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Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:06

The Hidden Costs of the War on Terror

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Benjamin Franklin once observed that those who would trade their liberties for security will wind up losing both. James Madison stated that no nation can preserve freedom in the midst of perpetual warfare. Few can question that America’s Founding Fathers epitomize true conservatism. There is something seriously wrong in America today precisely because the elites from both political parties have forgotten about Franklin and Madison and ignored their wise counsel.
Mondoweiss - In Tikkun, Peter Beinart struggles to make Israel both Jewish and democratic without affecting Palestinians: Lerner: Would it be acceptable in your mind to have a democratic Israel if through demographic changes a majority of Israelis were Palestinians? Or would you say that to preserve its Jewish character it would be permissible to infringe on its democratic character? Beinart: It would be wrong for Israel to take any coercive measure to reduce its Arab population... We are a long way away from the time when an Israeli state would have an Arab majority, but if Israelis thought that was about to happen, I would oppose any measures (such as expulsion of Arabs) designed to coercively impose a Jewish majority.
IPS - The year 2012 marks the sixty-fourth anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophic uprooting of the Palestinians and the dismemberment and de-Arabization of Palestine in 1948. The name “Palestine” was wiped off the map. Some five hundred villages and towns disappeared; markers of the Palestinian presence on the land that had survived the Crusades were obliterated to make way for a new militarized European immigrant-settler community.
Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:51

The Israel Lobby Never Sleeps

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The Passionate Attachment - There has been no media reporting on H.R.4133 — United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 introduced into the House of Representatives of the 112th Congress on March 5th “To express the sense of Congress regarding the United States-Israel strategic relationship, to direct the President to submit to Congress reports on United States actions to enhance this relationship and to assist in the defense of Israel, and for other purposes.”
Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:32

A Tipping Point for Israel

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A tipping point is where physical momentum, inclined in one direction, reverses its course, stabilizes, and then begins to move the opposite way. Those of us who have been arguing for a sane United States foreign policy in the Middle East have well understood that the odds on shifting the prevailing narrative have been heavily against us thanks to the overwhelming resources possessed by a powerful domestic lobby. Ten years ago in America, it was impossible to place even a letter in a mainstream newspaper or magazine that was in any way critical of Israel. Apart from Pat Buchanan, no one on television provided a critique of Israel and its policies. In the U.S. media, Israel was ever the beleaguered little democracy surrounded by savage Arabs. But then, all of a sudden, the conspiracy of silence began to break down.
Mondoweiss - The day after we reported high drama in the wild wild West Bank, the government of Israel filed another petition to the high court to appeal the demolition of Ulpana, the illegal outpost previously slated for demolition on Tuesday May 1st. This time the state claimed their appeal was due to new evidence the demolition of the illegal outpost would "have significant ramifications as to the future construction in Beit El"!
Friday, 04 May 2012 09:06

The House That Sabri Built

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International Herald Tribune - BEIT IJZA, West Bank — One of the first statements under oath that I took for Al Haq, a human rights organization I helped establish, was from Sabri Garaib, a farmer from Beit Ijza, a Palestinian village ten miles northwest of Jerusalem. I remember sitting on the porch of his house overlooking the garden and the low, undulating hills planted with wheat and barley that spread out on all sides. All 112 acres, I was told, were in danger of being expropriated by the new Jewish settlement of Givon Hahadasha.
Thursday, 03 May 2012 09:53

Ron Paul Gets One Wrong

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One of the refreshing aspects of the Ron Paul revolution has been its willingness to re-examine America’s fractured foreign policy and return to the old principles of national interest and constitutionalism to serve as guidelines for how the nation should behave internationally. Paul has been bold enough to assert that foreign aid, which accomplishes little for the recipient and diminishes the donor, should be eliminated. This has offended constituencies that are major beneficiaries of the status quo, including the nation of Israel and its powerful lobby.
Thursday, 03 May 2012 09:32

Palestinian Christians Against the Occupation

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Huffington Post - In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren claimed that Christians in Israel are better off than their brethren anywhere else in the Middle East. Two Sundays ago, "60 Minutes" made clear he attempted to intimidate Bob Simon by going over Simon's head to speak to Jeff Fager, the head of CBS News and executive producer of "60 Minutes," to complain that Simon's story on Christian Palestinians was "a hatchet job" against Israel. In fact, it was a hard-hitting, but honest piece in which Simon helped to expose the terrible harm the Israeli occupation -- not Muslim Palestinians as the ambassador claimed -- is doing to Christian Palestinians in the Holy Land.
Tampa Bay Times - A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel's long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory and refusal to extend equal rights to Palestinian citizens who suffer from some 35 discriminatory laws.
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  • The Hidden Costs of the War on Terror
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    The Hidden Costs of the War on Terror

    Benjamin Franklin once observed that those who would trade their liberties for security will wind up losing both. James Madison stated that no nation can preserve freedom in the midst of perpetual warfare. Few can question that America’s Founding Fathers epitomize true conservatism. There is something seriously wrong in America today precisely because the elites from both political parties have forgotten about Franklin and Madison and ignored their wise counsel.

