Fwd: Zunes articles #277: US aid to Israel (& more)
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From: Stephen Zunes <zunes@office.usfca.edu>
Date: May 5, 2021 at 5:55:00 PM EDT
To: Stephen Zunes <zunes@office.usfca.edu>
Subject: Zunes articles #277: US aid to Israel (& more)
My most recent article addresses a letter signed late last month by 330 members of the US House of Representatives rejecting calls by human rights advocates to condition military aid to the rightwing Israeli government on adherence to international humanitarian law:
125 Democrats Say Military Aid to Israel Shouldn't Depend on Human Rights Record
Here are other articles of mine which also address ways in which Democrats have run well to the right of their constituents regarding Israel and Palestine, aligning with Republicans to support the Israeli occupation and colonization of occupied Palestinian territories:https://truthout.org/articles/dnc-platform-condemns-bds-but-not-israels-occupation-of-palestine/
https://progressive.org/dispatches/democrats-helped-recognition-of-settlements-zunes-191121/
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-has-defended-us-allies-use-of-lethal-force-against-civilians/
https://fpif.org/more-aipac-than-j-street-kamala-harris-runs-to-the-right-on-foreign-policy/
https://progressive.org/dispatches/both-parties-pushed-trumps-reckless-action-on-jerusalem-12-6-17/
You can find other articles of mine on U.S. policy towards Israel and Palestine at: http://stephenzunes.org/category/topic/israel-and-palestine/
Regarding Western Sahara, another occupied country in which there is bipartisan support for the occupying power:
I'm interviewed for the first half hour of the respected Australian podcast The Red Line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymGvtiP9UY8Here's a link to a panel sponsored by a Tufts University group featuring me, Erik Hagen, Nazha el-Khalidi, and Hurst Hannum entitled "Africa's Last Colony: Activism, engagement, and escalation in Western Sahara." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI00nWjR5E8&list=PLXiAtg2X8Lyvo3-LHNHUDh9ALzkovMDeg&index=2
Here's an article (in which I'm quoted briefly) from the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on Trump's dangerous recognition of Morocco's illegal annexation of Western Sahara and why Biden needs to reverse it. https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/03/29/reversing-course-on-western-sahara-serves-us-national-interests/
On a related topic, some of my research is cited in this article noting how great powers such as the United States block the United Nations from enforcing its resolutions challenging violations of international law by allied regimes while pushing for vigorous action against other governments:
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28032021-violation-of-un-resolutions-is-not-uncommon-oped
Finally, this past week Biden became the first president to formally recognize the Armenian genocide, something which previous presidents had refused to do. Here's an article I wrote about ten years ago on that shameful tradition: https://fpif.org/obama_and_the_denial_of_genocide/
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