Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/category/politics/peacemaking/page/68/)
About war and efforts to bring about peace. About changing a foreign policy of domination to one of generosity.
Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen, October 2008. wikimedia commons / Muhammad ud-Deen
On September 30, 2011 a U.S. drone in Yemen assassinated Anwar Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen accused of participation in terrorist activities against the United States. Until there is transparency and oversight, the policy of executive authorization of CIA targeted killings should not be tolerated.
As the Obama administration continues with what Levy terms as an “Israel-centric” diplomatic approach to the region, it continues to marginalize and distance America from much of the world, including some of its strongest allies.
The Houston Chronicle reports that the ubiquitous hacktivist (dis)organization Anonymous is celebrating Halloween by threatening to expose the members of Zetas, one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico. My little county, Rio Arriba, in northern New Mexico, has long been overrun by drugs because of this cartel. The guys on the left are not drug kingpins. They are ranchers. And they are seriously put out with the cartels.
What are the lessons to be learned from the deal to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for more than one thousand Palestinian prisoners?
Despite Obama’s claim to have secret irrefutable evidence supporting the accusations, his administration has not made this evidence public. Thus, it is too early to pass judgment on the accuracy of the complaint.
Shame on the Jewish Federation for removing a BDS supporter from its “Jewish heroes” contest.
I am always sad when these monsters who made their mark on the world through violence dies because I remember that someone has lost h/er husband, father, brother, or son. I hope and pray that the violence that killed them does not lead to even more retaliatory violence.
News reports of the prisoner swap have focused overwhelmingly on the humanity of Gilad Shalit. Implicitly, however, these reports deny the humanity of Palestinian prisoners and leave Western audiences with the mistaken impression that Palestinians are imprisoned only for egregious crimes.
While FDR was morally flawed regarding anti-Semitism, … he was astute enough in international strategy to know that Nazi Germany was a greater threat to national security than Imperial Japan.
by Hadas Marcus
The boy with the angelic face appeared dazed in the interview he was coerced into giving to the Egyptian news. Despite his pallid face, painfully thin body and the dark circles under his soulful eyes, he handled himself with incredible strength and self-restraint, struggling to speak in both English and Hebrew as he responded. Israeli newscasters criticized the harsh questions posed to him, and noted the fear in his eyes of saying something wrong that might invalidate his release. Israeli television showed innumerable times the gaunt young man being shuffled from one place to the next. News anchors commented on the weakness of his left arm, his inability to go down the stairs without gripping the rails, his hesitant speech and problems in focusing his eyes after years in a dark basement cell.