An international group of peace activists took on Israel's crushing siege of the Gaza Strip. After two years of organizing two ships to sail to Gaza's shores, the ships made their journey in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. The ships left with several Palestinians in need of medical treatment and others who have travel visas to Europe. The ships delivered humanitarian supplies, including hundreds of hearing aids to a Palestinian charity as a form of humanitarian aid. Israel's economic blockade on Gaza began in 2006 in order to undermine Hamas, the party ruling Gaza currently. Gaza's 15 million residents, have seen a drastic fall in their livelihood, as poverty and sickness became rampant. Among the Palestinians who left with the ship was Saed Mosleh, 12. An Israeli tank ...
Israel's evacuation of Gaza and the dismantling of the Jewish settlements there are important steps toward a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine. However, Israel must also withdraw from the West Bank and enable the Palestinians to establish their state in those two areas. The 38-year Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people (currently about 3.5 million) has been oppressive and unjust. It denies the Palestinians national independence and basic human rights. During the occupation Israeli troops killed thousands of Palestinians, demolished thousands of Palestinian homes, uprooted tens of thousands of olive trees, and confiscated much Palestinian land. On that land Israel established numerous Jewish settlements in clear violation of international law. Substantial militar...
(An additional $2 billion goes to Egypt, largely a reward for signing and continuing to honor the 1978 Camp David peace agreement with Israel.) In addition, the majority of the $154 billion total in U.S. economic and military assistance to Israel, most of it provided during the four decades following the Six Day War in June 1967, has been delivered under terms that are significantly more favorable than those offered to other recipients of U.S. foreign aid.
Israeli officials have begun to question the wisdom of an economic blockade of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, even as the House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly approved a near-total ban on U.S. aid to the Palestinians. The question of economic policy toward Hamas, which does not recognize Israel and is condemned by Washington as a terrorist organization, was a prime topic at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's meeting with President Bush yesterday on his first Washington trip since his election in March.
The Register published more letters that distort Israel's current action in Gaza. The purpose of the current action is self-defense, not collective punishment. About a year ago, Israel withdrew all civilians and military personnel from Gaza, allowing the Palestinians to govern. Israel and the world supplied economic aid. Shortly after, the Palestinians elected a Hamas government. Hamas explicitly says in its charter it wishes to destroy Israel. The Palestinians in Gaza have attacked Israel with over 1,200 Qassam rockets since last year. Thirteen Israeli civilians have been killed by the attacks.
There are five major categories of foreign assistance: * Bilateral development aid * Economic assistance supporting U.S. political and security goals * Humanitarian aid * Multilateral economic contributions * Military aid Due largely to the implementation of two new foreign aid initiatives, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/ AIDS) Initiative, bilateral development assistance has become the largest category of U.S. aid. The most significant permanent foreign aid authorization laws are the FAA of 1961 , covering most bilateral economic and security assistance programs (PL. 87-195; 22 United States Code (U.S.C.) 2151), the AECA (1976), authorizing military sales and financing (RL. 90-629; 22 U.S.C. 2751),...
...Israel and Egypt placed among the top recipients in FY 20...
I know," [Richard M. Nixon] responds. "We can't blow up the world because of it. He and Nixon did not wish to make "Jewish emigration a foreign issue," fearing doing so "would reduce Jewish emigration," he stated in an e-mail last week to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York. "The conversation between Nixon and me," [Henry A. Kissinger] said, "must be seen in the context of that dispute and of our distinction between a foreign policy and a humanitarian approach."
... after a visit to the White House from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and some seven months b...economic aid to Israel and continue deliveries of fighter a...
In the weeks preceding the US attack on Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power, Pres Bush asserted that "a new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the world." Chace claims that if presidential candidate John Kerry intends to challenge the democratic imperialism of Pres Bush, he would do well to reflect on the history and resurrect the wisdom by the "wise men," who came to the fore during the Second World War and were realists who understood that unilateral power had its limits.
...They had experienced a world economic crisis brought about in no small measure by the be...Egypt, for example, ranks second to Israel as a recipient of U.S. aid. Conversely, the United...
... of Boris Yeltsin was preoccupied with economic crises, an uprising in Chechnya, political instabi...
The targeting of civilians violates the Fourth Geneva Convention. Since the rockets fired from Gaza into Israel cannot distinguish between civilians and military targets, they are illegal. But Israel's air and ground attack in Gaza violates Geneva in four ways. First, it constitutes collective punishment of the entire population in Gaza for the acts of a few militants. Second, it targets civilians, as evidenced by the large numbers of civilian casualties. Third, it is a disproportionate response to the rockets fired into Israel. Fourth, an occupying power has an obligation to ensure food and medical supplies to the occupied population; Israel's blockade has created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Although Israel's supreme court ordered the government to allow international media into Gaz...
... for 15 million Gazans by denying aid and economic development? The answer is no." An editorial in th...
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