Robertson’s supporters are the single largest block of pro-Bush supporters and a core constituency for the war in Iraq. Nine out of 10 evangelicals voted for Bush….. The Coalition has largely intimidated the weak-kneed U.S. Congress. Christian fundamentalists now control a third of all national Republican state committee posts, and 41 of 51 Republican senators received a 100% approval rating from the Coalition…..
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The illegal settlements in Gaza were put there despite America’s opposition and in disregard of international law. Now, of course, the Israelis want the American taxpayers to pay $2.2 billion to correct their mistake made in defiance of U.S. policy. They expect us to pay for the transfer of the Israeli settlers….. Continue Reading
During the course of the bloody conflicts of recent years, approximately 30,000 inhabitants of the Gaza Strip have been uprooted from their homes. Entire Palestinian neighborhoods along the Philadelphi route in Rafah, at the edges of the Khan Yunis refugee camp, along the route to Netzarim and in the north on the edges of Beit Hanun have been turned into heaps of ruins by the Israel Defense Forces….. Continue Reading
FOR THOSE WHO pay attention to Middle Eastern relations, things got a little weird a couple of months ago when George W. Bush – the same man who not long ago referred to Iran as part of the “axis of evil” and who, in his second inaugural address, vowed to rid the world of despots – started offering the Islamic Republic incentives to halt its nuclear program. You had to wonder, why the sudden change in tone? What is real here and what is smoke?….. Continue Reading
Palestine Red Cresent Society publishes the total number of monthly Palestinian deaths and injuries at hands of Israeli occupation forces….. Continue Reading