Pakistan Shouldn’t Be Trusted to Mediate with Iran
Islamabad has too many conflicting interests, and a terrible track record.
May 21, 2026
Criticize Israel, or Donald Trump, and all can be forgiven.
Last week, Maureen Galindo, a Democratic candidate for a Texas congressional seat, announced that she intends to turn an ICE detention facility “into a prison for American Zionists”—the rare anti-Zionist statement so extreme that it earned condemnation from J Street. Meanwhile, mainstream Democratic figures like Ben Rhodes, who served as Barack Obama’s speechwriter and foreign-policy guru, are praising anti-Semitic Republicans so long as they criticize Israel. Abe Greenwald comments:
Islamabad has too many conflicting interests, and a terrible track record.
Anti-Israel, anti-peace.
Criticize Israel, or Donald Trump, and all can be forgiven.
Photographs of the festival of first fruits.
Two rabbis and a revelation.
Last week, Maureen Galindo, a Democratic candidate for a Texas congressional seat, announced that she intends to turn an ICE detention facility “into a prison for American Zionists”—the rare anti-Zionist statement so extreme that it earned condemnation from J Street. Meanwhile, mainstream Democratic figures like Ben Rhodes, who served as Barack Obama’s speechwriter and foreign-policy guru, are praising anti-Semitic Republicans so long as they criticize Israel. Abe Greenwald comments:
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