Israel, the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East, once enjoyed wide bipartisan support among Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress, but that era of goodwill has virtually vanished, much to Israel’s detriment. Israel’s special relationship with the United States in the past few decades has rested on a foundation of bipartisanship and […]
It’s questionable whether Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont) will be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the U.S. presidency now that Joe Biden, the vice-president under President Barack Obama, has regained his footing and pulled ahead of him in the quest for delegates. Yet if Sanders, a democratic socialist, can overtake and defeat Biden, he would not […]
Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from the state of Vermont, unburdened himself of a few choice words of wisdom a few days ago. They’re well worth pondering. Addressing J Street’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., Sanders spoke of the importance of diversity of opinion in discourse about Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Delivering his first […]