Now we have Trump – a president who shamelessly gives the ethnocratic settler state all that it wants – and then some. . And yet the conventional wisdom has it that Trump and his people are working on, dare I say, a “final solution” to “the Palestine Question.”  ..…

They have stood by while Assad laid waste to the country and massacred Syrians with 'conventional' weapons. . ... The vast majority of Syrian lives have been lost to conventional weapons and forces. . ..…

There was also Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan (another Christ believer) and an Orthodox Jewish rabbi (who knows the family of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner). . ..…

GOP candidates seen as religious – except for Trump . The conventional wisdom in American politics has long been that someone who is not religious cannot be elected president of the United States. ..…

Yesterday, Trump backer Tim Whitcomb, a Los Angeles filmmaker, was distributing a National Enquirer poll that had Trump ahead of Vice President Al Gore in a presidential race. . Across the convention floor, others latched onto more conventional dream candidates. ..…

Some would argue these are cases where conventional security interests trump values and norms, and an interesting case might be Pakistan, a U.S. ally in the war on terror. . ..…