Sarah Zibanejadrad of our video team was at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) speech today to the America’s Future Now conference when a protest broke out. The demonstrators seemed to be yelling for a number of different causes — some held signs about America’s Israel policy, while another shouted that More…
Speaking of what Israelis will allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept from the U.S. and the Palestinians with regard to direct negotiations and a potential easing of the Gaza blockade, a New Jersey polling firm, Pechter Middle East Polls, conducted a poll in Hebrew yesterday among 500 Israelis to More…
So tomorrow Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, will visit the White House, under the shadow of last week’s Israeli raid of a flotilla intended to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. What’s on the agenda? See if you can tell from this AFP story:
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Four days later, the Senate Majority Leader responds to Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish-flagged ship shuttling aid to Gaza.
“Israel is one of our strongest and most important allies,” Reid said in a short statement, “and the United States stands firmly with Israel at this critical More…
The congressional reaction this week to Israel’s recent and deadly raid on an aid flotilla headed to Gaza has, for the most part, fit neatly into three camps: Most lawmakers have either (1) said nothing, (2) called cautiously for an investigation, or (3) staunchly More…
On Thursday, the world learned that one of the activists killed this week by Israeli commandos was a U.S. citizen. On Capitol Hill, the news seemed to raise no eyebrows at all.
Furkan Dogan, a New York-born student living in Turkey, was one of nine activists killed, according More…
The Connecticut Independent finally responded today to Israel’s attack Monday on an international aid flotilla making its way to Gaza.
Nothing shocking here.
“Israel exercised her legitimate right of self defense,” Lieberman said in a statement.
Here’s the statement just released by the House Majority Leader:
“As we wait for all the facts to emerge about Monday’s events, several things are already clear. First, the loss of life was tragic. Second, Israel – rightfully so – invoked its right to self-defense on the Mavi Marmara.”
Most of the lawmakers already weighing in on Israel’s deadly raid against an international aid flotilla headed for Gaza have come out squarely in support of Israel’s decision. Not Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
The Ohio Democrat began circulating a letter to colleagues on Wednesday condemning the attack in no uncertain More…
The Christian Science Monitor’s Ben Quinn sheds some light on the legality of Israel’s recent and deadly attack on an aid flotilla making its way to Gaza. Quinn spoke with Douglas Guilfoyle, international and maritime law expert at King’s College London University College London, More…
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