UPDATE ON 3 KEY VOTES WE HIGHLIGHTED IN DEFENSE APPROPS DEBATE: Rep. Conyers’ amendment to prohibit funds for ground troops in Libya, “unless the purpose of such deployment is solely to rescue members of the United States Armed Forces”, was approved by voice vote! Rep. Lee’s amendment to cut funds for the war in Afghanistan…
For Immediate Release June 27, 2011 Media Contacts: Athens/en route to Gaza: Robert Naiman, naiman [at] justforeignpolicy.org Washington, DC: Kate Gould, press [at] justforeignpolicy.org WASHINGTON, DC: On Friday, June 24, six members of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking her to “do everything in your power” to help “ensure the safety of…
While national attention is on the war in Afghanistan after the President’s announcement last night to only withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops by the end of next summer, Congress is gearing up again to debate another U.S.-led war–in Libya. While there is resounding, and ever growing, opposition to the war in Libya in the House, the…
I just got back from meeting with my friends at the Rebuilding Alliance who are walking the halls of Congress this week on behalf of a kindergarten in the West Bank village of Al Aqaba. They are asking members of Congress to press Israel to open and repave the now demolished Peace Road so that…
If your Senator has not co-sponsored S. 186, The “Safe & Responsible Redeployment of U.S. Combat Forces from Afghanistan Act of 2011”, make sure you do so here. But don’t stop there–you can take the next step by writing a letter to the editor in your local newspaper or by visiting your Senator’s in-State office…
Leading Israeli politicians have claimed that Israel’s conduct has been vindicated, distorting Justice Goldstone’s op-ed so comprehensively that Amnesty International excoriated the Israeli spin as being “based on a deliberate misinterpretation of Justice Goldstone’s comments”. Meanwhile in Congress, every bill, letter, and press statement on the subject has parroted the very same narrative that Israel…
The budget bill unveiled on Tuesday, set to fund the government for the next six months, includes $1.3 billion in unconditional military assistance for Egypt. The lack of any new measures for oversight of military aid bound for Egypt is alarming, particularly in the wake of testimonies from female detainees subjected to coerced “virginity tests”…
The following post also appeared on the Mondoweiss blog here. The International Crisis Group (ICG) issued a warning that the recent escalation of air strikes on Gaza and rocket attacks into Israel has created “the conditions for a rapid deterioration toward the kind of clash to which neither side aspires, for which both [Israel and…