Archive for February, 2012
by James M. Wall Two events arrive next month on the American political calendar: The annual AIPAC Policy Conference, and the ninth anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death. These two events are related the way yin relates to yang, a concept from Asian philosophy which “is used to describe how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected […]
Filed under: Middle East Politics, Netanyahu, Obama, Presbyterian Church USA, Religion and politics, United Methodist Church | 18 Comments
by James M. Wall Khader Adnan has reached an agreement with the Israeli military authorities. He promises to end his hunger strike, but only if Israel guarantees to give him back his freedom April 17. Israel blinked, saying, in effect, “Yes, you may go free April 17, four months after we put you in prison […]
Filed under: Media, Middle East Politics, Netanyahu, Obama, Politics and Elections | 6 Comments
Tags: administration detention, Ali Abunimah, corporate media, End the Occupation, Friedman, hunger strike, israel lobby, Joe Klein, Khader Adnan, Mohandas Gandhi, Nicholas Kristof, palestinian detainees, Peter Hart FAIR
Filed under: Media, Middle East, Middle East Politics, Netanyahu, Politics and Elections | 19 Comments
by James M. Wall Khader Adnan is a 33-year-old Palestinian graduate student, who, until he was arrested by Israeli police on December 17, 2011, lived in the occupied West Bank with his wife and two young daughters. Their home is in the village of Arrabe, near Jenin. Adnan has not been charged with any crime. […]
Filed under: Middle East, Middle East Politics, Religious Faith | 14 Comments
Tags: human rights israel, indefinite detention without charge, israeli occupation authorities, occupied west bank, palestinian detainees, physicians for human rights
by James M. Wall Israeli blogger Noam Sheizal writes in the US based, Foreign Policy’s The Middle East Channel, that the majority of voters in Israel currently have no interest in ending the country’s 44 year-long military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Sheizal, a columnist for +972, a progressive Israeli website, concludes in his […]
Filed under: Middle East Politics, Religion and politics, United Methodist Church | 17 Comments
Tags: alan dershowitz, israel lobby, west bank and gaza
