To borrow from Senator Chris Murphy’s comment on Trump

“This is the most incompetent, incoherent war[/economic, foreign, and domestic policy/administration] America has fought[/enacted] in the last 100[/250] years, and that’s saying a lot,” Murphy said, with his comments at the Capitol aired on CNN’s NewsNight on Thursday.

There, now I can take Alie out for her morning walk.

#Politics #Trump #GOP #IranWar #PeteHegseth #ChrisMurphy #Economics #ForeignPolicy #DomesticPolicy

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #government / #domesticpolicy / #protest / #analysis

„To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic #convulsions that produced last January’s #uprising.“

https://portside.org/2026-03-08/iran-transformed

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #domesticpolicy

„[P]roblems that are … existential for Israel — its growing international #isolation, its #braindrain & economic woes, its tremendous domestic #polarization, its creeping annexation of the West#Bank, #Gaza’s instability, #Hamas’s future — all sit on the back burner. Victory over Iran would no doubt transform the country’s security prospects (…) But it will not be enough to mend the country’s deepest #divisions.“

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-after-iran-war

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #domesticpolicy / #uspeaceplan / #objections / #annexation

»According to Smotrich, himself a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Israeli prime minister should instead “establish a military government there, to encourage immigration and #settlement, and in this way to ensure Israel’s security for many years”.«

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/18/israel-far-right-ministers-reject-us-backed-postwar-gaza-panel

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #democracy / #government / #domesticpolicy / #settlers / #violence / #repression / #ngo / #civilsociety

https://verfassungsblog.de/israel-after-the-ceasefire/

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #domesticpolicy / #legislativeprocedure / #deathpenalty / #ngo / #amnestyinternational / #humanrights / #discrimination

»A leader at the human rights group called the proposal “a dangerous and dramatic step backwards and a product of ongoing #impunity for Israel’s system of #apartheid and its #genocide in Gaza.“«

https://www.commondreams.org/news/amnesty-blasts-israeli-death-penalty-bill-as-institutionalized-discrimination-against-palestinians

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #domesticpolicy / #publicopinion

„Despite Misgivings About Netanyahu’s Gaza Plans, Most Israelis Support His Approach to the Palestinians“

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israels-emerging-occupation-consensus