Tag: Biden Administration
Islamophobia concerns are attempts to silence critics of Muslim antisemitism
It’s possible to argue that anything the Biden-Harris administration does in its final weeks in office is irrelevant and may soon be overturned by President-elect Donald Trump once he is sworn in next month....
Why the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is fated to fail … and why that’s a good...
Some 415 days after Hezbollah launched a war against Israel in solidarity with Hamas following its Oct. 7 massacre, the United States, France, Israel and Lebanon announced a ceasefire. While the Biden administration surely...
Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed
We don’t know yet what impact President-elect Donald Trump’s bombshell statement about the fate of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas will be. But in one post on his Truth Social site, he neatly summarized...
A 60-day ceasefire
Let’s be clear about why Israel signed onto this ceasefire. There are three reasons:
1. Joe Biden has been slow-walking aid to Israel. That slow-walking has gotten Israeli troops killed. The ceasefire is designed to...
Under US pressure to expel Hamas, Qatar keeps double-dealing
The United States is pressuring Qatar to expel Hamas leaders from its territory due to the terrorist organization's refusal to consider even a short ceasefire and new suggestions for a hostage release deal with...
Israeli president meets Biden at White House
Israeli President Isaac Herzog welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden at the Oval Office in the White House on Tuesday morning.
The White House stated that the meeting, which was open to a "spray," in which...
Netanyahu point man Ron Dermer meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at his Florida estate on Sunday, Axios reported on Monday, citing two Israeli and two American officials.
The former said that Dermer conveyed messages to Trump from...
US hypocrisy marks the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s murder
In his press briefing on Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller was asked about how the Biden administration is responding to the dire situation for women in the Islamic Republic. The journalist referred...
After Hamas kills hostages, Biden pressures Netanyahu on truce deal
U.S. President Joe Biden accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of not doing enough to secure a ceasefire-for-hostages-and-terrorists-release deal with Hamas, two weeks after Jerusalem accepted the latest proposals put forward by...
McCaul calls for ‘clear display of strength and resolve’ to deter Iran
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) released a statement advocating a harder line for countering Iranian aggression.
“While I’m glad the Biden-Harris administration issued formal notification for several arms sales cases to our ally Israel, it took 80 days...