Protesters Call On US To End Israel Aid As AIPAC Conference Set To Kick Off
Source: i24 News
nti-Israel protesters descended on Washington on Sunday, as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference was set to kick off.
A group of around 300 pro-Palestinian activists gathered brandishing flags and placards, protesting the conference and calling on the US to end aid to Israel.
The AIPAC policy conference, the largest pro-Israel talk shop in America, is set to open later on Sunday, and will address a range of issues including US-Israel relations, the Iranian nuclear deal, the Syrian civil war and peace talks, the threat of the Islamic State, and the latest developments athroughout the Middle East.
Israeli Ambassador in the United States Ron Derner will open the event, which runs from March 20-22, later on Sunday.
Other speakers slated to address the AIPAC conference include senior House leaders from both parties, among them House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, and major party presidential candidates.
Read more: http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/106866-160320-anti-defamation-league-to-redirect-trump-donations-to-anti-bias-education
zentrum
(9,865 posts).for not going.
riversedge
(70,311 posts)TowneshipRebellion
(92 posts)nt.
onenote
(42,769 posts)Because you'd be very wrong about that.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)I've little doubt that Bernie wants a solution that doesn't favor one side over the other and that he is does not support the way AIPAC operates.
Whether he supports these particular protesters is not the point and of course I'm implying nothing along those lines.
someone was wanting that you were though
Bernie has the answers to most all of our and the worlds questions and my hope is he'll be able to implement them in due time.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)(snip)
Okay, pop quiz. Why do we give nearly three billion dollars a year to Israel?
So she can defend herself.
Wrong. Its just a way of funneling a subsidy to U.S. arms manufacturers, which is where Israel, by quiet understanding, turns around and spends the money. But no one would support it if we called it Raytheon aid. Foreign aid just sounds so much more aboveboard.
It's fiction, of course, but there are a lot of topical, current events references. Given his résumé, Eisler may know what he's talking about. According to Wikipedia:
After completing law school, Eisler joined the CIA, where he trained for three years afterward and held a covert position with the Directorate of Operations.[3] In 1992, he resigned after becoming disillusioned with the bureaucracy and joined the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Apart from the arm's "donations", there's Aid to Israel, which is a way to virtually launder money to fund various American candidates, so the whole round--robin system will be kept afloat.
It takes a lot of guts for an American politician to stand up to or snub AIPAC.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)snip
The dramatic increase of US aid while Israel violated official US policy against military occupation was a declaration to the world that where the Jewish state was concerned politics outweighed principle.
much more at link
zentrum
(9,865 posts)For both countries. Israel and Palestine. It's a terrible situation.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)One facet of the book that's both fun and a little annoying is that many of the characters are named after real-life journalists. For example, there's a bar owner named Taibbi, an FBI agent named Froomkin, and even a private investigator named Juan Cole. Nice little "Easter eggs" for progressive political news junkies.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
but if you read actual journalistic analyses of the whole thingit's exactly the same story. It's a known and described phenomenon.
aranthus
(3,385 posts)Mostly it's to subsidize aircraft manufacturers (and keep the Israelis fro developing their own planes that would then compete with ours on the world market).
7962
(11,841 posts)People would buy their aircraft. A few billion is nothing compared to what jets sell for
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)ericson00
(2,707 posts)Bernie is pandering to them. Shame on him.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)Obama has made his statements. See the link above.
Lets hear from Biden and Clinton at the AIPAC.
http://www.policyconference.org/
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)I'm anti welfare & anti-aparthied towards Israel. When they stop stealing from & killing people then maybe I'll care what Israel needs.
think
(11,641 posts)The 2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters were seven shellings at UNRWA facilities in the Gaza Strip which took place between 21 July and 3 August 2014 during the Israeli-Gaza conflict. The incidents were the result of artillery, mortar or aerial missile fire which struck on or near the UNRWA facilities being used as shelters for Palestinians, and as a result at least 44 civilians, including 10 UN staff, died. During the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, many Palestinians fled their homes after warnings by Israel or due to air strikes or fighting in the area. An estimated 290,000 people (15% of Gaza's population) took shelter in UNRWA schools.
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UN Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of United Nations, condemned the Jubalia Camp incident at the school, describing it as "unjustifiable".[73] After the 29 July incident, he pointed out that the precise location of this school had been communicated to the Israeli military authorities 17 times. He said: "Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children"[74] Ban Ki-moon described the attack on Rafah school as a "moral outrage and a criminal act" and called for those responsible for the "gross violation of international humanitarian law" to be held accountable.[75]
UNRWA - Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the UNRWA, said: "Our shelters are overflowing. Tens of thousands may soon be stranded in the streets of Gaza, without food, water and shelter if attacks on these areas continue."[76] "We have moved beyond what humanitarian action alone can deal with. This is now the time for political action. It is the time for accountability," he said. Krähenbühl described the Jubalia Camp incident as "probably one of the most tragic protection failures that the international community has witnessed." Asked to explain the scale of the civilian suffering to an Arab news station, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness simply burst into tears. "We have reached breaking point; our staff are being killed, our shelters overflowing", he adds.[77]
USA A White House spokesman, said: "We are extremely concerned that thousands of internally displaced Palestinians who have been called on by the Israeli military to evacuate their homes are not safe in UN-designated shelters in Gaza." They continued by condemning "those responsible for hiding weapons in United Nations facilities in Gaza."[78] US State Department said in a statement that the US is "appalled" by the "disgraceful shelling" outside the school in Rafah and urged Israel to do more to avoid civilian casualties.[75]
France Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Israeli military attack that rocked a United Nations school in Jubalia in Gaza's biggest refugee camp.[79]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israeli_shelling_of_UNRWA_Gaza_shelters
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)that Israel is always the victim of the evil Palestinians. A simplistic and false narrative constantly promoted in the media.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)to the Palestinian side, and they're turned off.
PoliticalPothead
(220 posts)How many of them get their information from the mainstream media without doing any research themselves? I'm willing to bet that most of the people who say they're pro-Israel have never even heard the Palestinian side.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)and the older people still go on Facebook and the comments sections on other pages and also see the anti-I side.
This is America where unlike Europe, we don't appease Islamist sentiments/thought. America is among the least anti-Semitic nations on the face of the planet. Hence, why no one buys the anti-Israel case.
PoliticalPothead
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The truth about Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine is spreading on college campuses, and it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)An apartheid country that is slowly stealing another country like a snake swallowing a rat.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)the West, where he is campaigning, but AIPAC refused that offer.
Not totally sure, but he had planed the trip to the western states
way ahead of time knowing the primary schedule.
If the man is not afraid to talk to an evangelical college, I doubt
he would make an excuse to AIPAC. Besides, he is rather proud
of his jewish background, and has made no secret of his disagreements
with Bibi.
7962
(11,841 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)issue a foreign policy statement and then a Foreign Policy Plan at an appropriate time.
http://www.policyconference.org/
rgbecker
(4,834 posts)Pay attention to what the candidates tell the AIPAC and you will learn where your tax money goes and where your kids will be killing and dying in the years ahead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They could be "anti-Right Wing slaughter of innocent Palestinians".
We saw this during the Iraq war. Anyone who had a problem with the invasion must have wanted to have sex with Saddam.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)think
(11,641 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Yes - I'm sure Washington is going to jump through hoops to satisfy the 15% of Americans that sympathize with the Palestinians. Bernie already sent remarks saying he was campaigning and couldn't attend and offered to speak by remote (unlike what so many on DU are pretending - that he's dissing them by not attending which is laughable).