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A “New Sheriff in Town” Is Kicking Up Her Heels
by James M. Wall Nikki Haley, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, (right) was greeted as a rock star at this year’s AIPAC Washington Conference. The former governor of South Carolina wowed the crowd of 19,000, in an on-stage interview … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Middle East, Netanyahu, Palestinians
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Israel’s Apartheid Elephant Is Still in the Room
ESCWA, for its part, took steps to ensure that the report lived up to scholarly standards, submitting the draft text to three prominent international jurists, who anonymously submitted strong positive appraisals along with some suggestions for revision, which we gratefully incorporated before the final text was released. For government officials and others to dismiss our report as a biased polemic is irresponsible, with respect both to the authority of the UN and to international law. Continue reading
The Political History Behind Trump’s Curtain
by James M. Wall Writing in the current issue of In These Times, American History scholar Theo Anderson follows the modern political conservative movement’s rise to power from the founding of the Heritage Foundation in 1973 through Donald Trump’s inauguration … Continue reading
Bibi Blocks BDS Backers At Israel’s Borders
by James M. Wall On Monday, March 6, the Israeli Knesset passed a travel ban which strongly resembles a U.S. travel ban scheduled to go into effect the middle of next week. The U.S. ban is a second effort by the Trump White … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Israel, Middle East, Netanyahu, Palestinians
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The NFL Star Who Refused to Shine For Israel
by James M. Wall When I learned of the courageous decision made recently by Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett, I remembered my 1973 trip to Israel. Bennett (right) made headlines when he pulled out of an Israeli government-sponsored trip to Israel designed … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media, Palestinians
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Trump Delivers “A Deportation Force on Steroids”
by James M. Wall In response to a question about Antisemitism, President Trump summarized his answer with one of his typical non sequitur closings: “you’re going to see a whole lotta love.” What we are getting from Trump is not even remotely … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Obama, Politics and Elections
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Trump to Bibi and Abbas: “I’m With You Fellers”
by James M. Wall On Wednesday, President Donald Trump approached the waning days of his first month in office with what he hoped would be a significant foreign policy event, his first White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. … Continue reading
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in us”
by James M. Wall The Merriam-Webster dictionary has just announced that more than one thousand new words have been added to its latest edition. One of those new words–snollygoster–arrives just in time to apply to Republican members of Congress, who shut down Senator Elizabeth … Continue reading
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Politics and Elections
Tagged Coretta Scott King, Elizabeth Warren
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White House Islamophobia Dictates Trump Policy
we’ve never witnessed a political aide move as brazenly to consolidate power as Stephen Bannon — nor have we seen one do quite so much damage so quickly to his putative boss’s popular standing or pretenses of competence. Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Middle East, Middle East Politics, Stephen Brannon
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