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ABOUT MECIC…The
Middle East Cultural and Information Center (MECIC) is an independent,
non-partisan educational and cultural organization seeking to promote
understanding of Middle Eastern Issues in general, and the Palestinian
issue in particular. Formed initially in 1989 to support the Intifadah
and the Palestinian people in their historic struggle for
self-determination and statehood, MECIC has continued its activities
through the Gulf War of 1991, the Al Aqsa Intifadah, and the present
tragedy in Iraq.
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Israeli records confirm theft of
land
Published: November 21, 2006
JERUSALEM, Nov. 20 — An Israeli advocacy group, using maps
and figures leaked from inside the government, says that 39
percent of the land held by Israeli settlements in the
occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians.
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The second most dangerous country: the United States
41% of faculty members in U.S.
universities see the United States and Israel combined as the
greatest threats to the world. For humanities faculty, 56% list the
U.S. and Israel, compared to just 41% who list China, Russia, and
Iran combined.
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The Case for
Boycotting Israel
Boycott
Now!
By VIRGINIA TILLEY
It
is finally time. After years of internal arguments, confusion, and
dithering, the time has come for a full-fledged international
boycott of Israel. Good cause for a boycott has, of course, been in
place for decades, as a raft of initiatives already attests.
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This
draft shows who is running America's policy... Israel
By Robert Fisk
You could almost hear the Lebanese
groan at this draft resolution, a document of such bias and
mendacity that a close Lebanese friend read carefully through it
yesterday, cursed and uttered the immortal question: "Don't these
bastards learn anything from history?"
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United Nations v. United States
Phyllis Bennis
November 28, 2006
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her most
recent book is Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the U.N.
Defy U.S. Power.
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Descent Into Moral Barbarism
By Norman Finkelstein
As Israel's military bravely fires away shells and missiles to
lay waste the fragile human and physical infrastructure of
Lebanon, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, waging battle on
a second front to legitimize Israel's criminal aggression,
bravely fires away op-eds from his foxhole at Martha's Vineyard
to lay waste the fragile infrastructure of international law.
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Noam Chomsky on Israel, Lebanon and Palestine
By Kaveh Afrasiabi of Global Interfaith Peace
Do you agree with the argument that Israel's military offensive in
Lebanon is "legally and morally justified?" - Noam Chomsky: The invasion
itself is a serious breach of international law, and major war crimes
are being committed as it proceeds. There is no legal justification.
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THE ISRAEL LOBBY
AND
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
John J. Mearsheimer
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
Stephen M. Walt
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
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Palestine Fact
Sheet
From time immemorial
the history of Palestine is written by the victorious
invaders of the contemporary period. Likewise, the current
history of Palestine is written by Israel and its agents in the
west with total disregard to the Palestinian plight. It is hoped that
this link
will provide the reader with a more accurate historical perspective of
Palestine.
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