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Tough Love: Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

by Charles Judson Harwood Jr.

 2002 

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• Michael Ben-Yair (Israel attorney general, 1993-1996 Dec. 31), “The war's seventh day” {copy, pf, copy, rss, rss, menu, search} (Haaretz, Tel Aviv, Sunday March 3 2002).

• Ilan Pappé (senior lecturer in political science, University of Haifa, chair, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa), interviewed by Greg Dropkin (founder, webmaster, LabourNet UK), “Israeli Jewish myths and the prospect of American war” {81kb.pdf}, part of this video: A State of Denial: An interview with Dr Ilan Pappe {44:01, 161mb.flv, source}, audio {44:01, 40.3mb.mp3, source} (Joseph Cooper, producer/editor), which also features excerpts from Ilan Pappé’s lecture, later that same day of the interview, in the evening, “The Deterioration of Democracy and Liberalism in Israel,” remarks (speech, Q&As), moderated by Paul Kelemen (lecturer, School of Social Sciences) (UMIST: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, now part of ManUni: University of Manchester, “Britain’s largest single-site university,” Roscoe building, lecture theatre 'B', Brunswick Street, Manchester England, Wednesday September 11 2002, 6pm, sponsors: JfJfP: Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Manchester PSC: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, NW England Friends of Peace Now).

Portions of this video interview of Ilan Pappé are included in Occupation 101 (Triple Eye Films, 90 minutes, first film festival screening: March 2 2006, DVD released: May 15 2007), a film by Sufyan Omeish, Abdallah Omeish (producers, directors), winner of 7 film awards, this being one of 34 interviews in the film (“Award-winning documentary film on the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film depicts life in occupied Palestine under Israeli military rule.”).

Recently, Ilan Pappé, author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications, Oxford England, published October 12-19 2006, U.S. November 20) {U.K., U.S., Germany}, forthcoming, Ilan Pappé, The Bureaucracy of Evil: The History of the Israeli Occupation (Oneworld, May 1 2009) {U.K., U.S.}.

• Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As) (University of London, SOAS: School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H, Monday September 16 2002, 6-8:30pm, sponsor, Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition), remarks published, Ilan Pappe, “The '48 Nakba & The Zionist Quest for its Completion” {copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy} (Between the Lines, volume 2, number 18, October 2002).

• Jimmy Carter (U.S. President, Jan. 20 1977-1981 Jan. 20), interviewed in Oslo Norway by Tim Sebastian (BBC News, HARDtalk, BBC World, BBC News 24, Tuesday December 10 2002, BBC TV-2, Saturday December 14 2002) {BBCcat andm378l}, video {23:30, 6.64mb.rm, rss menu, search, search, search, a/v, a/v, rss}, transcript, “Jimmy Carter,” reported, “Continuing to search for peace” (BBC News, December 10 2002).

 2004 

• Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2004 I.C.J. 136 (U.N. I.C.J.: International Court of Justice, The Hague, Advisory Opinion, July 9 2004) {8.1mb.pdf, source}, ICJ summary {128.5kb.pdf, source} {UNBISnet: ICJ883, ISBN: 9210709934, LCCN: 2001380451, OCLC: 156587491, WorldCat}, series, I.C.J. Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders {UNBISnet, ISSN: 0074-4441, LCCN, UCal}, U.N. Doc. A/ES-10/273 (July 16 2004) {469kb.pdf, UNBISnet, browse}.

• Ilan Pappé, “Israel's Road Map to Nowhere: The End of the Peace Process?,” remarks (speech, Q&As), moderated by Gabriel Piterberg (associate professor, department of history) (UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles, CSTCH: Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, venue: SPA: School of Public Affairs building, room 2343, Los Angeles California, Monday November 15 2004, 2-4pm PT), audio {1:07:00} (CD No. 30, $11) (Global Voices for Justice, Long Beach California).

