening divisions in American political support for Israel.
The resolutions, introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, sought to halt the transfer of...
April 17th, 20260A rare and escalating confrontation between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV has exposed deep global divisions over the ongoing war on Iran, placing political power and moral authority on a direct collision course.
At the center of the dispute is a fundamental disagreement over war, diplomacy and the role of religion in global...
April 4th, 20260The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the analytical sphere.
What remains supportive of the war is limited to two predictable camps: official government discourse and the president’s most loyal supporters, along with entrenched...
March 27th, 20260The costs associated with any war — losses of lives, treasure and security — are to be expected. And so it is with the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. It was unnecessary. It has been massive. And it has been waged without any clear objective or strategic purpose. Though only a few weeks old, and still too early to project how it will play...
March 26th, 20260By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo
I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see themselves as deeply committed to Palestine, raise the same familiar point: Arab governments must stand up to Israel and the United States in solidarity with their...
March 20th, 20260WASHINGTON — In the first major rupture within President Trump’s administration over the war on Iran, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned from his post Tuesday, declaring that he could no longer support the conflict and accusing Israel of misleading the United States into war.
Joe Kent becomes the first...
March 20th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S.–Israel war against Iran has entered its fourth week without achieving any meaningful breakthrough in subduing the Islamic Republic, while no clear path toward a near-term resolution has emerged.
Instead, fears are mounting over widening regional consequences and escalating global risks, as President Trump...
March 20th, 20260U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration's illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran.
Well, maybe. "That number could move," he said, to get "properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is refilled, and not just refilled,...
March 19th, 20260When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on February 28, they appeared convinced that the war would be swift. Netanyahu reportedly assured Washington that the campaign would deliver a decisive strategic victory — one capable of reordering the Middle East and restoring Israel’s battered...
March 13th, 20260In February 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations to present the George W. Bush administration’s case against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. His remarks were directed at two audiences: reluctant allies and unconvinced Americans.
Hawks who wanted this war termed Powell’s performance “compelling and...
March 6th, 20260The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that have shaped U.S. policy and regional politics for decades. What has unfolded in the past days is not simply a battlefield confrontation; it is a historical rupture.
Several narratives that once appeared unassailable...
March 6th, 20260Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious and historical foundations.
Democracy, however, is not the enemy. Its manipulation is.
For decades, Western political discourse has equated legitimacy with elections — numbers counted on a single day, certified by...
March 6th, 20260A mini-brouhaha has erupted over whether or not the Democratic National Committee has buried an “autopsy” report on its party loss in the 2024 presidential election. Some fear that the report isn’t being released because it suggests the defeat was the Harris campaign’s failure to break with the Biden administration’s...
March 6th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected a resolution Thursday that would have forced President Trump to halt military operations against Iran without congressional authorization, highlighting deep divisions in Washington as the conflict threatens to expand across the Middle East.
The measure failed...
February 27th, 20260
When President Trump convened his Board of Peace in Davos, Switzerland, a key agenda item was his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s extravagant (and detached from reality) plan for a “New Gaza.” The scheme’s rendering depicts more of a luxury resort for tourists than the foundation of a just future for the Palestinian victims of...
February 13th, 20260WASHINGTON — President Trump will announce a multi-billion dollar reconstruction plan for Gaza and detail plans for a U.N.-authorized stabilization force for the Palestinian enclave at the first formal meeting of his Board of Peace next week, two senior U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Delegations from at least 20 countries,...
February 13th, 20260on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hoped that President Trump was creating the conditions to reach a deal with Iran that would avoid military action.
Netanyahu, who met Trump for talks in Washington on Wednesday, said he had expressed "general skepticism" and said that if an agreement was reached, "it must...
February 6th, 20260A U.S. military attack on Iran would not restore deterrence or strengthen American credibility. Instead, it would confirm a deeper failure: relying on force instead of strategy. After more than 20 years of wars labeled as necessary and manageable, Washington is again on the brink of a conflict it claims can handle but hasn’t fully...
February 4th, 20260Former U.S. Representative Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic member of Congress from Indiana and a widely respected authority on U.S. foreign policy whose column appeared regularly in The Arab American News for more than a decade, passed away peacefully late Tuesday night at his home in Bloomington, Indiana. He was 94.
Over a 34-year...
January 30th, 20260The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules, or designing new ones, to fit U.S. strategic interests.
This may sound harsh, but it is a necessary realization, particularly in light of President Trump’s latest political invention: the so-called Board of Peace.
Some have hastily concluded that...
