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Susan
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It seems that the current attempts by Bush to invade Iraq would show that the U.S. is hugely biased in favor of Israel, since Iraq is a possible threat to Israel, not the U.S.
Do you think Americans will see the connection, how U.S. does Israel's bidding, and therefore shows the extreme bias?
Is that, or other similar situations where the U.S. is following Israeli "requests" addressed in the book?
Thanks.
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American policy is not only bias, the US and Israel are really in alliance
on this issue. If you look at the administration, we find that the proponents of a war against Iraq are the top civilians in the defense establishment who tend be Zionists/Likudists and neo conservatives such as Richard Pearl and Paul Wolfawitz and others. Yet there is a good deal of dissension within the top echelons of the republican party. People such as Dick Army, senator Chuck Hagel, Scorcroft and even Henry Kissinger all expressed reservations about the impact of this war on relations with allies and the possibility that the US will be bogged down for years. It is not clear that Bush has a mandate to go to war. It is important to expose the coordination between Sharon and the Zionist in the Bush administration particularly there are reports in the Israeli press that corroborate the well known story about Israel’s intention to use such a war as a cover for the expulsion of the Palestinians from the west bank.
Yes, there are at least a couple of chapters that discuss the evolution of the special relations between the US and Israel. There is a full coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and as well as the war scenario of the present time. Some of these issues were discussed in my 1995 book titled the Obstruction of Peace. If you do a search in Google.com using my last name you get reference to that book.
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Naim
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There seems to be some talk in the media that groups within the pentagon are trying to isolate Saudi Arabia and Egypt in US foreing policy although they have been traditionally allies of US. Why would such ideas be floating around in policy circles and is the Bush Adminstratiopn likley to take them seriously.
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As I mentioned in the answer to Susan’s question, the neo conservative Zionist have also been behind the attempt to represent Saudi Arabia as a terrorist state. There was a report in the Washington post Aug. 6 entitled “Briefing depicting Saudi's as enemies”. It talks about a commissioned report by Richard Pearl to Rand Corporation analyst Murawiec. Richard Pearl gave him this assignment, so in a sense Richard Pearl was attempting to solicit that type of response. The strategy from the Zionist in the pentagon is to completely cut the US's connection from the Arab world and make Israeli the sole strategic bastion in the region.
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Mostansar
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Why do you think so many Muslim organizations in America and other countries support American policies when the obvious facts state that America is not a fair and a just broker?
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Some organizations do and some don't. The ones that do believe that to be a loyal citizen of the US mistakenly believe that you must support domestic and foreign policies. So one does not have to be in the same trench standing shoulder to shoulder with Bush in his so called war on terror to prove him/herself as a good American. Indeed many non-immigrants, Anglo-Saxons and Jewish Americans oppose Bush's war policy and his trashing of civil liberties.
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Rachel
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Do you think most Americans are/will be concerned to realize just how prejudiced the US is in dealing w/Israel versus Palestinians and other Arab countries?
For example, the US wants to withhold funding to Egypt because of the issue with the human rights activist, yet ignores the aggregious human rights violations Israel commits consistently and often.
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Most Americans just do not know about American collusion with Israel. What we need to do is to double our efforts to let Americans know these facts and to let them know that they are accomplices in war crimes against their will since they pay taxes. So if they actually get the facts then most Americans are good people and will be concerned.
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Yaseen
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are you having any problems getting your book published because of the pro Israel lobby? do you think they will try to counter the information with your book? i read about the problems Paul Findley had with his book They Dare to Speak Out.
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There are no problems in getting the book published because it will be published according to my contract with publisher which is interested in disseminating the views and analysis in the book.
I do expect that the Israeli lobby will try to counter the information and views in the book since they tend to be fanatically rigorous about responding to everything they do not agree with. This will not be the first time.
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nagi
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do you think the palestinian struggle will be more effective( conviencing world of their just struggle) by reverting to civil disobediance.
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I think that the earlier Intifada of 1987 was more effective partly because it was anchored in civil disobedience. However it must be kept in mind that during the current Intifada neither Barak nor Sharon allowed it to remain as a peaceful uprising. Countless human rights organizations condemned Israel in 2000-2001 for having used "excessive force". Hence there was no alternative for the Palestinians except to use weapons and that is indeed an Israeli strategy to make it easier for them to commit the war crimes they committed and to enforce the draconian measures intended to make the Palestinians leave the country.
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Sakinah
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As salaamu alaikum
1. What issues are covered in your upcoming book - is the book's focus on what happened to the most recent negotiations w/Barak?
2. How do you plan to publicize your book and get Americans and others to read it and come to a more accurate understanding of United STates involvement?
Thanks.
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1- Essentially the book is a diplomatic history of the Arab Israeli conflict during the past 35 years with emphasis on the US’s role in conflict resolutions. It surveys most of the ten or so US so called peace plans, non of which had brought the Palestinians or Israelis close to peace, and tries to demonstrate the diplomatic failure was as much a US responsibly as it was the result of Israeli intransigence hence the title of dishonest broker. So the book traces American foreign policy from the Lyndon Johnson adminstration in late 1960's all the way up to Bush II. It has a full chapter Camp David 2000 which dispels the widely publicized lie about Barak’s "generous offer".
2- The publicity is actually a professional task which is normally undertaken by the publisher. Hopefully sympathetic organizations would assist calling attention to it.
