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قام ميت رومني، مرشح الحزب الجمهوري للرئاسة، كعادة المرشحين الأميركيين بزيارةِ إسرائيل، وكان الهدف من تلك الزيارة تأكيد أنه "الصديق الأقرب" لها، وظهر ذلك من خلال تصريحاته بأن القضيّة ذات الأولويّة هي الاعتراف بإسرائيل كدولة يهوديّة وليس إقامة دولة فلسطينيّة، وأعلن اعترافه بالقدس عاصمة لإسرائيل، واعتبر أن تصدي واشنطن للبرنامج النووي الإيراني واجب أخلاقي، مؤكدًا على ضرورة منعها من الحصول على النووي، وأن هذا هو الهدف الأكبر للولايات المتحدة الأميركيّة، مؤيدًا في ذلك موقف نتنياهو من إيران. في حين ذهب أحد مساعديه أبعد من ذلك، معلنًا تأييد رومني لتوجيه ضربة إسرائيليّة أحاديّة لإيران، لأن العقوبات الديبلوماسيّة والاقتصاديّة لا تجدي ولا تؤخر برنامج إيران النووي قيد ...
Keep Reading »The Unfinished Story of Iraq's Oil Law: An Interview with Greg Muttitt
“No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years of the occupation as global opposition to it grew. But as Iraq faded from the headlines in 2009, the struggle over its oil continued. In the following interview, Greg Muttitt, investigative journalist and author of the groundbreaking Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq (2012), discusses the attempts by occupying forces, multinational oil giants, and newly minted Iraqi “leaders” to privatize Iraq’s oil. Having worked directly with Iraq’s oil unions, Muttitt also describes the heroic role that Iraqi civil ...
Keep Reading »Reflections on a Lifetime of Engagement with Zionism, the Palestine Question, and American Empire: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
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In the following interview conducted for the Journal of Palestine Studies by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, Noam Chomsky reflects on a lifetime of engagement with the Palestine Question. He reflects on his early engagement, and how it developed over the course of his lifetime. He also considers how things have –and have not—changed, and where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could and should be heading. The interview was conducted in Lexington, MA in 2009 and 2010, and the full text is available in the Journal of Palestine Studies 41:3 (Spring 2012), pp. 92-120 and online. Mouin Rabbani (MR): With regard to U.S. foreign policy today, you have been quite ...
Keep Reading »The Pendulum Swings & A New Era Has Begun: Presbyterian Church (USA) Endorses Boycott, Splits on Divestment
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There is a moment, just before a pendulum changes direction, when it is perfectly still. It is precisely that moment that marks the end of an old way and the beginning of a new one. That is what happened for divestment at the 2012 Presbyterian Church USA (PC(USA)) General Assembly in Pittsburgh. At the General Assembly, a coalition of groups rallied to support the Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) in its efforts to pass a recommendation from the Mission Responsibility Through Investment committee to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard due to the companies’ profiting from the Israeli occupation. The IPMN also sought to pass an ...
Keep Reading »Announcement of New Publication: "On Torture"
[The following excerpt is the introductory section to a newly published edited volume entitled "On Torture." The volume is co-published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights. Chapters are based on presentations from an April 2011 workshop entitled "Securing Accountability for Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment (CIDT) in Israel: New Trends and Comparative Lessons." Contributors include Attorney Lea Tsemel; Dr. Ruchama Marton (PHR-Israel); Professor Manfred Nowak (former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture); Attorney Jamil Dakwar (American Civil Liberties ...
Keep Reading »No Comment
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Crowds cheer as a blow-up doll of Iranian President Ahmadinejad gets raped/sodomized with a nuke by a dungeon master Gay Pride San Francisco 2011
Keep Reading »حيرة واشنطن بين شفيق ومرسي
باستثناء المصريين، لا يسبق أحد الإدارة الأمريكية قلقاً وفضولاً لمعرفة هوية واسم الرئيس المقبل. وأثبتت خبرة الستين عاماً الأخيرة أن الرئيس المصري يمثل حجر الأساس الأهم للعلاقات بين القوة الأكبر فى عالم اليوم من ناحية، وبين القوة الأكبر فى الشرق الأوسط من ناحية أخرى. ويثبت التاريخ أن ميول ورؤية رئيس مصر هي ما يدفع العلاقات بين الدولتين للأمام أو يرجع بها للخلف. وكان لما آلت إليه نتائج المرحلة الأولى من حصر المنافسة الرئاسية بين مرشح جماعة الإخوان المسلمين، الدكتور محمد مرسي من ناحية، فى مواجهة الفريق أحمد شفيق، آخر رئيس وزراء فى عهد الرئيس السابق حسني مبارك، من ناحية أخرى، نتائج مربكة لصانع السياسة الأمريكي حيث ترك بين بديلين أحلاهما مر. رئاسة مرسي تعنى ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Iran Crisis, Part 1: War on Iran in 2012?