 2005 

• Ilan Pappé (senior lecturer in political science, University of Haifa, chair, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa, author), “To boldly go: Haifa University academic Ilan Pappe is one of the few Israelis supporting the university boycott of Israel. Here he explains why.” {pf, search, search, copy, source, linked, source} (EducationGuardian, a weekly supplement to The Guardian, London, Wednesday April 20 2005).

• Ilan Pappé, interviewed in 2004, “Ilan Pappe Interview” (Alternate Focus, “Broadcasting the other side of the story,” San Diego California, Chuck Orr (narrator), Al Maaz, George Nassar (camera), Benjamin Calloway-Jones (audio), John Odam, Tobis Films (post production)), also broadcast, as part of the series, “America, Israel and Palestine: Cause and Effect” (Global Information Services, Greenbrae California) (“films series for PATS: public access television, PBS: Public Broadcasting Service, film festivals, et al.”), broadcasts, Berkeley, South Marin County, Novato, San Francisco California, Groton Connecticut, Oahu Hawaii, Vancouver Washington, 2005-2008), e.g., “Ilan Pappe Interview” (BCM: Berkeley Community Media, B-TV 28, Alternate Focus, Berkeley California, October 20, 30, 31, November 4, 2005), AF video, “Ilan Pappe Interview” {28:31, 42mb.mp4, 85mb.flv, archive} (Blip.tv, Middle-East-Series, streaming/download video archive, posted February 5 2008) {rss, search, search}.

• Ilan Pappé, California speaking tour (October 26-30 2005).

• Ilan Pappé, Zeev Maoz (UCD: University of California, Davis, professor of political science, director, international relations program), interviewed by Mary Ambrose, “Is it time to divest from Israel? A debate between Ilan Pappe (Haifa University) and Ze'ev Maoz (UC Davis)” (Radio KALW, Your Call, San Francisco, Wednesday October 26 2005, 11am-noon PT), audio {61:30 at 6:28-58:17, 14.4mb.rm, source, rss, menu, search, linked, source}.

• Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), “Israel and Palestine: The Peace Charade,” introduced by Mahmood Ibrahim (chair, department of history, Cal Poly Pomona: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), moderated by Sonali Kolhatkar (host, Pacifica, radio KPFK, Uprising Radio) (Westwood United Methodist Church, 10497 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Wednesday October 26 2005, 7-10pm) {search} (co-sponsors: WiB-LA: Women in Black-Los Angeles, PAS: Palestine Aid Society, MPAC: Muslim Public Affairs Council, CAIR-Southern California), audio {1:15:00}, “Israel and Palestine: The Peace Charade” (CD No. 29, $11) (Global Voices for Justice, Long Beach California).

• Ilan Pappé, interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman, introduced by Dennis Bernstein (Pacifica, radio KPFA, Flashpoints, Berkeley California, Friday October 28 2005, 5-6pm PT, and KFCF, Fresno California) (“59,000 watts ... our signal reaches one third of the state ... founded in 1949 ... the first community supported radio station in the USA”), audio {59:50 at 26:46-39:03, 10.2mb.mp3, rss, podcasts, source, source, archive, archive, search, search, linked, source} (“a special segment with Israeli dissident Dr. Ilan Pappe on the stepped-up ethnic cleansing of Palestine”).

• Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As) (Calvary Presbyterian Church, Social Witness program, 2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Friday October 28 2005), transcript (introduction), audio {44:15, 40.5mb.mp3, source, source, search, linked, source}, Jeffrey Blankfort (producer), “Ilan Pappe: Sanctioning and Divesting from Israel and Afterward” (A-Infos Radio Project, radio4all.net, Watkins Glen New York) (“Israeli professor Ilan Pappe speaks to Presbyterian audience on the need for sanctioning and divesting from Israel as necessary to achieve a just one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict”).

