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Archives for May 2021

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Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali “I’ve Killed a Lot of Arabs” Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Why proposed new Israeli PM, extreme-right Naftali “I’ve Killed a Lot of Arabs” Bennett, is even worse for Palestinians than far right Netanyahu

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a prime time address on Sunday evening, right wing extremist Israeli politician Naftali Bennett announced that he intended to join a government of national unity, including left wing and centrist parties, which would unseat long-serving Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The coalition was mainly put together by Yair Lapid of […]

Congress
Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

Mitch McConnell, Shepherd of Shame: Taking Names for a New, Deeper Circle of Hades

H. Scott Prosterman

Mitch McConnell will go down in history as one of the most destructive men in American History. If obstructing all the positive legislation and court nominations of President Barack Obama wasn’t enough; if enabling all the horrors and cruelties of President Donald Trump wasn’t enough; if brazenly changing Senate rules to undermine . . . […]

Israel/ Palestine
Dear UN Human Rights Council: Commission of Inquiry needed on Israel/Palestine to advance accountability, address root causes

Dear UN Human Rights Council: Commission of Inquiry needed on Israel/Palestine to advance accountability, address root causes

Human Rights Watch

HRW statement to Human Rights Council Special Session Human Rights Watch – (Geneva, May 27, 2021) Once again, this Council gathers to address the latest cycle of violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. We could go through the statistics – hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of children, killed in Israeli airstrikes; at least […]

Asian-Americans
Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis for the U.S. abroad and racial prejudice back at home

Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis for the U.S. abroad and racial prejudice back at home

The Conversation

By Susan H. Kamei | – Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guards and behind barbed wire – and then being required to join the military to fight for the nation that had locked up you and your family. That’s what happened in a […]

Featured
Mideast Sisyphus: In Aftermath of Brutal Israeli Bombing, Palestinians in Gaza are Thirsty, in the Dark, and lack Medicine, and Thousands are Homeless

Mideast Sisyphus: In Aftermath of Brutal Israeli Bombing, Palestinians in Gaza are Thirsty, in the Dark, and lack Medicine, and Thousands are Homeless

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Every time Israel bombs Gaza into smithereens, it is left to others to try to rebuild. The European Union, Qatar, and even the Biden administration are offering aid. (The US is giving a piddling $150 million; even tiny Qatar is pledging $500 million.) The Greek myths contain the story of […]

Democratic Party
Rep. Cori Bush’s impact on the US Israel-Palestine debate

Rep. Cori Bush’s impact on the US Israel-Palestine debate

Mondoweiss

By David Warren:

Israel/ Palestine
How the UN Can Help End Israeli Apartheid and Persecution

How the UN Can Help End Israeli Apartheid and Persecution

Foreign Policy in Focus

By Louis Charbonneau | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The latest outbreak of violence in Gaza is depressingly familiar. Scores of civilians, including children, were killed and injured. As usual, Israeli airstrikes in heavily populated areas of Gaza claimed the most victims, although Hamas rockets launched into Israel also killed and injured civilians. […]

African-Americans
100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfather

100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfather

The Conversation

By Gregory B. Fairchild | – When Viola Fletcher, 107, appeared before Congress in May 2021, she called for the nation to officially acknowledge the Tulsa race riot of 1921. I know that place and year well. As is the case with Fletcher – who is one of the last living survivors of the massacre, […]

Arab World
Why Jared Kushner’s ‘Abraham Accords’ did not produce Israel-Palestine Peace and are increasingly Irrelevant

Why Jared Kushner’s ‘Abraham Accords’ did not produce Israel-Palestine Peace and are increasingly Irrelevant

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jared Kushner/ Trump plan for Israel-Palestine had some basic premises. The first was that the U.S. could act punitively toward the Palestinians with no consequences. The second was that the Arab states were so afraid of Iran that they would throw the Palestinians under the bus and make an […]

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