Dagens Nyheter, major Swedish daily, April 24, 2024 quotes Dr. Zunes on growing protests and opposition.
Category: Gaza
Biden Claims to Support a Two-State Solution but his Policies Say Otherwise
Truthout April 17, 2024: Recent initiatives by the Palestinian government to revive their application for UN membership are testing the U.S. claim it supports a “two-state solution” [source]
Interview: The US, Israel, and Palestine
March 4, 2024: The United States, Israel, and Palestine: 54-minute interview for the Santita Jackson Show
Lecture: US policy towards Israel/Palestine
March 5, 2024: US policy towards Israel/Palestine:
90-minute video at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
U.S. Has Redefined ‘Human Shields’ to Enable Israel’s Slaughter of Gaza Civilians
Truthout March 22, 2024: The civilian death rate from the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip is the highest of any conflict since the 1994 Rwanda genocide [yet] Biden has vetoed multiple UN Security Council resolutions, rejected calls by progressives to condition military aid, and used emergency powers to bypass public and congressional oversight to send additional bombs and missiles… [source]
Why Young Voters Aren’t With Biden on Israel
The Progressive March 15, 2024: Young people are progressive, more aware of racism and a rightwing Israel, and increasingly turning away from Biden (72% of voters 18-29 disapprove of his handling of the war)… [source]
U.S. Support for Israel Bolsters its Own Interests
The Progressive February 27, 2024: The Biden Administration cast its third veto in four months to block a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, one of forty-eight vetoes in which U.S. was the only dissenting vote… Congress rarely questions the more than $3 billion in military aid sent annually to Israel… far more than to any other country… [source]
Interviews February 2024: Israel’s Gaza War
- Watch the video: Four-minute segment on Al Jazeera English regarding hints Biden may finally be pressuring Netanyahu to suspend the bombing in Gaza.
- Ten-minute interview for Singaporean news station on the situation in Gaza
- Listen or download: Zunes’ 18-minute interview begins at the 41-minute mark, on US policy on Israel/Palestine. WBAI-FM in New York (Pacifica network).
- Two interviews for KTVU, a network-affiliated television station in Oakland on:
* US veto of the ceasefire resolution before the UN Security Council.
* President Biden’s meeting in San Francisco with the widow and daughter of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. - Biden’s widening war in the Middle East 02/03/2024 (Swedish)
- US 2024 presidential election 02/10/2024 (Swedish)
Lecture and Interviews: Israel’s Gaza War, January 2024
Jan. 11, 2024: Santa Cruz lecture, “one of my best and most comprehensive–which examines the U.S. role in Israel/Palestine, historical and present, and what we can learn from it.” Sponsored by Resource Center for Nonviolence
Also this discussion with Silvia Morales, director of the Resource Center for Nonviolence about Israel, Palestine, U.S. policy on Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara, and the role of peace and human rights activists: Part I & Part II.
And a short interview for a Singapore television network
on Israel’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Lebanon.
Lecture: US Policy and Israel’s Gaza War at USF
December 4, 2023 University of San Francisco Lecture on
how US policy produced the current ongoing tragedy
[1 hour, 26 min.; source is no longer available.]
Interviews: Israel’s War on Gaza:
October-December 2023
- On Al-Jazeera English: Biden’s policy on Israel’s war on Gaza (Zunes begins at the four-minute mark.)
- KPFA and affiliated stations [Source link currently unavailable.
45-minutes, Zunes starts just before the ten-minute mark.
There’s ten minutes of failed Internet, but then he returns.] - Al-Jazeera English: U.S. support for Israel’s terror bombing of Gaza is not unique, given it has long supported other allies committing war crimes.
Israel’s War on Gaza: 11 Zunes’ articles published Oct. 7-Dec. 31, 2023
- Applying International Law to Israel’s War and Hamas’ Attack; Yesmagazine.org/Trithout Oct. 18, 2023 [Video & Transcript]
- Political Costs of Biden’s Support for Israel’s War Mount [Source]
- U.S. Attacks on the ICJ are a Declaration of Empire [Source]
- Biden’s Gaza Failure Could Cost Democrats 2024 Election [Source]
- Scholars Weigh in on Gaza-Israel Conflict Counterpunch interview of Professors Zunes and international legal scholar Richard Falk [Princeton] on Israel, Gaza, and U.S. policy, 10/13/2023 [Source]
- How U.S. Policy Failures Have Helped Hamas [Source]
- Hamas, Israel and the U.S. Have Learned Nothing [Source]
- Biden’s Backing Israel War Crimes Carries on Sordid U.S. Tradition [Source]
- O Globo, Brazil’s largest newspaper, on Israel’s war on Gaza (English translation and original Portuguese transcript) [Source]
- Dr. Zunes is quoted in this Al-Jazeera article: Why are US Republicans pushing for aid to Israel but not Ukraine? [Source]
- More Articles and interviews on the Gaza Crisis
Crackdown on Palestinian Solidarity Exceeds Reagan-era Activist Repression
Truthout, Feb. 14, 2024 [source]
Historically, would-be authoritarians of various stripes have used the threat of other forms of authoritarianism to consolidate their own power. We saw this during the Cold War, when the alleged threat of communism led to everything from McCarthyism in the United States to right-wing military coups in Latin America. We are seeing this again today…
U.S. Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire and Biden’s Backing of Israel War Crimes Carries on a Sordid U.S. Tradition
U.S. Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire
Common Dreams Feb. 1, 2024
Biden’s Backing of Israel War Crimes Carries on a Sordid U.S. Tradition Truthout Oct. 30, 2023
Biden’s Gaza Failure Could Cost Democrats 2024 Election
Biden’s Failure on Gaza Could Cost Democrats the 2024 Election
The Progressive, October 26, 2024 [source]
[T]he Biden Administration and Congressional leaders of both parties are actively supporting the ongoing carnage Israel is unleashing on the residents in Gaza, opposing international calls for a ceasefire, and pledging more military aid to Israel to better enable the right-wing government’s relentless assault on that crowded urban enclave. This could have serious political repercussions at home [and did in Democrats’ historic defeat November 2024]…
How U.S. Policy Failures Helped Hamas
Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies, October 31, 2023
By Stephen Zunes [source]
Hamas, Israel and U.S. Have Learned Nothing
Scholars Weigh in on Gaza-Israel Conflict
Counterpunch interview of Professors Zunes and international legal scholar Professor Richard Falk [Princeton] on Israel, Gaza, and U.S. policy [source]
U.S. policy resulted in current ongoing tragedy
Interviews: Al Jazeera on Trump and Biden support for Israel’s war on Gaza
Al-Jazeera Video: Biden’s policy supports Israel’s war on Gaza
(Feb. 2024; Dr. Zunes begins at the four-minute mark.)
Three more quoting Dr. Zunes November 2023:
- For 20 years, this AIDS relief plan enjoyed broad US support. What changed? Nov. 14, 2023
- Israel-Hamas war updates: Al-Shifa Hospital under threat, Nov. 9, 2023
- Why are US Republicans pushing for aid to Israel but not Ukraine? Nov. 8, 2023