APN's mission is to educate and persuade the American public and its leadership to support and adopt policies that will lead to comprehensive, durable, Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peace, based on a two-state solution, guaranteeing both peoples security, and consistent with U.S. national interests.
FMEP’s Lara Friedman &
Rebecca Abou-chedid
…the evidence that the Squad’s critics are anti-Palestinian is far stronger than the evidence that the Squad is anti-Jewish. The reason this bigotry goes undiscussed is because, in mainstream American discourse, the word ‘anti-Palestinian’ barely exists. It is absent not because anti-Palestinian bigotry is rare but because it is ubiquitous. It is absent precisely because, if the concept existed, almost everyone in Congress would be guilty of it, except for a tiny minority of renegade progressives who are regularly denounced as antisemites.”
1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
(FY22 SFOPS) HR 4373 (report): Following House Appropriations subcommittee/committee hearings,
The COVID relief bill also known as the Governor William J. LePetomaine Memorial
We Have to Keep Our Phony Baloney Jobs Act of 2020 is 5,593 pages long. (It s a good thing that OSHA regulations don t apply to Congress, or a lot of pages and messengers would have a helluva class action suit.) Naturally, within this massive cinderblock is something for everyone. For example, on pages 341-342, there is $500,000,000 for Israel s defense.
1. SEC. 8072. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under the headings ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’ and
2. ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’, $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs: Provided, That of this amount, $73,000,000 shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Government of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats, subject to the U.S.-Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agreement, as amended; $177,000,000 shall