Conservative Texans take note: You governor is making a lie out of America’s promise. “If I don’t want to buy anything at WalMart, who are you to tell me not to shop at WalMart? Why do I have to pledge allegiance to a foreign country?”:
- ‘I Thought I Was a Free Man’: the Engineer Fighting Texas’s Ban on Boycotting Israel (The Guardian)
Israeli analysts and Middle East countries weary of Iran realize the U.S. pullout from a nuclear accord was a huge mistake, that Israel is no longer in a position to attack Iran, and that Iran’s economic position may improve despite sanctions:
- Israel Opposed the Iran Nuclear Deal, but Former Israeli Officials Increasingly Say U.S. Pullout Was a Mistake (Washington Post)
- Gulf Arab States that Opposed the Iran Nuclear Deal Are Now Courting Tehran (Washington Post)
- Iran Says UK Is Discussing How to Repay £400m Debt (The Guardian)
- An Israeli Strike on Iran Might Have Been Possible a Decade Ago. Not Today (Haaretz)
After “a report last month about a 2019 incident in which US airstrikes killed scores of civilians,” U.S. evasiveness about civilians killed or wounded in last week’s attack is provoking concern:
“The United Nations Development Program projects that the war in Yemen will have killed at least 377,000 people by the end of this year. … [A] staggering 70% of the total casualties are children under the age of five”:
- The World Keeps Yemen Waiting with Deadly Results (Antiwar.com)
Palestinians hold municipal elections without national elections to great controversy:
