juancole.com - 1/12/2009
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I want to follow up today on my postings over the weekend on how organizing to defend progressive congressional representatives and punish reactionary ones is far superior to street protests as political action on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Cont'd People wrote to defend street protests or ...
haaretz.com - 1/12/2009
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haaretz.com —
The Central Elections Committee on Monday banned Arab
political parties from running in next month's parliamentary elections,...
drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country's Supreme Court. ...
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Israel bans Arab parties from running in ...
timesonline.co.uk - 1/12/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
ISRAEL has sought to justify its military attacks
on Gaza by stating that it amounts to an...
act of self-defence as recognised by Article 51, United Nations Charter. We categorically reject this contention. The rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas ...
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Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence ...
guardian.co.uk - 1/11/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
It's time. Long past time. The best strategy
to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel...
to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups ...
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Naomi Klein: Enough. It's time for a boycott of ...
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Stop the Madness
Suburban Guerrilla —
Juan Cole is proposing a PAC to counterbalance the influence of AIPAC on American politics. Go read, it’s interesting.
A Kinsley Gaffe on the Left
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Professor Juan Cole, in a rant against the influence of the Israel Lobby on American foreign policy, suggests that progressives set up an alternative to the nefarious influence peddlers who promote the interests of the Zionist regime at the expense of the American people. The name he suggests for this new organization? The America First Public Affairs Committee. ...
Juan Cole, The People's Oracle?:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Juan Cole thinks the following is clever enough to post twice : The Israel lobbies take their cue on what is good policy from the Israeli government and the Likud Party . [emphasis added] So, US Israel policy is driven by . . . the Israeli rightwing. That is why Congress voted 309 to five to support Israel's war on the people of Gaza, with 22 abstaining. As a preliminary matter, let's note that Juan Cole apparently conflates the positions of the "Israeli government" and the "Likud Party," even though the Likud Party is not in the current government, with the governing ...
The Big Stimulus
Antiwar.com Original —
... political coalition, the means by which they retain their iron grip on policymaking. Up against this colossus stands what? Or, rather, whom? Well, it's just you and me, folks, and a few other scattered, badly disorganized and under-funded peace groups. And that's it. There's no pro-peace lobbying organization with any heft, and certainly not with any funding. The anti-interventionist blogger Professor Juan Cole recently noted this vital lack, and he's absolutely right when he says :"The reason AIPAC and its constituencies among the Evangelicals and American Likudniks has ...
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