Richard Silverstein

3 weeks ago | richardsilverstein.com | Richard Silverstein

The insanity gripping the Trump administration and its approach to the Gaza genocide grows by the day. This week. we have a proposal to expel 1-million Gazans and ship them off to Libya. Earlier Israeli proposals suggested Somaliland, Somalia or Sudan. All this to be paid for not by Israel, which created the disaster, but by the . Neither the African countries nor any of the Gulf monarchies reacted with any enthusiasm.

3 weeks ago | richardsilverstein.com | Richard Silverstein

In the past two weeks Pres. Trump has shattered the norms of US-Israel relations. It is the most profound break that has ever occurred in the bilateral relationship. There has been nary a word about this momentous development from the media or Israel Lobby. The latter must be shell-shocked by this sudden renunciation of the formerly joined-at-the-hip relationship. For the past two years, the Biden and Trump administrations have worked assiduously for a Gaza ceasefire.

3 weeks ago | richardsilverstein.com | Richard Silverstein

Several weeks ago, the US announced a historic change in its relations with Hamas. After decades of refusing to talk to it directly, the Trump administration revealed that it would begin such negotiations. Unfortunately, few in the media noted this remarkable change and its greater meaning: that it was abandoning Israel’s stance refusing of direct talks. Thus, the taboo was broken to Israel’s disadvantage.

4 weeks ago | richardsilverstein.com | Richard Silverstein

Medhi Hassan’s Zeteo premiered its new documentary, Who Killed Shireen? this week. It’s a deep-dive into the targeted killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the Middle East’s most popular journalists, who worked for Al Jazeera. Her voice and image were known throughout the Arab world. She was also a US citizen. As if her murder wasn’t heinous enough, hundreds of Israel’s thuggish Border Police rushed the funeral procession, fired teargas, even causing pallbearers to drop her casket.

1 month ago | richardsilverstein.com | Richard Silverstein

A California jury issued a $168-million judgement against the Israeli spyware company, NSO Group, in a case brought by Meta, the owner of Whatsapp. Nearly a decade ago, forensic investigators discovered that NSO’s hacking tool, Pegasus, was used by an unnamed client (likely Saudi Arabia) to hack the Whatsapp accounts of 1,400 customers. Though we don’t know which specific individuals were targeted, they were considered opponents of the ruling regime.