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Take Action: $170 Million More in Military Aid to Israel

Categories: Occupied Palestine, USA, Israel Lobby, Violence. Posted by: Administrator on July 4, 2008 at 12:10 am.

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, July 2nd, 2008

It’s bad enough that Congress passed the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 two weeks ago, spending $165 billion more on our country’s illegal war on and occupation of Iraq well into 2009.

To add insult to injury, after closely reading the bill, we discovered that Congress snuck in a last-minute earmark for $170 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) for Israel!

The culprit: Representative David Obey (WI-7), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, who has received nearly $225,000 from “pro-Israel” PAC’s and more than $200,000 from the military-industrial complex since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Yes, the same David Obey who can be seen in this video berating peace activists for wanting to cut off funding for the war in Iraq.

Yesterday, the US Campaign sent Rep. Obey a sharply-worded letter protesting his decision to slip this earmark for Israel into an unrelated bill at the last minute, thereby preventing any public scrutiny or debate. To view a copy of the letter, please click here.

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Israel travel permits vital for Gaza students: Rice

Categories: Occupied Palestine, USA, Gaza, Apartheid, Sanctions. Posted by: Administrator on June 15, 2008 at 8:20 pm.

Reuters, Jun 15, 2008

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday it was "extremely important" Israel allow three Palestinians to leave the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to take up prestigious U.S. fellowships.

Earlier this year the U.S. government was embarrassed when it became public it had withdrawn Fulbright fellowships for seven Gaza students because Israel had not granted them exit permits from the blockaded territory.

Israel tightened its cordon of the Gaza Strip after the Hamas Islamist group took control there nearly a year ago. Israel gives few Palestinians, other than some who are gravely ill, permission to leave.

Israel has also tightened rules for Palestinian staff of the United Nations who travel in and out of the occupied West Bank, internal U.N. emails and aid workers say.

After media reports about the students' case, the United States restored the fellowships and formally asked Israel to allow them to leave Gaza.

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Illegal Entry

Categories: USA. Posted by: Administrator on June 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm.

 

Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent, 40" x 50", 2005
by Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao

 

No, I Can't!

Categories: Occupied Palestine, USA, Israel Lobby. Posted by: Administrator on June 10, 2008 at 10:43 am.

Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom, 07 June 08

Obama's declarations at the AIPAC conference are very, very bad for peace. And what is bad for peace is bad for Israel, bad for the world and bad for the Palestinian people

AFTER MONTHS of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world.

And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the conference of the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and made a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning.

That is shocking enough. Even more shocking is the fact that nobody was shocked.

IT WAS a triumphalist conference. Even this powerful organization had never seen anything like it. 7000 Jewish functionaries from all over the United States came together to accept the obeisance of the entire Washington elite, which came to kowtow at their feet. All the three presidential hopefuls made speeches, trying to outdo each other in flattery. 300 Senators and Members of Congress crowded the hallways. Everybody who wants to be elected or reelected to any office, indeed everybody who has any political ambitions at all, came to see and be seen.

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Indecision 5768

Categories: Occupied Palestine, USA, Israel Lobby. Posted by: Administrator on June 10, 2008 at 9:00 am.

Obama, Clinton and McCain all address AIPAC — the leading pro-Israel lobbying group — and Jon Stewart scores them



5768 (Hebrew: ה'תשס"ח , abbr.: תשס"ח) is the Hebrew year that started in the evening before September 13, 2007 and will end on September 29, 2008. (Wikipedia)

June 11, 2008
Rally at CAT Shareholder Meeting

Categories: Occupied Palestine, USA, Apartheid, Violence, Sanctions, Event. Posted by: Administrator on June 8, 2008 at 6:52 pm.

Wednesday, June 11 the annual Caterpiller shareholder meeting will be held in Chicago. The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is calling for two things:

  • First, Send a message to Caterpiller asking them to stop selling militarized bulldozers, like the one that killed Rachel Corrie, to Israel; and
  • Second, attend the protest at the shareholder meeting on Wednesday, June 11 at lunchtime in Chicago.
  • Details on both of these options, including a link to send a letter, are below.

    Thanks,
    Barb O.

    Boycott & Divestment  »  Caterpillar Campaign  »  CAT Campaign  »

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    The Lesson of the Fulbright Seven

    Categories: Occupied Palestine, USA, Gaza, Sanctions, Palestinian Culture. Posted by: Administrator on June 8, 2008 at 6:30 pm.

    Editorial, The New York Times, June 8, 2008

    Seven highly qualified and carefully vetted Palestinian students from the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip will come to the United States for advanced study after all.

    After reporting in The Times by Ethan Bronner drew high-level American attention, top State Department officials intervened to restore the students’ Fulbright fellowships that lower-level functionaries had notified them would be withdrawn. Israel has agreed to facilitate special exit permits.

    It is a welcome victory — for the students; for Israel, which should want to see more of Gaza’s young people follow a path of hope and education rather than hopelessness and martyrdom; and for the United States, whose image in the Middle East badly needs burnishing.

    It should not be the end of the story. There are hundreds of other foreign fellowship winners still trapped in Gaza by the same Israeli policy that nearly blocked the Fulbright Seven. On Thursday, an Israeli official told The Times that the government would allow a very limited number of additional students to leave Gaza to study abroad. That is a clear step in the right direction, but not enough. Gaza is home to roughly 1.5 million Palestinians. Some 600 foreign scholarship winners have been barred from leaving.

    The ban on student departures is part of the wider Israeli economic blockade imposed on the civilian population of Gaza in response to Hamas rule and a steady rain of rocket attacks. This also needs to be re-examined.

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