![[An U.S. Navy F/A 18 Hornet on duty over the Northern Arabian Sea. Image from U.S. Navy. Photo by Lieutenant Perry Solomon.]](/content_images/3/sm_iranarticle.jpg "[An U.S. Navy F/A 18 Hornet on duty over the Northern Arabian Sea. Image from U.S. Navy. Photo by Lieutenant Perry Solomon.]")
President Barak Obama’s triumphal proclamation of a US military victory in Iraq upon the December 2011 withdrawal of all US armed forces from that country made it possible for the unelected makers of American national security policy to focus attention on Iran, a nation high up on any list of US enemies since 1979. Indeed, from November 2011 until March 2012, the rhetoric of senior political leaders in both the United States and Israel about Iran’s alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon fueled a frightening depiction in the mainstream media of an Iran that posed an existential threat to Israel and to ‘vital’ US interests (i.e. oil) in the Persian Gulf region. ...
Keep Reading »"No Trust" Regarding US Role in the Syrian Uprising: Bassam Haddad on Al-Jazeera's "Min Washington"
Al-Jazeera's "Min Washington" (من واشنطن) show featured a discussion on the role of the United States in the Syrian Uprising. Jadaliyya's Co-Editor, Bassam Haddad, rejects the emphasis on the United States' role as being pivotal in promoting democracy in the region. He also addressed the downward spiral of the Syrian uprising and the role of the Syrian National Council in it. Other guests included a Syrian National Council member, Marah Buqa`i, and political analyst Shibli Talhami. [Click here if the video below does not show up. The Arabic transcript can be found on the same link]
Keep Reading »Press Release: Halt "Ships of Shame" from the USA Carrying Weapons to Egypt
![[Egypt's Central Security Forces in Cairo. Photo by Mariam Soliman. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_centsecegypt.jpg "[Egypt's Central Security Forces in Cairo. Photo by Mariam Soliman. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
[The following press release was issued by Amnesty International on 15 March 2012.] A ship carrying a cargo of weapons with explosives en route from the USA to Egypt must not be allowed to offload because of a substantial risk the weapons will be used by Egyptian security forces to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The organization has tracked the Dutch-flagged ship, MV Schippersgracht, for the past two months. It is currently in the Mediterranean Sea and due to arrive in Egypt early next week. The vessel had previously arrived at the US Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU), Southport in North ...
Keep Reading »Occupy AIPAC Photo Essay
![[Police officers outside the Occupy AIPAC protests in Washington, DC. Image from author.]](/content_images/3/sm_policeEverywhere.jpg "[Police officers outside the Occupy AIPAC protests in Washington, DC. Image from author.]")
Sunday, March 4th was an action-packed day for Occupy AIPAC. From the early hours of the morning, protesters occupied the streets surrounding the convention center to greet conference attendees with signs, chants, artwork, song and dance, and in several instances, attempts to start a dialogue. Despite several hostile encounters with both AIPAC conference attendees and police officers, Occupy AIPAC seemed to only pick up momentum as the day progressed. In what was perhaps the most moving part of the day, protesters shared their personal stories and thoughts about Israel's crimes over a loud microphone directly in front of the convention center's main doors, undoubtedly ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Introduction
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[This is the first part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings. Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar.] On 5 March 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a speech in which he laid out the US position on law and national security. The second half of his speech was devoted to the targeted killing program, which has escalated dramatically during the Obama administration. Although the military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been engaged in such attacks for years, rarely have government officials acknowledged the ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (July 24)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] Regional and International Relations Arab instability and US strategy Joseph Massad examines the US policies in the region, including the Gulf states, in ...
Keep Reading »Beyond US Exceptionalism: Stephen Walt and America's "Core Values"
In a recent post entitled “What’s going on in Israel,” Stephen M. Walt effectively undermines the “claim that Israel has always been interested in a fair and just peace.” Walt, like many others, notes the persistence of this “pernicious narrative.” On Israeli policy, he concludes the following: What is going on, in short, is slow motion ethnic cleansing. Instead of driving out Palestinians out by force – as was done in 1948 and 1967 – the goal is simply to make life increasingly untenable over time, ...