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  • Peter Beinart’s cognitive dissonance on ‘threats to Israel’s demographics’
    Written by Matthew A. Taylor

    MondoweissIn Tikkun, Peter Beinart struggles to make Israel both Jewish and democratic without affecting Palestinians:

    Lerner: Would it be acceptable in your mind to have a democratic Israel if through demographic changes a majority of Israelis were Palestinians? Or would you say that to preserve its Jewish character it would be permissible to infringe on its democratic character?

    Beinart: It would be wrong for Israel to take any coercive measure to reduce its Arab population... We are a long way away from the time when an Israeli state would have an Arab majority, but if Israelis thought that was about to happen, I would oppose any measures (such as expulsion of Arabs) designed to coercively impose a Jewish majority.

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  • Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948
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    Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948

    IPS - The year 2012 marks the sixty-fourth anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophic uprooting of the Palestinians and the dismemberment and de-Arabization of Palestine in 1948. The name “Palestine” was wiped off the map. Some five hundred villages and towns disappeared; markers of the Palestinian presence on the land that had survived the Crusades were obliterated to make way for a new militarized European immigrant-settler community.

    Read more...
  • The Israel Lobby Never Sleeps
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    The Passionate Attachment - There has been no media reporting on H.R.4133 — United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 introduced into the House of Representatives of the 112th Congress on March 5th “To express the sense of Congress regarding the United States-Israel strategic relationship, to direct the President to submit to Congress reports on United States actions to enhance this relationship and to assist in the defense of Israel, and for other purposes.”

    Read more...
  • A Tipping Point for Israel
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    A Tipping Point for Israel

    A tipping point is where physical momentum, inclined in one direction, reverses its course, stabilizes, and then begins to move the opposite way. Those of us who have been arguing for a sane United States foreign policy in the Middle East have well understood that the odds on shifting the prevailing narrative have been heavily against us thanks to the overwhelming resources possessed by a powerful domestic lobby. Ten years ago in America, it was impossible to place even a letter in a mainstream newspaper or magazine that was in any way critical of Israel. Apart from Pat Buchanan, no one on television provided a critique of Israel and its policies. In the U.S. media, Israel was ever the beleaguered little democracy surrounded by savage Arabs.

    But then, all of a sudden, the conspiracy of silence began to break down.

    Read more...
  • Michael Sfard: ‘The Israeli government has declared war against the rule of law’
    Written by Annie Robbins

    Mondoweiss - The day after we reported high drama in the wild wild West Bank, the government of Israel filed another petition to the high court to appeal the demolition of Ulpana, the illegal outpost previously slated for demolition on Tuesday May 1st. This time the state claimed their appeal was due to new evidence the demolition of the illegal outpost would "have significant ramifications as to the future construction in Beit El"!

    Read more...
  • The House That Sabri Built
    Written by Rajah Shehadeh
    The House That Sabri Built

    International Herald Tribune - BEIT IJZA, West Bank — One of the first statements under oath that I took for Al Haq, a human rights organization I helped establish, was from Sabri Garaib, a farmer from Beit Ijza, a Palestinian village ten miles northwest of Jerusalem. I remember sitting on the porch of his house overlooking the garden and the low, undulating hills planted with wheat and barley that spread out on all sides. All 112 acres, I was told, were in danger of being expropriated by the new Jewish settlement of Givon Hahadasha.

    Read more...
  • Ron Paul Gets One Wrong
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    One of the refreshing aspects of the Ron Paul revolution has been its willingness to re-examine America’s fractured foreign policy and return to the old principles of national interest and constitutionalism to serve as guidelines for how the nation should behave internationally. Paul has been bold enough to assert that foreign aid, which accomplishes little for the recipient and diminishes the donor, should be eliminated. This has offended constituencies that are major beneficiaries of the status quo, including the nation of Israel and its powerful lobby.

    Read more...
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