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Friday December 16, 2011
So no longer is she only alleging that Iran said things they actually didn’t, but now we know “without a shadow of doubt” that the attack will happen, unless we do something about it. That’s the sort of lying that makes the Iraq war propaganda of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld seem like honest straight-talk by comparison. Read More »
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Wednesday November 09, 2011
Since surely no AIPAC National Council Member would ever be so foolish as to falsely impersonate an “Arab Palestinian” in an effort to afford undue credibility to her condescending lecturing of Arabs, Pinkus must really be an Arab Palestinian! Read More »
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Friday September 16, 2011
The U.S. and Israel are having a panicked reaction to this initiative. The Obama Administration has been clear in stating that should the Palestinians try to push their bid through to the UN Security Council, the U.S. will veto the proposal. Read More »
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Wednesday September 14, 2011
Tomorrow evening, hundreds of people are expected to march from the State Department to the White House, in a show of support for Palestinians’ bid for UN membership, greater democracy in the Middle East, and an end to US military aid to Israel. Read More »
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Tuesday September 13, 2011
“Today we commemorate 18 years since the launch of a process that was supposed to lead us to freedom and independence. It was meant to last only for a transitional period of five years. Unfortunately, almost two decades later, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is entrenched and Israel’s occupation has turned into de facto annexation" Read More »
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Friday September 02, 2011
This is like a man wrongly accusing a woman of stealing his wife’s purse, but rather than apologizing upon realizing that the woman was in fact holding her own purse, says instead, “you idiot, you must have stolen your own purse.” Read More »
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Tuesday July 12, 2011
A couple of days ago, the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 268 with a vote of 407-6-13. As previously noted in an AAI action alert, H. Res. 268 is an anti-Palestinian bill that was introduced by Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA), blaming the failure of the peace process entirely on the Palestinians (ignoring Israel’s steps that have rendered productive negotiations impossible), prohibiting assistance to the Palestinian national unity government, and calling for vetoing Palestinian efforts for recognition by the UN. Notwithstanding its distortion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the bill had collected 356 cosponsors by the time it passed. Read More »
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Thursday December 16, 2010
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Howard Berman (D-CA) brought to the floor and passed a resolution “condemning unilateral declarations of a Palestinian state." But what is really worth highlighting in this case was that a Congresswoman who reluctantly supported the resolution made arguments about its counterproductive nature. Read More »
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