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For Charlie

Issue: 2006, Volume 39, Issue 4

Subject: Children

Author: Lubin, Barbara

Issue Description: Barbara Lubin, a Jewish-American activist, begins her Link with these words: “Israel’s recent invasion of Lebanon brought back painful memories to me of its 1982 invasion for more reasons than one. While Israel’s actions in 2006 were similar to 1982— widespread bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure, the destruction of entire neighborhoods, and the indiscriminate killing of women and children— my reactions then and now were very different. These opposite reactions tell the story of who I was and who I have become.”

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Beyond the Minor Second

Issue: 2006, Volume 39, Issue 5

Subject: Music

Author: Shaheen, Simon

Issue Description: Simon Shaheen, one of the most significant Arab musicians, performers and composers of our time, explains what it felt like when he first picked up the 'oud, what he experienced as a Palestinian growing up in Israel, and what he is doing today to bridge the cultures and conflicts in the world and to encourage other Palestinian musicians to reach their potential.

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Iran

Issue: 2005, Volume 38, Issue 1

Subject: History|Iran

Author: Simons, Geoff

Issue Description: A comprehensive survey of Iran, beginning in antiquity. From World War II onward, there are many familiar American names and U.S.-influenced events embedded in this account: John Foster Dulles; the C.I.A. and Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh; Kermit Roosevelt; the Rockefellers; Jimmy Carter and the Americans taken hostage during his presidency, President Ronald Reagan, Oliver North, and Iran-Contra.

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The Day FDR Met Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud

Issue: 2005, Volume 38, Issue 2

Subject: History|Politics|Saudi Arabia

Author: Lippman, Thomas W.

Issue Description: Former Washington Post Middle East Bureau Chief Thomas Lippman provides a fascinating, anecdote-laced account of the 1945 meeting of President Franklin D. Roosevelt with Saudi Arabia's legendary King Ibn Saud. Roosevelt's probing of Ibn Saud's views on Jewish settlement in Palestine elicited the King's response that Germany, being the perpetrator of the Holocaust, should be made to pay the price with appropriated land within Germany. Col. William Eddy, translator between the two principals, is relied upon for the substance of what was discussed, and the Eddy book, "F.D.R. Meets Ibn Saud," can be accessed on the AMEU website.

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The Coverage and Non-Coverage of Israel-Palestine

Issue: 2005, Volume 38, Issue 3

Subject: Media

Author: Weir, Alison

Issue Description: The New York Times is called “the newspaper of record,”in part because hundreds of other newspapers across the country and around the world subscribe to its New York Times News Service. So, if The Times skewers the news, it’s skewered worldwide. Which is exactly what is happening with its coverage of Palestine/Israel, according to Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew.

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The Israeli Factor

Issue: 2005, Volume 38, Issue 4

Subject: History|Iraq|War/Conflict

Author: Cooley, John

Issue Description: John Cooley, former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and ABC News, writes that President Bush, Prime Minister Blair and their real or nominal allies had the active or tacit cooperation of many in the media in the run-up to the “war of choice”with Iraq. Cooley adds: “For this writer, after covering Arab and Muslim regions for nearly half a century, there is another issue. Our mainstream media, almost without exception, tip-toe around the role played by Israel in influencing the Bushites toward war in March 2003.”

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A Polish Boy in Palestine

Issue: 2005, Volume 38, Issue 5

Subject: Human Rights|Land and Homes

Author: Neunuebel, David

Issue Description: Frequently the path to discovering the plight of the Palestinians begins with acts of conscience with respect to racism, discrimination and civil rights in the U.S. And so it was with David Neunuebel, who recalls the perjoratives and ill treatment meted out to his mother solely for being Polish and poor, and the segregation visited upon blacks simply because of skin color. When Neuneubel returned from visiting Palestine for the first time, he felt compelled to tell other Americans about what he had learned. In addition to producing two film documentaries on life for the Palestinians under occupation, he also created an organization, Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East.

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Beyond Road Maps & Walls

Issue: 2004, Volume 37, Issue 1

Subject: Peace Process|West Bank/Gaza

Author: Halper, Jeff

Issue Description: Jeff Halper believes the time for a two-state solution has run out. If he’s right, the question is, What do we do now? And, is a genuine Middle East peace possible? For if time is running out on the twostate option, that means time is running out on seriously considering the other options. In this issue, Dr. Halper looks at those options.

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Mordechai Vanunu

Issue: 2004, Volume 37, Issue 2

Subject: Military|Spying

Author: Eoloff, Mary

Issue Description: On April 21 of this year Dr. Mordechai Vanunu will have served out a prison sentence of 18 years for having publicly exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program. More than 11 of those years were spent in solitary confinement. Waiting for his release at the gate of Ashkelon prison will be a couple from St. Paul, Minnesota, Mary and Nick Eoloff. Nick is a retired lawyer and Mary taught Spanish before raising six children. Through adoption, Mordechai Vanunu has become the Eoloffs’seventh child.

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The CPT Report

Issue: 2004, Volume 37, Issue 3

Subject: Human Rights|War/Conflict

Author: Gish, Peggy

Issue Description: Once the digital photos surfaced, the mainstream media suddenly became interested in a December 2003 report on prisoner abuse in Iraq prepared by the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh mentioned CPT in interviews he gave, and CNN interviewed a CPT member in Baghdad. Meanwhile, Peggy Gish, a member of CPT’s Iraq delegation, was preparing this issue of The Link. CPT documented abuse not only in the Abu Ghraib prison but in prisons throughout U.S.-occupied Iraq.

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