Robert Naiman, Author at Just Foreign Policy

Americans for Peace Now Backs Kerry on Gaza Ceasefire

July 30, 2014Commentarygaza, John Kerry

Americans for Peace Now Backs Kerry on Gaza Ceasefire Robert Naiman, Daily Kos, Wednesday, July 30, 2014http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/30/1317767/-Americans-for-Peace-Now-Backs-Kerry-on-Gaza-Ceasefire (Revised from a piece yesterday at Huffington Post to include the Americans for Peace Now alert and the page of pro-Kerry-diplomacy tweets that Just Foreign Policy put up.) It was bad enough that Israel’s government rejected Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal to end the violence in…

Netanyahu’s War: What Is It Good For?

July 10, 2014Commentaryceasefire, gaza

Originally published at Huffington Post. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a new war on Palestinians in Gaza, a war whose purported justifications make George W. Bush’s excuses for his illegal invasion of Iraq smell nice by comparison. So far, the United States, Netanyahu’s chief enabler, has been unwilling to stop the carnage, as…

Iraq war powers: where do House members stand?

July 8, 2014Commentaryiraq, war powers

This post is so that I can refer to my spreadsheet in blogging. For now, the attached spreadsheet is not intended to be pretty, only to be accurate. My hope is especially to educate journalists to the fact that nearly half the House is on record opposing the invocation of the 2002 Iraq AUMF to…

Bipartisan Rigell-Lee letter to Pres. Obama on Iraq: respect Constitution on using force

June 25, 2014Documentsiraq, war powers

Virginia Republican Scott Rigell and California Democrat Barbara Lee are leading a bipartisan letter to President Obama, urging the President to respect the Constitutional requirement to seek Congressional authorization before using military force in Iraq. To urge your Representative to sign the bipartisan Rigell-Lee letter, sign our petition at MoveOn. Here is the letter: ===…

Presbyterians Divest from the Israeli Occupation: the End of the Beginning?

June 23, 2014Commentarydivestment, Israeli occupation, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish Voice for Peace, presbyterian church

When there is a just resolution to the Israel/Palestine conflict, I will claim that June 20, 2014 marked a turning point. That was the day that the Presbyterian Church, USA voted to divest from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions as a result of these companies’ continued involvement in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and these…

JFP Statement: House bars transfer of MANPADS to Syria

June 20, 2014Documentsiraq, John Conyers, manpads, Syria

June 20, 201410:30 AMCONTACT: Just Foreign PolicyRobert Naiman: (202) 448-2898 x1, Naiman@justforeignpolicy.org Statement of Robert Naiman, Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy, on House passage of Conyers-Yoho amendment to prohibit transfer of MANPADS to Syria WASHINGTON – June 20 – “The House took an important step last night by prohibiting the transfer of MANPADS to actors in Syria. House…

Anti-Apartheid Archbishop Calls Presbyterians to Back Divestment from Israeli Occupation

June 16, 2014CommentaryDesmond Tutu, divestment, presbyterian church

Detroit — As Presbyterians meeting in Detroit consider divestment from three companies linked to the Israeli occupation of Palestine — Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett Packard — Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the leader who more than any other human being alive is associated with the successful use of divestment to help overturn apartheid in South Africa, is calling on Presbyterians…

Presbyterians Poised for Historic Vote Against Israel’s Occupation of Palestine

June 12, 2014Commentarycaterpillar, divestment, Hewlett-Packard, israel, Motorola, palestine, presbyterian church, Rachel Corrie, Religion

Sometimes a situation that appears hopeless is actually poised for a new beginning – when the apparent hopelessness reflects acceptance that conventional wisdom has utterly failed to bring about solutions and that solutions require actions that conventional wisdom has blocked. Next week, Presbyterians meeting in Detroit will have a historic opportunity to help change the fundamental dynamics…

Amb. Ford: Give Syrian Insurgents Manpads to Shoot Down Iranian Planes

June 11, 2014Commentaryiran, John Conyers, manpads, Peter Welch, Syria

Last September, Congress said no to plans to bomb Syria, by failing to approve an authorization for the use of military force. Now there is a new push — exemplified by this New York Times op-ed by former Ambassador Robert Ford — for deeper U.S. military intervention in Syria. Advocates for U.S. military intervention are assuring us that…

Warmonger Media Storm Against Saving Sgt. Bergdahl Shows Why We Have So Much War

June 6, 2014Commentaryafghanistan, Bergdahl, guantanamo

If you want to understand why it’s the case that on the one hand the U.S. public and the majority of Congress turned against the war in Afghanistan a long time ago, and yet on the other hand, it’s been so hard to end the war, this week’s warmonger media storm against the diplomatic rescue…

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