War

Belgium’s capital city of Brussels is on its highest alert as residents remain on lockdown. People are being told to stay away from their windows, and schools remain closed as police and soldiers carry out raids in the search for suspects in the Paris attacks ten days ago that killed 130 people.

President Trump used the anniversary to push for NATO countries to increase military spending.

The subtext here is that people in the region believe the U.S. is bombing an Arab country on behalf of Israeli shipping in the Red Sea and to protect Israel from repercussions for its Gaza genocide.

To paraphrase one Middle Eastern prophet, the leadership and media of western countries need to remove the log from their own eye before they will ever be able to help the greater Middle East remove the splinter from its own.

Escalating violence and civilian casualties amid U.S.-Israel alignment on regional tensions with Iran and Hezbolla.

A bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally breath-taking cruelty.

The 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade.

By giving America it’s dumbest and cruelest wars, the best and brightest left room for a dumber and crueler leader to end them.

As a rabbi committed to the practice of Jewish nonviolence, I know a long road of reparative action stretches before us. But it’s the only way.

The United States can go big on diplomacy or on military destruction. Which way will Biden lean?