Alon Ben-Meir

14 hours ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services has become a public health catastrophe of his own making. Armed with no medical or scientific credentials, he has used the nation’s premier health agency as a megaphone for long debunked conspiracy theories, systematically undermining vaccine science while measles and other once defeated diseases roar back. He has purged or muzzled career experts, gutted funding for state and local health departments, and stacked advisory panels with cranks who echo his hostility to basic immunization. This is not ignorance; it is willful sabotage. Every preventable outbreak, every child hospitalized because a routine shot was politicized, is an indictment of his leadership. Congress and the public must stop treating this as eccentricity and confront it for what it is: a clear and present danger to Americans’ health. If Trump does not fire him, he must resign before he causes so much more irreversible damage. ... See MoreSee Less

Alon Ben-Meir

20 hours ago

When a president of the United States threatens that a whole civilization will die, the world must listen—not because the threat is necessarily credible, but because it exposes the peril of letting unrestrained rhetoric shape global realities. Trump’s words are not the tantrum of a man out of power; they echo a worldview that wields extinction as diplomacy and gambles civilization itself for theatrical dominance and projection of raw power. What was once dismissed as bluster must now be recognized for what it is—a warning that when dangerous mendacity meets bottomless ago, humanity itself becomes collateral. The world cannot allow a madman's narrative to become the language of statecraft. ... See MoreSee Less

Alon Ben-Meir

2 days ago

It is hard to exaggerate the dire implications of Trump’s recent post on Truth Social, stating that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if no deal is reached with Iran. Such a damning statement implies that he would use ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ i.e., nuclear, to execute his threat. Obviously, he cannot destroy such a huge country and annihilate a population of 95 million with conventional weapons. Even though Trump was unlikely to carry out his threat, what he said was not taken lightly by either Iran or much of the international community. Iranian leaders are treating this language as an open admission of an intent to commit war crimes—and they are already treating it as a narrative of existential struggle with Washington.

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