It is clear, he said, that the majority of the world's countries support a two-state solution; compensation for land; right of return; East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine; and the illegality of Israeli settlements under international law. Questions and debates must be free of ideological baggage, he maintained, and should be framed in a different manner, such as: "Did ethnic cleansing occur?"; "Are demolishing homes and torture morally right?" or "Is building a wall on another people's country just?" Finkelstein's final point was that in order for those seeking justice for the Palestinian people to move forward they need to build on the foundation that has already been laid-and that foundation is the two-state solution.
By ALISSA J. RUBIN Los Angeles Times
At a July 9, 2004 session in The Hague, the president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Shi Liuyong, reads the court's ruling that Israel's separation wall being built on West Bank Palestinian land is in violation of international law and must be dismantled. As Williams discusses, the ICJ decision was a triumph for international law and the Palestinians, with every single judge on the 15-member panel except American Judge Thomas Buergenthal, who basically followed the US administration's line agreeing to the total illegality of the Wall.
From that position, and as a savvy pol who collects political IOUs because he "can vote yes a lot," he has tremendous influence over military and intelligence budgets, a power he is convinced to use to help arm the Afghan Mujahedeen in their resistance against Soviet occupation. After a meeting in which Zia and two of his military advisors excoriate the United States' paltry doubling of the Afghan covert budget from $5 million to $10 million ("Is that supposed to be some kind of funny joke?!?") as well as the CIA, which "missed 130,000 Soviet troops walking into Afghanistan," Zia has Wilson transported to see the refugee camps at Peshawar.
DEARBORN - It's been a week of mourning and remembrance for many in the Middle East and also locally in the wake of Sunday, July 4th's passing of top Shi'a Muslim cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah in a Beirut hospital due to internal bleeding, a condition for which he was admitted in June. Fadlallah was 74 years old. Fadlallah was a strong proponent of the resistance movement in southern Lebanon against Israeli occupation of Arab lands and a critic of U.S. foreign policy's favoritism of Israel in the region. He widely questioned the U.S.' stance on Arab-Israeli conflicts, saying that the UJS. "had not taken a single neutral position" in a 2009 interview with the Wall Street Journal. A Lebanese Muslim woman follower of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah carries h...
Let me say to our younger generation, let' us learn from history a little bit. Let us learn from the struggle of the black community here and in their quest to help fight and stand up against the former apartheid regime in South Africa. Let us remember the sacrifices of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress that at one time was classified by American foeign policy makers as 'terrorists.' Look at their struggle and its outcome. The Israelis and their supporters in this country want us to be ashamed of Hizbullah and the heroic resisitance they displayed against the illegal and immoral Israeli occupation of a very dear area of our homeland Lebanon. I will tell them today I am responsible when I say I am proud of Hizbullah resistance against Israeli occupation and aggression. We...
The 2004 discussion over U.S. soldiers who bought their own body plates and resorted to "hillbilly armor" to protect their Humvees from roadside bombs was a case in point. Antiwar pundits, including me, tried to drive a wedge between the [George W Bush] administration and the military by pointing out that the Pentagon was pinching pennies at the expense of soldiers' lives. But what if you're an Iraqi? You risk your own life every time you place an IED along the "Highway of Death" between Baghdad and the airport. The more Americans you blow up, the closer you come to achieving your goal of liberating Iraq. The last thing you need is "antiwar" Americans agitating for stronger armor plates! The moral quandry forced upon the left is epitomized by Phyllis Bennis, an in-the-box wonk for the I...
... only significant resistance, to the occupation of Iraq is the resistance being waged by the Iraqi...You're against the war. Do you pray for the SS? Or the French Res...
The United States spent nine years (1980-1989) working closely with Pakistan's military against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, followed by 11 years (1990-2001) of punishing Pakistan with all manner of sanctions for its secret nuclear weapons development that it kept denying even existed, followed by nine years (2001-2010) making up with Pakistan as "a major non-NATO ally" to enlist its support against al Qaeda and the Taliban. If trust between the U.S. and Pakistani military was zero on a one-to-10 trust-o-meter before Sept. 11, it painfully and haltingly made it back to six or seven since Sept. 11. Until last month, that is. Nine high-ranking Pakistani officers, flying in to attend a yearly meeting at CENTCOM headquarters in Tampa, Fla., found themselves detained at Washington D...
NEW YORK - Thousands of protesters turned out nationwide Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war on Iraq and call for the removal of American troops from the Middle East country. It is time to bring our children home and declare this war was unnecessary," said the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a New York activist addressing a rally in Manhattan.
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