| Virtually nothing about the US-Israel war with Iran has been properly thought-out. So perhaps it shouldn’t be shocking to learn that Trump is getting his Middle East news updates via short-form video? Chris Lehmann writes that it’s not just that these videos are designed for peanut brains and don’t show the full context; they’re also skewing Trump’s perception of the war so much that “the president is reportedly upset and disoriented by actual news reports on the conflict that contradict the warm bath of bombing montages that start his day.”
Meanwhile, Israel has not turned its attention away from Palestinians. As writer Ahmad Ibsais argues, Israel is still committing genocide and not just in Gaza but in the West Bank, too. Just two days earlier, we published a major investigation into the West Bank with +972 and Local Call. Oren Ziv and Ariel Caine reveal how a dozen Palestinian communities in the West Bank have found themselves on the front lines of a violent new settler push. For the first time, settlers are expanding into Area B, where the Palestinian Authority is supposed to have jurisdiction.
Stateside, Usamah Andrabi writes that AIPAC is not the only lobbying group we need to watch out for. There’s also now the AI lobby, and he argues that “any candidate backed by AI super PACs is complicit in Trump’s warmongering and the facilitation of US imperialism abroad.”
-Alana Pockros
Associate Editor, The Nation |
