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http://972mag.com/what-neoconservatives-get-wrong-about-u-s-jews-relationship-with-israel/119642/ Neoconservative pundit Elliott Abrams  reviewed  two new books that document this phenomenon and try to explain it.  Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel  by Dov Waxman of Northeastern University and  The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews  by Michael Barnett of George Washington University both look at shifts in Israeli policy over the years and examine the effects of those policy shifts on Jews in the United States. Abrams sees both books as blaming Israel for the growing divide with the U.S. Jewish community, and he feels compelled to respond by laying the blame instead on Jews in the United States. [but] The longer the occupation continues, the less support it will find among Jews in the United States. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771646 Israeli prison authorities transferred detained prominent Palestinian parliament member Marwan Barghouti from Israel's Ramon prison to an unidentified location on Thursday, according to Palestinian sources. Barghouti, a member of Fatah's central committee, was transferred to Israel's Ramon prison five days before the most recent transfer to an undisclosed location, according to a statement by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771670     Sixteen organizations from around the world denounced travel restrictions on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) co-founder Omar Barghouti. In a public letter to their respective foreign ministers on Sunday , international academic boycott organizations publicly condemned Israel's refusal to renew Barghouti's travel documents. .. Organizations from the American, Asian, and European countries demanded freedom for Barghouti to travel and for their ministers "to impress on the Israeli government the absolute necessity of ceasing its repressive measures against Palestine's civil leaders."…     Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/05/188749/defending-israel%E2%80%99s-attacks-civilians%E2%80%94-harbinger-clinton%E2%80%99s-presidency   A fight is brewing as Democrats prepare to debate U.S. policy on Israel at their national convention in July. Bernie Sanders' appointees to the platform committee Cornel West and James Zogby plan to challenge the party establishment's uncritical support for an increasingly aggressive, right wing Israeli government… Having called for an escalated U.S. military response to ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Clinton as President might use a similar rationale to order massive U.S. air strikes on Mosul, Raqaa, and other Islamic State-controlled cities, regardless of civilian casualties. That prospect is far more worrisome than a divisive platform fight over Israel at the Democratic convention in July.     Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

5-20-2015 I Was There: Uri Avnery on Israel's new "Defense" Minister Avigdor Lieberman - Uri Avnery Tikkun http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/on-lieberman   Editor's note: Lieberman has made so many demeaning statements against Palestinians that most Israeli peace movement people see him as an overt racist and hater whose stated goal is to rid the Land of Israel of Palestinians. Uri Avnery is chair of the Israeli Peace Movement Gush Shalom in Tel Aviv]   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/05/israel-palestine-occupation-50-years-public-campaign-terror.html# June 5, 2017, will mark 50 years since the Six Day War — half a century of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The Palestinian public is very mindful and conscious of this date. Fifty years after the occupation, the leadership in Ramallah is well aware that time is running out on the patience of their people to give diplomacy a chance. .. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

This was submitted by new AIME participant Kathy Huffstetler. Thanks Kathy.   "Here is the article written by one of the participants, John Buttrick, who attended the second Faith in the Face of Empire Conference this spring.  They returned just a few weeks ago.  I think it's excellent, and I noticed he got some very positive comments from his fellow travelers.  We did some of the same things during the first conference (some differences tho), but we received the very same message which he so accurately and thoughtfully expressed." https://onthefringe2015.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/nonviolent-resistance-in-palestine/ Submitted by Kathy Huffstetler. Posted by Sam Bryan, ...