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The social cost of Israeli aid

By Paul Balles,  Posted on » Saturday, March 23, 2013 Josh Reubner, grassroots advocacy co-ordinator for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation says Israel stands to lose approximately $250 million of its $3.1 billion military aid package from the US under the terms of American budget cuts. But as a result of sequestration in […]

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Updates from the West Bank and US Foreign Aid to Israel

WORT 89.9 FM Madison, WI http://www.wortfm.org/updates-from-the-west-bank-as-well-as-us-foreign-aid-to-israel/ On Tuesday March 19th,  Anjuli Brekke hosted a show discussing the situation in the West Bank as well as how the sequestration will impact foreign aid to Israel. 1000 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, face imminent forced expulsion from their homes in the Southern West Bank region known […]

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Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/89522 Dennis Bernstein interviews National Advocacy Director Josh Ruebner on AIPAC lobbying to avoid the effects of the sequester on military aid to Israel and to promote U.S. support for an Israeli attack on Iran on Flashpoints, KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley. Flashpoints, for March 6, 2013 – 5:00pm Click to Play: Download this clip (mp3, 10.27 […]

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Air Cascadia with Chris Andreae

http://kboo.fm/node/54319 Chris Andreae interviews National Advocacy Director Josh Ruebner about AIPAC, sequestration, and military aid to Israel on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland. Air Cascadia on 03/05/13 Program: Air Cascadia Air date: Tue, 03/05/2013 – 10:00am – 10:15am Short Description: Local News Download: kboo_episode.2.130305.1000.8690.mp3  

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‘Israel lobby’ to push for aid despite sequestration cuts

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/285991-israel-lobby-to-push-for-aid-despite-sequestration-cuts By Josh Ruebner, author, Why Obama failed to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace – 03/04/13 12:45 PM ET   The long-dreaded sequestration has arrived, bringing with it potentially catastrophic consequences for governmental programs designed to benefit those most in need. The NAACP estimates these across-the-board cuts will result in 100,000 fewer low-income children being prepared for school […]

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During AIPAC conference, activists launch ad campaign to end $30 billion aid package to Israel

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/during-aipac-conference-activists-launch-ad-campaign-end-30-billion-aid-package-israel Submitted by nora on Mon, 03/04/2013 – 13:57 Nora Barrows-Friedman An ad by Visualizing Palestine and the US Campaign to End the Occupation, up this week in the Washington, DC metro area. (Visualizing Palestine/US Campaign to End the Occupation) Over the weekend, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest Israel lobby group in the US, began […]

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Advertising campaigns target AIPAC and US aid to Israel across Washington DC

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/03/advertising-campaigns-washington.html by Adam Horowitz on March 4, 2013 (Image: Visualizing Palestine/ US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation) The following press release was sent out by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Visualizing Palestine: As the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gathered for its annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. today, the US Campaign […]

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Washington DC ad campaign seeks to ‘expose’ Israeli lobby in America

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/03/03/269443.html Sunday, 03 March 2013 This is one of the advertisements that will be shown across the United States capital on Monday. (Courtesy www.endtheoccupation.org) By AL ARABIYA An advertising drive is expected to take Washington D.C by storm on Monday as the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Visualizing Palestine call on the United […]

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‘Expose AIPAC’: U.S. activists campaign against Israeli lobby in America

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/28/268900.html Thursday, 28 February 2013 A national coalition of nearly 400 groups, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation says it works to end U.S. support for Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. (Screen grab from www.endtheoccupation.org) By AL ARABIYA A U.S.-based coalition that opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestine […]

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