October 2003 - Stephen Zunes

Bush and Congress Ignore Breakthrough in Peace Process

October 31, 2003 By admin

Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies, October 31, 2003, by Stephen Zunes [source] In what may be the most hopeful development in years to establish a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace, an unofficial group of Palestinian and Israeli political leaders announced…

The Syrian Accountability Act and the Triumph of Hegemony

October 30, 2003 By admin

On October 15, the U.S. House of Representatives, with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, passed the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003, which imposes strict sanctions against the Syrian government. (A similar bill was introduced earlier this year in the Senate and is pending.)