The New Press

The United States repeatedly isolates itself on the world stage in order to shield Israel as much as possible from any consequences that it might face as a result of its policies and actions.

While Jews’ right to decide the definition of their own collective existence is axiomatic, their right to displace another people to lay claim to an historic homeland from many centuries past is not.

The United States and much of the international community insist that violence is not the path to solving this dispute. (For the moment, we will leave aside the vastly unequal representation of Palestinian violence as terrorism and Israeli violence as self-defense)