Category Archives: Writings

CounterPunch An Open Letter to Paul Wolfowitz To My Former Dean and Other “Court Jews” by JOSH RUEBNER Dear Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, I doubt it if you remember me. That’s okay though. I don’t think that I … Continue reading →

http://www.mediamonitors.net/joshruebner3.html “To qualify for self-determination, a people must show some kind of national identity….What political organizations, social institutions, literature, art, religion, or private correspondence express any ties between the Palestinian people to the Land of Israel?” Adam Cherrill, Manager of … Continue reading →

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs January/February 2003 Time to Intensify Our Efforts Building a Counter-AIPAC By Josh Ruebner Henry David Thoreau, arguably the greatest American philosopher and practitioner of nonviolent resistance to injustice, recognized that the U.S. political system … Continue reading →

Counterpunch December 10, 2002 Striking with Impunity by JOSH RUEBNER As part of its ongoing brutal military occupation and collective punishment of the Palestinian people, Israel invaded the refugee camp al-Bureij, in the Gaza Strip, in the early morning hours … Continue reading →

Znet Arab-Jewish Cooperation in the US By Josh Ruebner Saturday, November 30, 2002 Last week, the Arab American Institute (AAI) and Americans for Peace Now (APN) released a joint public opinion poll of Jewish and Arab American attitudes toward Israeli-Palestinian … Continue reading →

http://www.mediamonitors.net/joshruebner1.html Reflecting the prevailing mood of decolonization that was then sweeping the Third World, French Premier General Charles De Gaulle announced to his fellow citizens on November 4, 1960 that France’s colonial enterprise in Algeria was unsustainable. De Gaulle mustered … Continue reading →

Media Monitors What Is Israel Hiding? August 25, 2002 by Joshua Ruebner & Khalid Turaani With extremism gaining adherents in both communities, the notion that Muslims and Jews can work together for a similar vision of peace between Palestinians and … Continue reading →