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Josh Ruebner on Israel’s Declining International Reputation
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Josh Ruebner on the Decline in Israel s International
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Suddenly Israel seems unable to control the debate. Josh
Ruebner calls the recent behavior of Israeli leaders,
erratic . Is there a policy shift on the horizon?
TRT: 29:29
Produced by Dori Smith, Storrs, CT
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Josh Ruebner, the National Advocacy Director for the US
Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation joins us to look
at US and Israel policy toward Palestine, a slight
opening now in Washington DC after Israel decides to
stand down from some of its restrictions of goods and
building supplies into Gaza.
US Military Aid to Israel: s not just a distant conflict
it s one that we re intimately involved with because we
provide Israel with every conceivable weapon available
that it uses to engage in it s illegal military
occupation of the Palestinian territories and the kinds
of horrific human rights abuses that were witnessed for
example with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. If you go to one
of our web sites which is Aid to Israel.org you ll see
that our support for Israel in the form of Military aid
comes at a price that we really cannot afford 30 billion
dollars in weapons between 2009 and 2018 and if you go
onto our web site you can look at your own town,
congressional district or state and see how much that
geographical unit is providing in tax dollars to Israel
and what that money could fund instead in terms of unmet
domestic needs that we need to take care of here at home
such as affordable housing, green jobs retraining, health
care, etc, so we could think of a lot better ways to put
our tax dollars to than Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Josh Ruebner s group represents a national coalition of
more than 250 organizations working together to change
U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestine in recognition of
the need for equality, an improvement in human rights and
respect for international law.
It s been an interesting week in Washington thus far as
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in
meetings with President Obama, the Turkish Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglo has demanded an apology from
Israel for the Gaza Freedom Flotilla killings. Israel s
Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said flat out, .
Then, a surprising story by Mark Perry about behind the
scenes discussions at CENTCOM about a possible opening to
reevaluate the wisdom of isolating Hamas and Hezbollah.
Perry s source at CENTCOM scoffing at Israel s portrayal
of the Palestinian Security Forces as linked to al Qaeda.
Mark Perry reported June 30th that CENTCOM, the US
Central Command, has been discussing the previously taboo
subject of engaging diplomatically with militant groups
like Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. A Red Team
Report according to Perry, was issued May 7th, just weeks
before Israeli commando forces boarded the Mavi Marmara
and other ships in the Flotilla trying to break the
Israeli blockade of Gaza. The event in international
waters has turned diplomacy on its head between Israel
and Turkey. Stay tuned for our upcoming interview with
Mark Perry.
CLIPS: Mark Regev, Israel s spokesperson, from BBC.
Hartford WHUS EVENT: Former US Military Col. Ann Wright
spoke to an audience in Hartford, Connecticut about the
Gaza Freedom Flotilla she was on that was attacked by
Israeli Commandos. You can listen to the entire program
online at WHUS.org. Wright explained that there were many
reporters on board the various flotilla ships, and on the
Mavi Marmara, an Al Jazeera reporter reported seeing
someone slump over on the top deck as if shot from the
Israeli helicopter above prior to the landing on deck of
Israeli commandos. She said fifty people were wounded by
gunfire, another nine were killed, eight Turkish citizens
and one American.
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