• Ilan Pappé, interviewed Saturday October 29 2005 by Steve Zeltzer, “One on One: Labor, Zionism and Palestinians, an interview with Israeli University lecturer Ilan Pappe on the Israel-Palestine conflict” (Labor Video Project, Labor on the Job, Comcast cable TV channel 29, San Francisco, Friday November 25 2005, 6:30-7:30pm PT, and Sacramento, Philadelphia, Kalamazoo Michigan) (“the longest running labor cable show in the United States, since 1983”), transcript/audio {57:00, 52.2mb.mp3, rss, source, source, search} (slow download), Jeffrey Blankfort (producer), Claudine Faehndrich (transcriber), “Ilan Pappe on the Israel-Palestine conflict” (A-Infos Radio Project, radio4all.net, Watkins Glen New York, posted March 3 2006), audio/transcript copy {57:00, 28.9mb.mp3, search} (ICH: Information Clearing House, posted March 4 2006). “Labor on the Job interviews Israeli university lecturer Ilan Pappe about his struggle for equal rights in Israel and the boycott of Bar-Ilan and Haifa by the UK Association of University Teachers for the harassment of him and his student.” “Professor Ilan Pappe (Haifa University) on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Professor Pappe speaks about Zionism, the Palestinian Nakba, teaching the truth in Israel, the desirability of a one-state solution, Israel-Palestinian labor relations and divestment.”

• Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), introduced by Khalil Barhoum, “Boycott, Divestment, and Apartheid” (First Congregational Church of Oakland, United Church of Christ, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland California, Saturday October 29 2005, 7:30-9pm) (cosponsors: Firedoll Foundation, KPFA 94.1FM, Vanguard Public Foundation, American Friends Service Committee, Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace/Bay Area, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco, Global Exchange, International Solidarity Movement/Bay Area, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for a Free Palestine, Media Alliance, Students for Justice in Palestine/UC Berkeley, and SUSTAIN/Bay Area, MECA: Middle East Children's Alliance), later broadcast (about 33%), introduced by Malihe Razazan (Pacifica, radio KPFA, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Berkeley California, Wednesday February 1 2006, 7-8pm PT, and KFCF, Fresno California) (“59,000 watts ... our signal reaches one third of the state ... founded in 1949 ... the first community supported radio station in the USA”), audio {59:50, 36:40 at 3:20-40:00, 10.2mb.mp3, rss, podcasts, source, archive} (“This Wednesday night, as part of KPFA’s winter fund drive, we will hear a talk by Professor Ilan Pappe of Haifa University titled Boycott, Divestment and Apartheid. Dr. Pappe is a senior lecturer in political science at Haifa University. He is well known as a revisionist Israeli Historian and as a critic of Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians. His recent books include The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine (2003), The Israeli-Palestine Question (1999), and The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 (1992).”), subsequently, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications, Oxford England, published October 12-19 2006, U.S. November 20) {U.K., U.S., Germany}, forthcoming, Ilan Pappé, The Bureaucracy of Evil: The History of the Israeli Occupation (Oneworld, May 1 2009) {U.K., U.S.}.

• Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), “Gaza: The Great Deception – with Historian Ilan Pappe” (Stanford University, Building 320 Room 105, Braun Corner, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford California, Sunday October 30 2005, 3pm), events {search}, poster: “Disengagement from the Gaza Strip: Its aftermath and prospects for peace, with award-winning historian & Israeli equal rights advocate Ilan Pappe” {218kb.jpg, source} (Ilan Pappé: “The path to peace is one Americans and even South Africans have already adopted: Equal rights. In our case, that means equal rights for everyone, in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, regardless of whether they are Jewish, Muslim, or Christian.”) (cosponsors: ICA/IR: Division of International Comparative and Area Studies, International Relations, CaSA: Department of Cultural and Social Anthroplogy, CJME: Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, Stanford University, OASIS: Organization of Arab Students In Stanford, MSAN: Muslim Student Awareness Network at Stanford University, SAAAC: Stanford Asian American Activism Committee), reported, Ada Yee, “Israeli prof takes pro-Palestinian stance in speech” (The Stanford Daily, Monday October 31 2005) {archive, search}.

