Mitchell Plitnick
@mjplitnick
Prez, ReThinking Foreign Policy. Writer, researcher, analyst, speaker. Co-author of Except for Palestine President of ReThinking Foreign Policy Subscribe to my Substack at
A serial liar hates being called on his lies. Trump's latest unhinged rant is an example. Regardless of the truth of Trump's recent claim that the parameters of a deal were in place (likely a lie), his call here for "total surrender" tells the reality of prospects for ending this madness he started.
Threatening us with a good time while he flirts with Fox News, the less Democrats ever hear from James Carville - who has built an entire career on getting one thing right 35 years ago - the more likely Republicans can be defeated.
At what point does everyone stop bullshitting ourselves and others and just admit that there is no such thing as a negotiated agreement that Israel will accept? www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-08...
How much clearer can it be that the Israeli system is the very definition of apartheid? Two different sets of laws based entirely on ethnicity and EXPLICITLY disconnected from citizenship, the usual bullshit counter-argument. It is simply undeniable.
Below is the path Netanyahu's plane took to get to DC today. Apparently, Greece, Italy, and France can't be bothered with little details like international law as they allowed a fugitive wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity to casually fly over their airspace.
Finally, Neera Tanden speaks about a subject with which she has more experience than just about anyone: losing to Republicans.
The most conservative estimates say that nearly 3500 Iranians have been killed, including many women and women and children. That includes over 110 schoolgirls at the start of the war. So, please fuck all the way off with this kind of obscene, bullying talk, Donnie.
The House defeated Massie's amendment to strip $3.3 billion of aid to Israel. But more than half of Democrats either voted for the amendment (48%) or voted present/not voting. That is a MASSIVE shift in the politics of aid to Israel, one that would have been unfathomable just a few years ago.
This attack was reportedly on a private home at 3:30 AM. But self-defense, right?
Senate Democrats have blocked the NDAA by causing the vote to end debate on it to fail. This is about the renewed war on Iran, and crucially, the provisions to weld American and Israeli militaries together. Call your senator and demand they hold the line on this part of the bill, section 219.
I want to be sarcastic and snarky about this, but I just can't. I, and many others, were telling people this was happening AT THE TIME! We were mocked, insulted and ignored. The price was tens of thousands of lives, including some Israeli hostages.
Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks, creator of the funniest movies ever.
Wow, Dubowitz has gone full Trump, complete with bizarre, insane midnight ravings on Twitter.
Jewish community leaders in the area have called on people not to leap to conclusions and expressed serious doubt that the attack was motivated by #antisemitism. But the despicable Danny Danon never lets either the facts or the safety of Jewish people get in the way of his vicious fomenting of hate.
Life is full of ironies. The idea that Israel is the only country in the region with the right of self-defense has been the unstated policy of one American administration after another. Both Trump and Vance have contradicted that notion in recent days. Who had that on their bingo card for this year?
Presenting Hillary Clinton reminding us all that she symbolizes everything the #Democrats have gotten so tragically wrong about both politics and foreign policy.
#Israel installed giant cranes in #Gaza equipped with cameras and guns. They fire haphazardly into #Palestinian areas tents since Israel has destroyed most of Gaza. Israel has become so cowardly they don't even use snipers to kill children. They do it entirely by remote control. Contemptible.
In the latest episode of Globalists, Josh White and I spoke with Wieland Hoban, Author of "German Apartheid Politics," available at thebattleground.eu/book/german-... about Germany's failed bid to rejoin the UNSC Our discussion is below: Germany's Israel Problem open.substack.com/pub/thebattl...
Ultra-orthodox parties are about to bring down #Israel's government. What does the electoral landscape, will Netanyahu survive, and if not, will it have a significant impact on Israeli policies? My analysis for The Battleground. thebattleground.eu/2026/05/22/w...
Amin Abdullah, killed today doing his job at the San Diego mosque, stopping the two TEENAGE shooters from reaching any of the children inside. When you want to find a hero, look no further.
Centrist Dems are all in on the dirty tricks on this one. El-Sayed never misrepresented anything. He was clear that he used his MD to go into public service, rather than what would have been a more lucrative private practice. These people have learned nothing from their disasters of the past decade.
This is getting more pathetic and outrageous every day. Lots of doctors do things other than treating patients. They are no less doctors for that and no less medical experts - in some cases, and some ways they are even more expert, certain public policy. McMorrow is desperate and a lousy candidate.
How much clearer can he make it, MAGAts? #Trump doesn't give you a second thought. Or a first one, for that matter.
Tomorrow, Sunday May 10 at 1 pm pacific, tune in to KPFK.org or KPFK FM in LA. A recording of the discussion will be available later at the web site as well.
If a Palestinian group posted such a picture, including all of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank in a single state, you can bet that Hillel International would join a chorus of extreme nationalists denouncing it as "genocidal antisemitism."
Things are finally changing. Let's keep pushing and push harder. And let's also not miss the fact that it took a horrific genocide and a disastrous war for so many of our neighbors to start dealing with reality.
This is beyond contemptible. To call Miss Rachel antisemitic and explicitly say that it's SOLELY because she has shown compassion for #Palestinian children is, itself, antisemitic and a profound insult to every Jew who has ever suffered an antisemitic attack responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-antis...