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Znet Article Zunes: Jerusalem: Endorsing the Right of Conquest

Znet Article, June, 11 2007 Stephen Zunes
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Jerusalem: Endorsing the Right of Conquest

Znet Article Zunes: Iraq: The Failures of Democratization

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Stephen Zunes
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The failures of Iraqi democratization as advocated by the Bush administration should not be blamed primarily on the Iraqis. Nor should they be used to reinforce racist notions that Arabs or Muslims are somehow incapable of building democratic inst...

Znet Article Zunes: A Shift in Iran Policy?

Znet Article, November, 14 2006 Stephen Zunes
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Foaad Khosmood: Let's talk about the midterm elections. Many of the neocons and their allies were not re-elected. People like Curt Weldon and Rick Santorum were very hawkish on Iran, and had very militant rhetoric throughout their campaign. They w...

Znet Article Zunes: Operation Enduring Freedom: A Retrospective

Znet Article, October, 25 2006 Stephen Zunes
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It has become a given, even among many progressive critics of Bush administration policy, that while the U.S. war on Iraq was illegal, immoral, unnecessary, poorly executed, and contrary to America's national security interests, the war on Afghani...

Znet Article Zunes: Bush at the UN: Annotated

Znet Article, September, 22 2006 Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's address before the United Nations General Assembly on September 19 appeared to be designed for the domestic U.S. audience. Indeed, few of the foreign delegations or international journalists present could take seriously ...

Znet Article Zunes: How Washington Goaded Israel

Znet Article, August, 25 2006 Stephen Zunes
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There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the United States. The Bush administration was set on crippling Hezbollah, the radical Shiite political movement that maintains a sizable bloc...

Znet Article Zunes: Congress and the Israeli Attack on Lebanon: A Critical Reading

Znet Article, July, 31 2006 Stephen Zunes
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On July 20, the U.S. House of Representatives, by an overwhelming 410-8 margin, voted to unconditionally endorse Israel's ongoing attacks on Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The Senate passed a similar resolution defending the Israeli attack earlier in...

Znet Article Zunes: The Israel Lobby: How Powerful is it Really?

Znet Article, May, 25 2006 Stephen Zunes
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Since its publication in the London Review of Books in March, John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt's article "The Israel Lobby" -- and the longer version publishe...

Znet Article Zunes: The United States, Israel, and the Possible Attack on Iran

Znet Article, May, 02 2006 Stephen Zunes
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With even mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post and The New Yorker publishing credible stories that the United States is seriously planning a military attack on Iran, increasing numbers of Americans are expressing concerns about the co...

Znet Article Zunes: The Israeli Raid in Jericho: The Background

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Stephen Zunes
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The origins of the March 14 Israeli raid of a Palestinian prison in Jericho are rooted in another Israeli raid on a Palestinian city in 2001. On August 27 of that year, Israeli occupation forces assaulted the offices of the Popular Front for the ...

Znet Article Zunes: Libby Indictment May Open Door to Broader Iraq War Deceptions

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Stephen Zunes
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The details revealed thus far from the investigation that led to the five-count indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby seem to indicate that the efforts to expose the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson went far beyond t...

Znet Article Zunes: Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq Policy

Znet Article, November, 04 2005 Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's October 6 address at the National Endowment for Democracy illustrated his administration's increasingly desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq. The speech focused upon the Bush administra...

Znet Article Zunes: Fear-Mongering

Znet Article, November, 01 2005 Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's October 6 address at the National Endowment for Democracy illustrated his administration's increasingly desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq. The speech focused upon the Bush administra...

Znet Article Zunes: The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons

Znet Article, August, 31 2005 Stephen Zunes
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The election of the hard-line Teheran mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new head of Iran is undeniably a setback for those hoping to advance greater social and political freedom in that country. ...

Znet Article Zunes: US Christian Right's Grip on Middle East Policy

Znet Article, July, 14 2004 Stephen Zunes
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In recent years, a politicized and right-wing Protestant fundamentalist movement has emerged as a major factor in US support for the policies of the rightist Likud government in Israel. To understand this influence, it is important to recognize th...

Znet Article Zunes: Undermining Peace And Law

Znet Article, April, 17 2004 Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's unconditional endorsement of right-wing Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan constitutes a shocking reversal of longstanding U.S. Middle East policy and one of the most flagrant challenges to internat...

Znet Article Zunes: The Syrian Accountability Act And The Triumph Of Hegemony

Znet Article, October, 31 2003 Stephen Zunes
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On October 15, the U.S. House of Representatives--with an overwhelming bipartisan majority--passed the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003, which imposes strict sanctions against the Syrian government. (A simil...

Znet Article Zunes: Talking Points Regarding Syria

Znet Article, April, 15 2003 Stephen Zunes
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Recent statements by top Bush administration officials have accused the Syrian government of aiding senior Iraqi officials to escape, possessing chemical weapons, and committing "hostile acts" against the U.S. by allegedly supplying military equip...

Znet Article Zunes: Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Stephen Zunes
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Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy

Znet Article Zunes: Preparing The Nation For War

Znet Article, March, 18 2003 Stephen Zunes
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"My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war."This is patently false....

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