 2006 

• Norman Finkelstein (DePaul University, assistant professor of political science), Shlomo Ben-Ami (Israel minister of public security, 1999-2000, foreign minister, 2000-2001), debate, moderated by Amy Goodman (host), “Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami Debates Outspoken Professor Norman Finkelstein on Israel, the Palestinians, and the Peace Process” (Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report, New York City, February 14 2006), DemNow video {54:03, 97.10mb.rm}, Google video {55:00, 117mb.flv, .flv.mp4, search}, DemNow broadcast audio {54:00, 13.81mb.rm}, full debate audio {1:31:51, 42.05mb.mp3}, DemNow broadcast transcript {pf}, full debate transcript {copy, source}.

• Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), “Zionist Fables from Left to Right: From Herzel to Sharon” (Soton: University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Physics Lecture Theatre A (46:3001), Southampton Hampshire England, Friday February 24 2006, 7:30pm), reported, Malcolm Levitt, “Ilan Pappe” (Viewpoint, “A forum for independent internal comment within the University of Southampton,” issue 451, May 17 2006) {831kb.pdf, source}, letters/reply, Natan Meir (Lecturer in History, member of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations), Tobias Brinkmann (Lecturer in Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations), reply by Malcolm Levitt, “Letters. Ilan Pappe” (Viewpoint, issue 452, July 6 2006) {831kb.pdf}.

• Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), moderated by Ussama Makdisi (associate professor of history), “The Peace Charade in Palestine and Israel” (Rice University, Dean of Humanities, History Department, lecture series, “The Arab World: History, Politics, and Culture,” Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC/LSC: Rice Memorial Center, Ley Student Center, 6100 Main Street, Houston Texas, Tuesday February 28 2006, 7-9pm CT) (cosponsors: AAEF: Arab-American Educational Foundation, Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy), poster {632kb.pdf, source, 1.5mb.pdf, source}, Rice video (rm, wm) {1:28:49, Q&As at 50:15, 227mb.rm, 386mb.wmv, source, search}, later broadcast (48-minute edit), introduced by Said Fattouh, audio {60:32 at 9:58-58:55, 10.3mb.mp3, rss, source, search} (Pacifica, radio KPFT, Arab Voices, Houston-Galveston, Wednesday October 4 2006, 7-8pm CT), subsequently, Ilan Pappé, author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications, Oxford England, published October 12-19 2006, U.S. November 20) {U.K., U.S., Germany}, forthcoming, Ilan Pappé, The Bureaucracy of Evil: The History of the Israeli Occupation (Oneworld, May 1 2009) {U.K., U.S.}.

• Jimmy Carter, remarks (speech, Q&As), “The Major Obstacles to Peace in the Holy Land” {pf}, “Peace versus Democracy in Palestine: A Conversation with Jimmy Carter,” presiding, Thomas R. Pickering (senior vice president, international relations, The Boeing Company) (CFR: Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, March 2 2006), FNS transcript {copy} {Carter archive, CFR archive}, video {1:03:37, 108.7mb.wmv, 188.26mb.mp4}, audio {21.9mb.mp3}.

• Jimmy Carter, “Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace” {pf, copy, copy, copy} (Carter Center, Atlanta, March 13 2006) (“This op-ed was published in Haaretz {Friday March 17 2006, text, pf} and at least 70 other newspapers worldwide”), reported, Chris McGreal (Jerusalem), “Israel's colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter” {pf} (The Guardian, London, Saturday March 18 2006).

• John J. Mearsheimer (professor of political science, co-director, Program on International Security Policy, University of Chicago), Stephen M. Walt (professor of international affairs, academic dean 2002-2006, KSG: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), “The Israel Lobby” (London Review of Books, volume 28 number 6, dated March 23 2006), footnoted version, John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” {1411kb.pdf, copy} (Working Paper Number: RWP06-011, March 13 2006, Faculty Research Working Paper Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) (“about 250,000 downloads,” as of about May 1: Walt, speaking on C-Span, June 23 2006), response to responses, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, “Letters: The Israel Lobby” {copy} (London Review of Books, volume 28 number 9, dated May 11 2006).

