http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/162387-the-two-speeches-of-barack-obama By Josh Ruebner – 05/20/11 10:10 AM ET During his speech today at the State Department, President Obama rightfully noted the “hypocrisy of the Iranian regime, which says it stands for the rights of protesters abroad, yet suppresses its people at home.” But President Obama’s bifurcated speech—the greater part of which centered on the human […]
http://original.antiwar.com/josh-ruebner/2011/04/22/us-weapons-to-israel-are-disincentives-to-peace/ by Josh Ruebner, April 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, U.S. military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed through last week’s passage of the 2011 budget, but reached the record level of $3 billion. […]
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/new-database-reveals-weapons-to-israel-impact-on-palestinians.html by Josh Ruebner on April 20, 2011 Last week, Congress finally got around to finalizing the 2011 budget, which included a record-breaking appropriation of $3 billion in military aid to Israel (not including an additional $415 million in Pentagon funding for joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense projects).This money was the third installment of a ten-year Memorandum of […]
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http://blog.endtheoccupation.org/2011/04/austere-challenge-for-sure.html Don’t you just love these names the Pentagon invents for its military operations? From the makers of Operation Odyssey Dawn, coming in May 2012, it’s Austere Challenge! If you thought U.S.-Israeli military cooperation was already tight, it’s about to get a whole lot closer. According to an April 4 article in Defense News, U.S. and Israeli military planners […]
Blowback Good riddance, ‘peace process’ Don’t lament the end of negotiations that put Israeli demands, backed almost unconditionally by the U.S. and at the expense of basic Palestinian rights, first and foremost. January 28, 2011|By Josh Ruebner Aaron David Miller, a former Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” point person in the George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton […]
Less Lethal? Ask the Abu Rahmah Family Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Bil’in had no cause to ring in the New Year as tragedy struck the Abu Rahmah family for the fourth time in three years. After inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli military at a December 31 demonstration, 36-year-old villager […]
Nor has the United States actively supported Palestinian human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To the contrary, its diplomatic and military support-as well official U.S. policy statements-make the United States complicit in Israel’s systematic human rights abuses of Palestinians. Audio By: Josh Ruebner Iviews* Last month, the State Department held […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2010 10:35 AM CONTACT: CODEPINK Rae Abileah, 415-994-1723, rae@codepink.org Dana Balicki, 202-422-8624, dana@codepink.org Tribunal finds American and International Business Complicit in Israeli War Crimes US Experts and Lawyers Testified at International Tribunal and Findings Identify Legal Remedies and Call for Civil Society Boycott Action WASHINGTON – November 23 – On […]
The Organization That Cries Wolf My late grandfather was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. Many other members of my extended family were not so fortunate and perished in the Holocaust. Organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), established in 1913, were designed to fight against this scourge of anti-Semitism in particular, and racism […]
