Back in July 2019, while in Michigan for one of the early Democratic Party presidential debates, I was invited to a small dinner with Bernie Sanders.

Israel just completed its third national election in less than a year.

“Mike will bring us together," is one of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign slogans, invoking his claim that, in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he brought New Yorkers together.

Earlier this week, a comment by Senator Bernie Sanders about Israeli policy and Palestinian rights and the resulting condemnation of his remarks by a pro-Israel group of Jewish Republicans opened a window into this issue’s state of play in both American and Israeli politics. 

Across the Middle East and North Africa, 2019 provided an eventful end to a tumultuous decade

In January, the Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, ran an article, “Secret Israeli Document Reveals Plan to Keep Arabs Off Their Lands.” I found the piece unsettling for several reasons. 

Much has already been written about the Trump Administration’s release of its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

While popular protests in Iraq and Lebanon have been clearly directed at corruption and worsening economic conditions, there is another factor that should not be ignored – widespread frustration with the role played by Iran and its allied militias in both countries.

Thirty-two years ago this month, I was arrested sitting-in and blocking the entrance of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.

The US drone attack that assassinated Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards elite Quds Force​, represents an unsettling major escalation in the US involvement in the region.