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 did anything to merit drawing the attention of the dean as a graduate student at […]
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 Business Development, Raytheon Business Systems, November 18, 2002 I travel around this country speaking about […]
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 is particularly prone to the pernicious influence of foreign interests. In his classic essay, On […]
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 of Friday, December 6. The avowed goal of the invasion, dubbed “Real Games,” was to […]
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 peace. Roughly 87 percent of Jewish Americans and 97 percent of Arab Americans surveyed agreed […]
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 the courage to tell his people that foreign domination of another people is wrong and […]
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 Israelis may surprise many. The idea certainly piqued the interest of U.S. Congressional staff members […]
U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement Updated January 23, 2001 Joshua Ruebner Analyst in Middle East Affairs Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Congressional Research Service
The Current Palestinian Uprising: The Al-Aqsa Intifadah Updated January 5, 2001 Joshua Ruebner Analyst in Middle East Affairs Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Congressional Research Service
