In a little-noticed move before the U.S. presidential election, the Trump administration bestowed another major gift upon Israel’s right-wing government, lifting restrictions on U.S. funding of joint U.S.-Israeli research projects in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.
Overhauling U.S Foreign Policy: The Bitter Fights Ahead
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If Trump loses, we can’t just go back to the status quo. On foreign policy especially, movements need to be ready to push a new administration hard.
By William Minter, Imani Countess, October 16, 2020.
The most consequential election year in most of our lifetimes has featured stark crises unspooling against a backdrop of vigorous activist mobilizations and simmering public outrage. President Trump may lose his reelection bid, but that will not be enough. We need fundamental change rather than a return to the status quo ante.
Unconditional backing for Israel is common cause among all US administrations.
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A daughter recovers the memory of her father, lost to espionage at the dawn of the modern oil age.
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