 

• “The Israel Lobby?” (Radio WGBH, Open Source, Boston, April 4 2006, 7:00-8:00 p.m. ET), Christopher Lydon (host), interviewing Steve Clemons, Daniel Levy, Daniel Drezner, audio {52:00, 47.62kb.mp3, archive, rss, menu, rss, rss, rss rss}, broadcast by 33 U.S. radio stations (via PRI: Public Radio International, Open Source from PRI) (July 4 2005-2007 June 30) and by satellite radio (XMPR: XM Public Radio, XM channel 133, April 5, 3:00-4:00 a.m. ET).

• Tony Judt (professor of european studies, director Remarque Institute, NYU: New York University), “A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy” {copy} (The New York Times, April 19 2006) (“American influence in that part of the world now rests almost exclusively on our power to make war: which means in the end that it is no influence at all. ... Europeans, Latin Americans, Africans or Asians. Why, they ask, has America chosen to lose touch with the rest of the international community on this issue? Americans may not like the implications of this question. But it is pressing. It bears directly on our international standing and influence; and it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.)”

• Deborah Amos (foreign correspondent), introduced by Renée Montagne, “Paper on Israel Lobby Sparks Heated Debate” (NPR: National Public Radio, Morning Edition, Washington D.C., Friday April 21 2006, 5-7am, at 5:21-5:29 a.m. ET) (hour-1, segment-b) {317kb.pdf}, NPR transcript, audio (ditto, ditto) {7:46, 2.5mb.rm, 8.15mb.wma, rss, rss, menu, menu} {player} (2-hour program audio segments).

• Michael Massing, “The Storm over the Israel Lobby” (The New York Review of Books, volume 53 number 10, dated June 8 2006). “The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that analyzes political contributions, lists a total of thirty-six pro-Israel PACs, which together contributed $3.14 million to candidates in the 2004 election cycle. Pro-Israel donors give many millions more ... What AIPAC wants can be summed up very succinctly: a powerful Israel free to occupy the territory it chooses; enfeebled Palestinians; and unquestioning support for Israel by the United States ... while AIPAC focuses most of its efforts on Congress, the executive branch is more often lobbied by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ... the heads of more than fifty American Jewish organizations.”

• John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt (studio), Dennis Ross, Steven Spiegel, James Thurber (telephone), interviewed by Diane Rehm, “Israel's Influence” (NPR: National Public Radio, Radio WAMU, The Diane Rehm Show, Washington D.C., Wednesday June 21 2006, 10am-noon at 10-11:00 a.m. ET) (“Two political scientists argue that the Israel lobby wields extraordinary influence over U.S. foreign policy. We’ll hear different perspectives on its power in Washington.”), audio {51:20, 6.15mb.rm, 11.0mb.wma asx, rss menu, menu, rss menu} (their first radio appearance, since publishing their paper, on March 23 2006).

• John Mearsheimer (Chicago), Stephen Walt (Cambridge Massachusetts), interviewed by Brian Lamb (C-Span founder and CEO), “Lobbying for Israel” (C-Span, Washington Journal, Washington D.C., June 23 2006, 7-10am at 9-10am ET), C-Span video (deleted) (copy, request) {1:00:30, smil, sehedule, 186638890, 193069-3, rss, archive, search: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal, library: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal} (their first TV appearance, since publishing their paper, on March 23 2006), transcript.

• John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, interviewed by Steve Inskeep, introduced by Lynn Neary (NPR: National Public Radio, Morning Edition, Washington D.C., Thursday July 6 2006, 5-7am, at 5:21-5:29 a.m. ET) (hour-1, segment-b) {317kb.pdf}, “Researchers Say U.S. Policy Influenced by Israel,” NPR transcript, FNS transcript (none) {Walt|Mearsheimer|Lobby archive, ME archive}, audio (ditto, ditto) {7:45, 2.5mb.rm, 8.13mb.wma, rss, rss, menu, menu} {player} (2-hour program audio segments).

