US Support for Israel Bolsters its Own Interests: Why the United States arms and funds Israel in light of widespread domestic and international opposition. The Progressive 02/27/2024
Category: Middle East
Middle East Overview
Israel’s Gaza War: 7 Interviews February 2024
- 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
- An 18-minute interview for WBAI-FM in New York on U.S. policy and Israel/Palestine (segment begins at the 41-minute mark)
- 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)
Israel’s Gaza War Lecture & Interviews January 2024
Jan. 24: Santa Cruz lecture –one of my best and most comprehensive–which examines the U.S. role in Israel/Palestine, both historically and in the present, and what we can learn from it
Discussion with Silvia Morales, director of the Resource Center for Nonviolence about Israel, Palestine, U.S. policy, and the role of peace and human rights activists: Interview for a podcast on U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara: Part I & Part II.
Short interview for a Singapore television network on Israel’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Lebanon:
US Policy and Israel’s Gaza War: USF Lecture
Lecture at the University of San Francisco on how US policy has resulted in the current ongoing tragedy 12/04/2023 (1 hour, 26 min.)
Israel’s War on Gaza: 3 TV & Radio interviews October-December 2023
- On Al-Jazeera English: Biden’s policy on Israel’s war on Gaza
(My segment begins at the four-minute mark.) - 45-minute Interview for KPFA and affiliated stations
(My segment starts just before the ten-minute mark.
There’s a ten-minute Internet failed, but then I return.) - Al-Jazeera English: U.S. support for Israel’s terror bombing
of Gaza is not unique, given how Washington has supported other allies committing war crimes as well.
Israel’s War on Gaza: Ten Zunes’ articles published Oct. 7-Dec. 31, 2023
Political Costs of Biden’s Support for Israel’s War Mount
U.S. Attacks on the ICJ are a Declaration of Empire
Biden’s Gaza Failure Could Cost Democrats 2024 Election
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
How U.S. Policy Failures Have Helped Hamas
Hamas, Israel and the U.S. Have Learned Nothing
Biden’s Backing Israel War Crimes Carries on Sordid U.S. Tradition
O Globo, Brazil’s largest newspaper, on Israel’s war on Gaza (Portuguese transcript)
Quoted in Al-Jazeera article on Republicans’ support for military aid for Israeli occupation and terror bombing while opposing aid to Ukraine.
13 House Democrats Call for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
US Actions in Yemen Helped Create Current Crisis
The Progressive 02/06/2024.
Plus Four Background Articles:
- Powerful Nonviolent Resistance to Armed Conflict in Yemen 2015 article on nonviolent resistance by Yemenis against Houthis’ takeover:
- How the U.S. Contributed to Yemen’s Crisis A more detailed overview of U.S. efforts to thwart Yemen’s democratic revolution, also from 2015
- Yemen On The Edge A critical overview of Obama administration policy during the midst of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising:
- Yemen: The Latest U.S. Battleground A 2010 article on the U.S. bombing of Yemen against alleged Al-Qaeda activists:
Crackdown on Palestinian Solidarity Exceeds Reagan-era Activist Repression
Truthout 02/14/2024
Biden’s Backing of Israel War Crimes Carries on a Sordid U.S. Tradition
Biden’s Gaza Failure Could Cost Democrats 2024 Election
How U.S. Policy Failures Helped Hamas
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
U.S. policy resulted in current ongoing tragedy
Biden supports Israel’s war on Gaza
Al-Jazeera Video: Biden’s policy supports Israel’s war on Gaza
(My segment begins at the four-minute mark.)
Middle East Crisis Webinar
Middle East Crisis Webinar with Dr. Stephen Zunes,
Steve Chase and Michael Beer Dec. 6, 2023 (Audio)
Two-State Solution: KPFA
45-minute Interview for KPFA and affiliated stations
(11/17/2023. My segment starts at 9:50 mark.
There’s a ten-minute Internet gap, but then I return.)
Bipartisan Bill for Middle East Peace Will Enable Dictatorships and Occupation
This bill could be seen as part of the decades-long tradition of the US propping up Arab dictatorships suppressing pro-democracy struggles while then justifying its support for the Israeli occupation on the grounds that Israel is “the sole democracy in the Middle East.” This legislative initiative perpetuates the… [FULL LINK]
KBBF Speaking of Palestine: The Occupations of Western Sahara and Palestine
An interview with Professor Stephen Zunes on the occupation of Western Sahara and much more, plus Palestine Update and some poems by Naomi Shihab Nye. Professor Zunes’ new book is Western Sahara War, Nationalism & Conflict Resolution. Sources include: stephenzunes.org, +972, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Friends of Wadi Faquin, Taayush Movement Report, Amnesty International. February 2022 [FULL LINK]
Democrats Attack Amnesty Report on Israel to Justify US Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
This is indicative of the Democratic Party’s shift to the right on foreign policy in recent decades… [FULL LINK]