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Invisible lives: Iraqis in Lebanon
Beirut’s Christian suburb of Dikwaneh which is housing her and her family. Sarah fled war-torn Iraq along ... Lebanon ever since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 vary. While the Beirut office of the UN High ... Iraq. According to a UNHCR press release issued 23 March, Jordan is hosting 750,000, and Syria one ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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The Nakba, Intel, and Kiryat Gat
villages, al-Faluja and ‘Iraq al-Manshiya. While the area is well within the Green Line, Israel’s 1949-67 ... the Nakba befell al-Faluja and ‘Iraq al-Manshiya. * Stranded and surrounded, the Egyptians were in no ... two governments agreed that civilians who wished to remain in al-Faluja and ‘Iraq al-Manshiya would be ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Rachel Corrie inspired protest shuts down NY's Fifth Avenue
earlier this month. Chanting “Occupation is a crime, from Iraq to Palestine,” the protesters shut down ... Fifth Avenue for over an hour, refusing to let New York go about its business while the US war on Iraq ... occupation of Palestine. “While the world’s attention is focused on Iraq and Arabs are cast as the enemy, ...
arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Why did Israel attack Syria?
The standoff reached a head in late 2006 when oilman James Baker and his Iraq Study Group began ... lobbying for a gradual withdrawal from Iraq — presumably only after a dictator, this one more reliable, had ... during the period leading up to America’s invasion of Iraq and have been during its ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Olmert distances Israel from Iraq
advisory group, which linked the chaos in Iraq to the unresolved conflict between Israel and its ... One thing is clear to most Americansathe problems in Iraq are entirely independent of us and ... annual meet-the-press-type event — fielding questions about the recommendations by the Iraq Study Group, ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Political change in the United States? As in Israel, just different faces
policy in Iraq- and other places- is a criminal one, but because it is unprofitable. It is easy to shout ... burnt and around three thousand soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Because of their Middle East ... voters have not punished Bush because of his war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq, Palestine ...
charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Academic Boycott: Shin Bet training program highlights academic complicity with occupation
institutions after the invasion of Iraq, or Chinese academe for human rights violations.” Are these ... invasion and occupation of Iraq? Ignoring the obvious point that British academics are hardly in a position ... Palestinians while no one is punishing British academics over the occupation of Iraq. But this analogy is ...
charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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UNHCR uses high tech gear to register Palestinians in Iraq
Iraq’s Palestinians who have been left in legal limbo and largely without aid since the collapse of the ... 80,000 Palestinian refugees believed to be living in Iraq. Many of them were born here. Their parents and ... apartment block in Baghdad and secured the agreement of Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority to house them ...
arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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A "grand bargain" between Saudi Arabia and Iran?
Iran. He provides some recent context. The 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and to some extent the US invasion ... instance, gained unprecedented influence over Iraq’s post-invasion government. This led to ... has helped to feed proxy wars and chaos in Syria and Iraq and Yemen, requires us to say to our ...
Ali Abunimah - 06/19/2016 - 19:20 - 1 comment
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Weddady's Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise
history that stretches back to the invasion of Iraq, with political patronage from the Bush administration ... re-election and the invasion of Iraq. “America, under the strong, compassionate leadership of President Bush, ... Al-Suwaij was born into a Shiite family in Iraq that suffered under the regime of Saddam Hussein. When she ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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New national security adviser recently considered war to free prisoners in Iran
turmoil – perhaps surpassing the chaos unleashed in the aftermath of the Bush-Cheney war on Iraq ... the region particularly in Iraq. Trump has also pushed for the removal of US troops from Syria and ... authorize the invasion of Iraq. Trump is a racist through and through, but Democrats will risk a great deal ...
Michael F. Brown - 09/19/2019 - 19:52 - 3 comments
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Thousands of Iraqi refugees seek asylum
other Iraqis, Ahmed Kazim fled his home in Iraq when the violence became unbearable. Sectarian violence ... the northern Iraqi city of Samarra in February last year. “I wouldn’t trade Iraq for the world,” said ... “But we couldn’t stay in Iraq, so many of my family members were killed.” Ahmed’s wife and five ...
charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Trapped in no man's land
Iraq descended into new depths of civil conflict, 350 Palestinian refugees were driven out of Baghdad ... preventing any more Palestinians arriving into the no man’s land. The worsening violence in Iraq, however, ... the refugees, the trigger for their attempt to leave Iraq was the extreme violence they had suffered. ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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The resistance crescent and the end of US domination
Iran through Iraq and west to Lebanon. This became an oft-repeated expression used by many to highlight ... midst of the US aggression against Iraq, the idea of a Shiite crescent reflected Washington’s cynical ... installed an explicitly sectarian system in Iraq and attempted to exploit and fuel sectarian sentiment in ...
Ali Abunimah - 11/15/2023 - 05:04
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US seen in policy retreat
Tehran diplomatically in an effort to garner Iranian cooperation in Iraq. “The US has obviously changed ... after almost five years in Iraq. “The US went from launching a quick war for regime change to ... maintaining a long-term occupation of Iraq,” said Salaama. “Now, despite new counter-insurgency strategies, ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Aid for Palestinians suffers due to focus on Iraq
a potential conflict in Iraq. Mr Hansen also issued a stark warning that UNRWA ’s emergency activities in the ... threatened because donors are holding back to see what is needed in Iraq.” “The uncertainty on the political ... the need too great.” Related Links: UNRWA Electronic Iraq ...
arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Palestinians shouldn't be covered in "blanket of sadness," says poet
other voice,” she says. “There is no Iraq now, there is just a thing torn in pieces … when I see the ... map, I don’t see my Iraq, I just see bloodshed.” As well as the violence which cost her home and her ... husband, al-Sheikh also stresses the danger for women trying to speak out in post-invasion Iraq. “All the ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 1 comment
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US Jews tilt rightwards on Israel
over both the war in Iraq and the “war on terror” as conducted by the administration of President ... believe that Washington should not have gone to war in Iraq — up two percentage points from 14 months ago ... — and 76 percent believe that US efforts to bring stability and order to Iraq are going either ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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NPR allows dubious, sensational claims to stand
Al-Qaida-linked Lebanon-based Palestinian extremists had obtained deadly VX from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, smuggled ... that any terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaida obtained VX or any other nerve agent from Iraq. The ... States to spy on Iraq. According to FAIR, “at the behest of a senior U.S. government official, he ...
Ali Abunimah - 12/01/2012 - 06:41
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Obama's prizes for Israel are not "pressure"
by El Al aircraft (recall that when en route to bomb Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981, Israeli ... should no more be rewarded for ending settlement construction than Iraq should have been rewarded for ... withdrawing from Kuwait after Iraq invaded in 1990. While today US-occupied, war-torn Iraq is still paying ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
