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Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
The Trumpster is not yet finished his first year back in the White House, and I cannot imagine how our crumbling republic will survive three more years of this man-child and the misfits and miscreants with whom he has surrounded…
“Oil and ideology.”
Is the flotilla off Venezuela’s coast bluff or a prelude to invasion? And either way, what is behind it? Roughly a quarter of the U.S. Navy’s fleet now floats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, including the U.S.S. Gerald…
“When a mountain falls.”
Stories from Ramla Prison Clinic. Listen, world, to what I want to tell you. By God, the pain and suffering carried by the sick prisoners in Ramla Prison Clinic: If you placed it on a mountain, that mountain would collapse….
“‘Why can’t I see white?’”
Writings from an Israeli prison ‘hospital.’ This is Part Two of a three-part series on Rateb al–Hribat and his writings while in Israeli prisons. Now in his mid-forties, Rateb spent twenty-two years in the Israeli gulag, where he wrote two…
“‘Raw reality’ in Palestine.”
In conversation with a former political prisoner. I learned about Rateb al–Hribat from my Arabic interpreter, a young woman named Sadeel. This was November of last year and we, Sadeel and I, were traveling in the West Bank as I…
“Extrajudicial killings as policy.”
Murder codified in ‘law.’ Video documentation raced like wildfire through the West Bank last Thursday, showing Israel security forces shooting two unarmed Palestinians in the city of Jenin. Muntaser Billah Abdallah, 26, and Yousef Asaasah, 37 were shot at close…
Patrick Lawrence: Pardon Me?
Wandering among the media over the Thanksgiving weekend…. On Saturday I read that President Trump announced the previous day that he intends to grant a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, who has been serving a 45–year sentence in a…
“What Is This? Peace in Our Time?”
The Trump regime’s 28–point peace plan for Ukraine at last addresses Russia’s legitimate interests. The only losers, if negotiations win Moscow’s acceptance, will be the warmongers. All has been fluid and very few things clear since the Trump regime’s draft…
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.”
All around us the light dims on humanity’s shared aspirations. It falls to us to restore them. When he looked back much later on the first postwar years—mournfully, a little nostalgically—Arthur Miller, the noted American playwright, wrote of “the beautifully…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionism on the Upper East Side
What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and the West Bank. We watch in horror from afar as…