• Dennis Ross (WINEP), interviewed by Steve Inskeep (NPR: National Public Radio, Morning Edition, Washington D.C., Friday July 7 2006, 5-7am, at 5:21-5:26 a.m. ET) (hour-1, segment-b, first item) {317kb.pdf}, “Former Envoy: Israel Lobby Not All-Powerful,” NPR transcript, FNS transcript (none) {Ross|Lobby archive}, audio (ditto, ditto) {5:07, 1.65mb.rm, 5.39mb.wma} {player} (2-hour program audio segments).

• John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, interviewed by Paige Austin, “Grabbing the Third Rail” {pf} (Mother Jones, San Francisco, July 18 2006).

• John Mearsheimer, interviewed by Ken Nash, Mimi Rosenberg (Pacifica, radio WBAI, Building Bridges, 120 Wall Street 10th Floor, New York City, Monday July 24 2006, 7-8pm ET), announced (broadcast, podcast), segment audio {27:57, 6.4mb.mp3, rss, source, 25.61mb.mp3, rss, source, r4all archive, rss}, entire hour audio {wbai archive, rss}, broadcast by 14 radio stations. “The U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the "Israel Lobby." Mearsheimer discusses the various activities that pro-Israel groups have undertaken in order to shift U.S. foreign policy.”

• Roger Hurwitz, “The Israel Lobby” (The New York Review of Books, volume 53 number 13, dated August 10 2006): “They, however, are on firmer ground than Massing in emphasizing the lasting impression that Senator Charles Percy's loss in 1984 made on Capitol Hill.

It still reverberated in 1990, when I and other Jewish doves lobbied legislators to support a Sense of Congress resolution. The resolution called on Israel to reopen the Palestinian universities that it had recently closed in response to the (first) intifadah.

Among the offices I stopped at was that of Joseph Kennedy, then my own representative. I did hesitantly recall that a Palestinian had taken the life of his father. Kennedy was not in, so I explained my purpose to his legislative aide for foreign affairs. She immediately responded: "We can't support that." When I asked why, she said: "Because of Chuck Percy and the Lobby."

I found that ironic. My own father, a Zionist leader in Chicago, had organized the significant Jewish support that helped elect Percy to the Senate in 1966, because Israeli officials told him the incumbent was too sympathetic to Palestinians. In 1984, my father worked again to defeat the incumbent—this time Percy himself—for the same reason.”

• John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, remarks (speeches, Q&As), introduced by Nihad Awad (executive director, CAIR), moderated by Corey Saylor (government affairs director, CAIR), “The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in Lebanon” (sponsor: CAIR: Council on American-Islamic Relations, venue: National Press Club, Holeman Lounge, 529 14th Street NW, Washington D.C., Monday August 28 2006, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET), CAIR transcript {113kb.pdf}, notice, report, C-Span video (copy: rm, wmv, request) {1:27:20, 84.51mb.rm, smil, schedule, 186638890, 194052-1, rss, archive, search: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal, library: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal}, Fora.tv C-Span video copy {1:26:38, 7 Q&As at 27:00, 218mb.flv, source, rss, rss, menu}, EP audio {1:24:07, 57.7mb.mp3, rss, rss, archive, archive, search, search, search} (George Kenney, Electric Politics, Washington D.C.), comment, Paul Craig Roberts, “The Five Morons Revisited” {pf} (Antiwar.com, August 30 2006).

• John Dugard, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967 (U.N. Doc. A/HRC/2/5, Geneva, published Tuesday September 5 2006, 22 pages, UNHRC: U.N. Human Rights Council, 2nd session) {91kb.pdf, also via this, this, OHCHR, this, this, and ODS}.

• 15th plenary meeting (conference room 28, Tuesday afternoon September 26 2006, 3:05-6:10pm CEST, UNHRC: U.N. Human Rights Council, 2nd session, Palais des Nations, Geneva, September 18-6 October, November 27-29 2006), reported, “UN says Gaza crisis 'intolerable'” {pf} (BBC News, Friday September 26 2006, 6:10pm GMT).