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Alison Weir

Alison Weir

Alison Weir is the president of the Council for the National Interest, a former journalist and the founder of If Americans Knew, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the Israel-Palestine conflict, specializing in statistical analysis. Weir writes and speaks widely about Israel-Palestine, with particular focus on media coverage. Her articles on the subject have been published in anthologies both in the U.S. and abroad and in diverse online and print publications.

Ms. Weir has given talks at numerous universities, including Harvard Law School, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Yale, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Naval Postgraduate Institute; four times at the Asia Media Summit in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, and has twice given briefings on Capitol Hill.

Former U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell (R-CA) said of her presentation: “Ms. Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today. She is intelligent, careful, and critical. American policy makers would benefit greatly from hearing her first-hand observations and attempting to answer the questions she poses.”

The New York Times reported of her lecture in Greenwich, Connecticut: “When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to be said.”

In 2004 she was inducted into honorary membership of Phi Alpha Literary Society, founded in 1845 at Illinois College. The award cited her as a: “Courageous journalist-lecturer on behalf of human rights. The first woman to receive an honorary membership in Phi Alpha history.”

Website URL: http://www.alisonweir.org

Retired Texas professor Larry Toenjes, who has sailed 8,000 miles in a 39-foot sailboat to commemorate Americans killed by Israel in 1967, will broadcast live his commemoration today. Toenjes is at the site 12 miles off the coast of Gaza where Israel conducted a prolonged air and sea attack that killed or injured over 200 American servicemen on board a US Navy ship, the USS Liberty.
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 25 Aug. – 07 Sep. 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that nine Palestinians died from Israeli air strikes in the past week, 6 of them civilians.

One of them, killed by an Israeli drone, was a 13-year-old boy who had been planting vegetables with his family.

PCHR reports that 28 Palestinians, including 13 children, 7 women and an old man, were wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, and one civilian was wounded in the West Bank. There were 68 Israeli incursions into the West Bank. Below is the PCHR report:  

gulfcrossing09-056A retired college professor who has sailed approximately 8,000 miles to the eastern Mediterranean has now arrived at his destination: the exact location where Israeli forces tried to sink a US Navy ship in 1967, killing or injuring over 200 American servicemen.

Larry Toenjes, 74 years old, is planning to hold a memorial service for those killed on board the ship, the USS Liberty. Israel shelled and torpedoed the ship, an electronics surveillance ship, in an attack that lasted as long as the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Saturday, 03 September 2011 10:09

History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The following is a short synopsis of this conflict. We recommend that you also read the much more detailed account, "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict."

For centuries there was no such conflict. In the 19th century the land of Palestine was inhabited by a multicultural population – approximately 86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian, and 4 percent Jewish – living in peace.

IMEMC – Israeli soldiers kidnaped on Wednesday evening Palestinian legislator Sheikh Hasan Yousef of Hamas, at the Za’tara roadblock, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank. Yousef was only released a few days ago after spending six years in Israeli prison.

AntiWar.com - Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a "lower unemployment rate than the US."

ros-lehtinen.rjU.S. State Department spokesperson slams bill, saying cutting U.S. funding would 'undermine U.S. international standing and dangerously weaken the UN as an instrument to advance U.S. national security goals'.

Ha'aretz, Natasha Mozgovaya and AP A republican congresswoman introduced a bill on Tuesday, along with 57 co-sponsors, asking Congress to block U.S. funds for any United Nations entity that supports giving Palestine an elevated status at the UN.

The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is also seeking to ban U.S. contributions to the UN Human Rights Council and an anti-racism conference seen as a platform for anti-Israel rhetoric.

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Omar Abdel Hadi Ismael, 18, was seriously injured on Monday after being run over by a settler car in the village of Halhul in Hebron, police said.

Police visited the victim in Al-Ahli hospital and have opened an investigation into the incident.

Locals were advised to take extra precaution and avoid contact with settlers.

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A teenager in Gaza died on Monday after being seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya 10 days earlier, medics said.

Haitham Marouf, 14, died in the intensive care unit of Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, medical officials said.
JENIN (Ma'an) -- Clashes broke out early Monday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin as Israeli forces detained three at dawn.

Palestinian security officials told Ma'an Israeli forces entered a number of homes, and Palestinian youths gathered to threw stones at the soldiers.
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National Summit to Reassess the US-Israel "Special Relationship"

The public is invited to a nonpartisan symposium Nov. 8-9 that will examine the impact of the US-Israel relationship on Americans. Panels will include top military, diplomatic, intelligence, academic, governmental, and economic experts, as well as former Congressional representatives. Read more

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