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Friday October 12, 2012
By Emily Jabareen
In what could be considered an archival gem for policy buffs and fans of President Kennedy alike, a letter was unearthed documenting John F. Kennedy’s early thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More »
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Friday October 12, 2012
AAI and the Arab American Cultural & Community Center (ACC) will be hosting a town hall entitled “Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A U.S. Policy Imperative” tonight at 7:00pm. The event will focus on the latest political developments regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and explore what role the United States can and should play to overcome the numerous obstacles that are keeping a viable peace agreement from being achieved. Read More »
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Thursday September 27, 2012
While many political speeches can be contradicted by unmentioned facts, Netanyahu’s was one of those rare speeches that actively contradict themselves in the course of making their central argument. Read More »
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Wednesday September 26, 2012
Today brought the news that President Abbas met with Dershowitz, and other Jewish community leaders, to discuss his pending speech before the UNGA and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Read More »
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Thursday September 20, 2012
By Jennine Vari
During a discussion following the film, activist Moriel Rothman was asked about the success of the Solidarity movement. He responded that even though the movement has not been able to return Palestinians to their homes, the outcome in Sheikh Jarrah has not been a failure. He calls it an “invisible success” because they have at least been able to temporarily stop the forced evictions. Wingert-Jabi and the whole production team inject a personal element into this aspect of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but there is a still a long way to go. “We just want our country back,” said Mohammad, “We just want to live our lives.” Read More »
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Thursday September 20, 2012
But this is not just about Romney being out-of-step with his own country and party on this issue, it's also about him having gotten things backwards. This attitude of unthinkingly going along with Israel’s objections to Palestinian self-determination is not the outcome of this conflict being unsolvable; it is precisely what will keep this conflict from being solved. Read More »
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Thursday September 06, 2012
There is plenty of blame to go around for the fiasco on the floor of the Democratic National Convention yesterday, where an amendment to the Party platform was forced through the convention floor despite significant vocal opposition. Read More »
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Tuesday September 04, 2012
Today, the Arab American Institute and J Street co-sponsored an event at the DNC titled "Israeli Palestinian Peace: A US Policy Imperative." The panel focused on the American political calculus behind the current impasse in Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, and prospects for furthering the peace process in a Romney and or an Obama presidency after November 6. Read More »
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Wednesday August 22, 2012
The verdict in the civil lawsuit against the State of Israel for the killing of peace activist Rachel Corrie over nine years ago will be announced August 28, 2012, at 9:00 a.m. at the Haifa District Court. Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death March 16, 2003, by an Israeli military Caterpillar D9-R bulldozer while nonviolently protesting demolition of Palestinian civilian homes in Rafah, Gaza. Read More »
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Wednesday August 01, 2012
Over the past few days, POLITICO has been doing an exceptional job covering a number of the key issues we deal with on a daily basis and which affect our community politically and socially. Among others, POLITICO has covered the fallout of the Michele Bachmann’s Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy, Mitt Romney’s latest trip to Israel, and how Islamophobia is factoring into certain congressional races. We encourage you to read the following articles which are extremely informative, and shed light on the some of the arguments being used to characterize these larger issues. Read More »
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Friday July 27, 2012
U.S. Middle East policy insider Aaron Miller predicted a major clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should Obama win a second term. Read More »
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Tuesday July 17, 2012
You could have easily missed the news reports last week highlighting the contrived controversy surrounding a New York Metro billboard advertisement about the conditions of Palestinian refugees. The ad, paid for by Henry Clifford, Chairman of The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine (CJPIP), received sharp criticism from some groups and individuals who allege that the ads are biased, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic. Read More »
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Tuesday July 17, 2012
In 48 hours Virgin will select the winning 2 minute short from 750 running this year in competition. Palestinian film maker Leila Sansour is about 200 votes shy of having this moving film about the wall in Palestine come first. This is the first year that Virgin opens the vote to the public. If her film wins it will screen for a whole year in UK cinemas and beyond running alongside other ads before commercial film screenings. Read More »
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Monday July 16, 2012
By Dan Korey
Last Monday the Levy Commission, a panel commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the legal status of settlements and outposts in the West Bank, released its final report, concluding that Israel’s presence in the West Bank does not constitute occupation, and therefore all settlements and outposts are legal under international law. Read More »
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Monday July 16, 2012
By Nama Khalil and Jeffrey Wright
On July 10, the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia held a hearing entitled “Chronic Kleptocracy: Corruption within the Palestinian Establishment.” As their title suggests, the hearings were meant to expose the corruption of Palestinian political institutions, particularly that of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Fatah Party that remains dominant within the PA. Read More »
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Friday July 13, 2012
Leila Sansour, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Open Bethlehem, is currently working on a film about Bethlehem. In the process putting it together, she shot the following 2-minute stand-alone segment in Walaja, titled “They Came in the Morning.” It’s a moving piece about a Palestinian man who lost his olive trees to the Israeli occupation, which cut them down to build the apartheid and annexation barrier around Bethlehem. Read More »
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Thursday July 12, 2012
By Dan Korey
Last week the 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted on two motions relating to divestment and boycott of Israel. Read More »
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Thursday June 28, 2012
While we are far from reaching the threshold that could force Israel to end the occupation, this Caterpillar victory is a milestone worth celebrating. Read More »
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Thursday June 28, 2012
By Nicole Abi-Esber
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire who largely bankrolled Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid, has begun to donate large sums of money to GOP super-PACs. Read More »
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Sunday June 24, 2012
Earlier this month, we wrote about a democratic primary in North Jersey between Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman, in which we noted a new standard for Arab American engagement in the political process. Jim Zogby said Pascrell’s victory was evidence of an Arab American political "coming of age," showing that the community could come out in support of a candidate, get out the vote and help get them elected. That is precisely what the community did in New Jersey's 9th district for Bill Pascrell, and it is exactly why efforts have been mounted to vilify Arab American voters in New Jersey and beyond. Read More »
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