US Policy Ignores Palestinian Human Rights

Over the years, the approach of most American policymakers toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been Israel-centric with near total disregard for the suffering endured by the Palestinian people. The architects of policy in successive US administrations have discussed the conflict as if the fate of only one party (Israel) really mattered. Israelis were treated as full human beings with hopes and fears, while Palestinians were reduced to a problem that needed to be solved so that Israelis could live in peace and security.

US Policy Ignores Palestinian Human Rights

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine

NETANYAHU PUTS A RED LINE ON AN IRANIAN BOMB CARTOON DURING A SPEECH TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SEPTEMBER 2012. SCREENSHOT.

Some day historians will scratch their heads over the fact that for the better part of 20 years U.S. presidents were engaged as a leading foreign policy question in how to restrain Iran, a small country half the world away that has not attacked the U.S., that does not have nuclear weapons, that is the seat of ancient civilization, and whose contribution to regional instability doesn’t look any worse than Israel’s or Saudi Arabia’s.

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine

As State Dep’t talks ‘2-state solution,’ reporter asks about Israeli killing of his cousin

Joe Biden’s administration has not changed Middle East policy much from Trump, but one good thing it has done is restore State Department briefings, so the public gets a window on policy-making. And a few reporters have insisted on asking questions about Palestinian human rights– as the AP’s Matt Lee did dramatically last week.

As State Dep’t talks ‘2-state solution,’ reporter asks about Israeli killing of his cousin