Keep Reading »J Street and Americans for Peace Now Biggest Losers in the Presbyterian Church (USA) Battle Over Divestment
The outcome of the 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), which considered a number of overtures related to Palestinian rights and nonviolent economic pressure in support thereof, was not what anyone expected. In a majority victory for supporters of Palestinian rights, the Church voted to endorse a boycott of all goods made in West Bank settlements, all of which are illegal under international law. Yet it also decided to continue investing Church funds in ...
Keep Reading »ضاحي بن خلفان أو يوحنا الخليجي صارخاً بالرياح
أطلق ضاحي بن خلفان (مواليد 1951) قائد عام شرطة دبي وعضو المجلس التنفيذي لحكومة دبي صيحة ضائعة أشبه بصراخ يوحنا المعمدان في صحارى وبحار الجزيرة العربية. فهل من سامع؟ يحذر أن لا صديق سياسياً لدول الخليج مالم تتحد، ولا مصلحة في حرب إيران من أجل أمريكا، بعد أفغانستان والعراق، ولا فائدة من سحق الشعوب وإهانة كرامتها. وضع بن خلفان الذي خدم لما يقارب نصف القرن في الأمن حزمة "المهددات الأمنية" لدول الخليج في 38 سبباً تنحصر، رغم بعثرتها، في أمور السياسيات الداخلية والخارجية، وتمس الأمن الإقليمي ...
Keep Reading »Words Are Not Enough
During the past two weeks, the United States and the European Union released their annual human rights and progress reports, respectively, on Israel. Each one substantially criticized the state of minority rights in the country. The US State Department called the "institutional and societal discrimination" against Arab citizens of Israel one of the country's top three most significant human rights issues of 2011, and the EU stressed that "progress on the situation of the Arab minority was ...
Keep Reading »Protests in Tahrir; Drones in Turkey's Skies
This week we talk to Egyptian journalist Ahmad Shokr about the political landscape in his country after the pivotal verdict on Hosni Mubarak and members of his regime announced on Saturday, 2 June 2012. We’ll also discuss Turkey’s plans to purchase US armed drones with University of Indiana researcher, Burhan Althuran. Last year, the United States had moved four of its Predator drones from Iraq to Turkey, and now that country is trying to acquire armed drones of its own---the kind used by the US in ...
Keep Reading »Iran Will Require Assurances: An Interview with Hossein Mousavian
Hossein Mousavian has served as visiting research scholar at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security from 2009 to the present. Prior to this position, he held numerous positions in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including director-general of its West Europe department and ambassador to Germany from 1990 to 1997. Ambassador Mousavian was also head of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran during both terms of Mohammad Khatami’s ...
Keep Reading »DC Students Walk Out on Michael Oren
On 30 April, 2012, Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren gave a speech at George Washington University’s Elliott School for International Affairs. Michael Oren served in the IDF during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, served again as the IDF spokesman during Israel’s brutal assault on Lebanon in 2006, and was the media relations officer during the massacre of over 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza in 2008-2009. Now, as the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Oren continues to fill ...
Keep Reading »On Kony2012: In Defense of the Armchair
It is quite possible that there remains nothing new to say about Kony2012. This thirty-minute video, narrated by Jason Russell, co-founder of the non-profit organization Invisible Children, aims to rally mass awareness and support for the campaign to capture Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). But Kony2012 is, after all, the gift that keeps on giving. Its tally includes an unprecedented humanitarian social media coup with close to ninety million YouTube views, a mind-boggling number ...
Keep Reading »Dictator House: Season One
[When absurdity reigns and analysis is futile . . . satire.] A doorbell rings. Voices are heard off camera. Tunisia’s Zine El-Abdine Ben Ali hustles to the door. In front of him, standing in the rain, is Hosni Mubarak. The former Egyptian leader has shoe polish dripping down his forehead from his terrible jet-black dye job. A gym bag is tucked under his arm. Relief comes over his face as the two men hug. He is among friends – or is he? Cue a Big Brother-esque camera sweep to reveal the set of ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Lawyering and Targeted Killing
[This is the third part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the roundtable.] The practice now commonly termed “targeted killing” was, before the turn of the twenty-first century, referred to as “assassination.” Both terms refer to the lethal use of force in a ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Targeted Killing: A Meditation on Reciprocity and Self-Defense in Relation to Targeted Killing
[This is the second part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the roundtable.] There is an emergent Israeli/American controversy on the lawfulness of targeted killing. Although the policy has not yet ripened into a national debate, in the United States at least it is ...
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