Daniel Larison

J.D. Vance sometimes talks like a non-interventionist, but most of his foreign policy positions don't match his rhetoric.

The Israeli government assassinated the leader of Hamas' political wing while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of the newly-elected Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian:

It appears the VP agreed that choosing someone opposed to protesters of Biden's Gaza policy would divide Democrats

A new survey from the Chicago Council finds that most Americans oppose sending U.S. forces to defend Israel if it comes under attack.

Matthew Petti reports on a string of recent Biden administration decisions to provide even more weapons to Middle Eastern clients:

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge gaps in ceasefire negotiations and the next step is for Hamas to accept ahead of further negotiations expected to take place later this week.

The foreign policy section of Kamala Harris' acceptance speech was predictably brief, and there wasn't much to it. Anyone still holding out hope that she might signal a change in direction on U.S. policy in Gaza was completely disappointed. Harris said

Genocide studies scholar Omer Bartov now believes that the Israeli government's campaign in Gaza is genocidal:

An Israeli soldier fatally shot an American citizen and peace activist, Aysenur Eygi, in the head on Friday while she was participating in a peaceful protest against an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Haaretz reports on what witnesses to the shooting saw:

Van Jackson read the Harris campaign's new “policy” page and he was not impressed: