name: Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Comments and thoughts of an American Muslim on US Foreign policy in the Middle East and the so-called War on Terror,examining the contradictions from a perspective of justice, fairness and human rights.
A Special Relationship: The US and Israel
30 June, 2008
Merchants for the Angel of Death
07 May, 2008
Insanity Is
06 March, 2008
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
– Albert Einstein.
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Gaza...And the Siege Goes On
25 January, 2008
“The closure of the Gaza power plant, in addition to Israel's continuing tightened siege of the Gaza Strip, will have a catastrophic effect on the 1.5 million residents of Gaza, who are already suffering chronic shortages of fuel, medicine and some basic food stuffs. The Director of Gaza's main Shiffa hospital describes the current situation as "Potentially disastrous."”[1] (More)
The Final Solution
30 May, 2007
I was really surprised and somewhat honored to have been listed on the Masada 2000 website along with Melodye Feldman, Norman Finklstein, Noam Chomsky and other critics of the policies of the Israeli Government who are striving for peace and justice in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. To suggest that a man of my age (59) and very limited financial resources could be considered a threat to Israel is beyond absurd, yet someone out there considered my participation in protests last summer against Israel’s invasion of Lebanon to be threatening enough to take my picture and post contact information about me.
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Massacre at Beit Hanoun
20 November, 2006
During the week of 2 to 8 November, while people in the US were preoccupied with the mid-term elections, a massacre took place in Gaza, with 86 human beings killed by Israeli forces. This massacre, as well as the continuing Israeli assault on Gaza seems to go largely unnoticed by the mainstream US media.
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Asymmetrical Warfare
03 July, 2006
It is hypocrisy for the US to provide Israel with foreign military assistance funding, allowing them to carry out daily attacks on Occupied Palestinian Lands and at the same time to deny recognition of and funding to the democratically elected government of Palestine. Not only is this US policy self-defeating to US interests by creating animosity in the Arab world and elsewhere, but also it is causing a humanitarian crisis in the Occupied Territories. (More)
Unbalanced US Policy in Israel / Palestine
24 April, 2006
What would you call a nation that
1. Not only is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but also has an estimated arsenal of 200 nuclear weapons[1],
2. Kills a US citizen engaged in peaceful protest and denies any responsibility[2],
3. Attacks, bombs and threatens other countries in its vicinity[3],
4. Acquires territory from neighboring countries by military force[4], and
5. Kills leaders of the people in those occupied lands by means of missiles from helicopter gunships[5]?
I would call such a nation a "terrorist" nation, and US tax dollars fund that nation. Its name is Israel.
The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
10 April, 2006
The Israeli siege against the Palestinian People continues despite all the fanfare of the recent Israeli “withdrawal.
The Recent Hamas Victory
06 February, 2006
In the United States, there is much hand-wringing as a result of the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections on Jan. 25, 2006. The US now must decide how to relate diplomatically to a democratically-elected government whose majority members belong to a party the US considers as “terrorist.