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Wolf Blitzer, AIPAC, and the Saudi Peace Initiative

14Mar

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Middle East, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Wolf Blitzer, AIPAC, and the Saudi Peace Initiative

By James Abourezk Wolf Blitzer around 1989, defending Israel at a Penn State University panel. Blitzer was challenged by fellow panelist Norman Finkelstein (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHnI). THE FIRST TRIP I took through the Middle East started in 1973, a few months after my election as a U.S. senator from South Dakota. I met with every Arab leader in the heart of the Arab world, including Yasser Arafat and Anwar Sadat, and to a person, each one told me that he was willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel and to recognize it as a country, provided that Israel withdraw back to the 1967 borders. Voilà—that offer then was exactly what constitutes King Abdullah’s peace initiative today. When I returned from that trip in early 1974, I made a speech at the Federal P...

Against Our Better Judgment: How the U.S. was Used to Create ‘Israel’

14Mar

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Literature, Middle East, Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Against Our Better Judgment: How the U.S. was Used to Create ‘Israel’

By Alison Weir, ifamericansknew.org, 2014, paperback, 240 pp. List: $9.93; AET: $8. Reviewed by James Abourezk Having studied enough American Indian tribes over the years, I have grown accustomed to creation myths that each tribe assigns itself as its reason for being. And the definition of “chutzpah” that I’ve been taught is that of a young man on trial for murdering his parents, who throws himself on the mercy of the court on grounds that he is an orphan. That, as Alison Weir has made clear, is Israel’s situation. In Against Our Better Judgment, Weir writes with great clarity how the Zionist movement was able to move politicians, both in America and in England, to legalize a most illegal act—that of stealing an entire nation—and crying foul when those from wh...

Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the US Senate

14Mar

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Middle East, Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the US Senate

By James Abourezk. Lawrence Hill Books, 1989. 267 pp. List: $18.95. AET: $14.95 for one, $18.95 for two. Reviewed by Andrew I. Killgore A few years ago Senator James Abourezk, author of Advise and Dissent, was invited by friends to lunch at a private Washington club. "No," he said, "let's go to a restaurant." Abourezk's answer reflects a deeply felt aversion to symbols of privilege. From what does this attitude, still at the center of his being, stem? Because his father had prospered while others were stuck in poverty? Because of the misery he saw among the Indians in his native South Dakota? Because their misery is caused, as he clearly believes, from an uncaring white establishment? Perhaps all of these, and something else unseen. The American-born son of ...

Palestine is My Cause: Arabs Reaffirm Support For Palestinians, Rejection of the Occupation

12Mar

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Middle East, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Palestine is My Cause: Arabs Reaffirm Support For Palestinians, Rejection of the Occupation

DR. RAMZY BAROUD Palestinians inspect a burnt car next to their home on Jan. 30, 2023, after it was set on fire by Jewish settlers, in the village of Jalud, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers burned two cars belonging to a Palestinian family, assaulted them, threw stones at their house and destroyed their property. (NASSER ISHTAYEH/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 20-21 From the Diaspora By Dr. Ramzy Baroud THE LATEST ARAB OPINION INDEX 2022 (Arab Opinion Index) is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. ...

Rehabilitating Jimmy Carter’s Middle East Policy

10Mar

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Middle East, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Rehabilitating Jimmy Carter’s Middle East Policy

WALTER L. HIXSONWAGING PEACEPOSTED Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2021, pp. 55-56 Waging Peace As a result of his determined efforts at the Camp David summit in 1978, President Jimmy Carter successfully negotiated “a rational path forward to Palestinian autonomy and a two-state solution,” but he was betrayed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who reneged on the deal. Distinguished historian Kai Bird, the author of a new biography of Carter, offered the above assessment in a June 17 Brookings Institution webinar conducted by Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the think tank. Contrary to the argument that Carter settled for a separate Israeli peace with Egypt, thereby abandoning the Palestinian cause, Bird’s research reveals that Beg...

Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

9Mar

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Europe, Iraq, Middle East, USA

Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

Demonstrations are dead-end get-togethers without the leadership of a vanguard revolutionary party. Iraq, Occupy – where are you now? Joti Brar Subscribe to our channel The biggest demonstration ever seen in the streets of Britain palpably failed to achieve its declared aim, or anything approaching it. The question no one seems to be asking is: why? https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1468827586%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-4vPBgmRt2bj&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The two-million-strong demonstration against the Iraq war 20 years ago today was not a success of the antiwar movement, but a symptom of its rottenness and failure. That demonstration’s total impotence was a clear sign ...

Pentagon scrambles to save US interests in Middle East, but it might be too late

5Mar

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C.I.A, Middle East, USA

Pentagon scrambles to save US interests in Middle East, but it might be too late

The Defense Secretary’s tour of the region shows Washington’s unwillingness to evolve. Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump's Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’. @falasteen47 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and his Israeli counterpart, Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant make a joint statement following their meeting at Ben Gurion International Airport in Thursday, March 9, 2023. © AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo Ahead of anticipated regional escalations in the coming months, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in the Kingdom o...

From the Middle East to Ukraine: How the West used terror as political tool

25Feb

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Middle East, Ukraine, USA

From the Middle East to Ukraine: How the West used terror as political tool

RT’s Murad Gazdiev explores the history of the US and NATO’s close ties with radical groups RT’s Murad Gazdiev delves into how, from the bands of Ukrainian nationalists fighting Russian forces to Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria, the West has used terror to advance its political goals around the globe. During World War II, Adolf Hitler’s forces trained and equipped Ukrainian nationalists who would later massacre hundreds of thousands of Poles, Russians and Jews. The current generation of Ukrainian nationalists is being armed to the teeth with NATO-supplied weapons, just as social media has been flooded with videos purportedly showing their units torturing and executing captured Russian soldiers, as well as civilians. READ MORE: Ukrainian ‘commander’ pictured with ISIS ...

9Feb

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Middle East

On Targeting an Arab Woman

BY LARA SHEEHI The Complaint On the evening of January 11, 2023, I checked my university email to find The Washington Free Beacon asking me to “comment on” a Title VI complaint that they had knowledge was to be filed against the George Washington University (GW) by pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs the following day. The complaint alleges that GW “discriminated against first-year Jewish and Israeli students in its professional psychology program” (sic). As an Arab woman professor teaching in the United States, I am accustomed to demands to prove that I am not antisemitic as a precondition to engaging relationally. Similarly, as someone who has been involved in abolitionist and anti-oppressive movements in the field of psychology for years, I immediately recognized ...

The Political Side of the World Cup: How Palestine United the Arabs

26Jan

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Middle East, Palestine Affairs

The Political Side of the World Cup: How Palestine United the Arabs

RAMZY BAROUDGULF Morocco’s defender #18 Jawad El Yamiq waves the Palestinian flag after his team won the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group F football match between Canada and Morocco at the Al-Thumama Stadium in Doha on Dec. 1, 2022, to advance to the round of 16. Moroccan fans were chanting for Palestine and Morocco. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 8-9 Two Views—World Cup Victories Thrill the Arab World By Dr. Ramzy Baroud WE WERE MISTAKEN to think that Palestine represents the central issue for all Arabs. Such language suggests that Palestine is an external subject, to be compared to other collective struggles that consume most Arabs, everywhere. The celebration of Palestine...