october 2004

......if terror disrupts the election -- the electors, who actually choose the President, should be freed from all prior commitments to party so that they can vote their consciences for what is best for the country given the new crisis  -- as all promises made by the bi-partisan war candidates will have become irrelevant and inoperative anyway and suspicion will be on the bi-partisan Establishment for the calamity.   D
Eastman ,Yakima Washington
  Nader  statement in the State of Washington Voters Pamphlet for the State General Election  Novemeber 2, 2004:   Nader for President 2004 PO Box 18002Washington D.C. 20036 Telephone: 202-265-4000 E-mail, to to: votenader.org/contact/index.php Website: votenader.org        Independent candidates Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo urge a rapid, responsible Iraq withdrawal.  We seek an end of corporate control of government and a government that is truly "of, by and for the people."  They seek to shift the power to workers, consumers and tax payers and put the necessities of people before corporations including health care for all, earning a living wage for themselves and their family, authentic consumer protection, environmental protection, labor law reform, a jobs program to rebuild U.S. infrastructure, end poverty, an energy policy that breaks U.S. addiction to fossil and nuclear energy and creates jobs building sustainable clean energy as well as efficient buildings and motor vehicles.  They support education, from pre-school through college, affordable for all Americans with developed civic skills.  They protect the Constitution by repealing the Patriot Act, ending the failed drug war and restoring justice.  They would shift the burden from work to wealth and to things we like least, e.g., pollution, gambling, addictive industries and stock speculation more than to things we like, e.g., food, books, clothing.  Nader-Camejo seeks to wage peace not just prepare for war -- the military budget is half the federal government's current operating expenditures.  They are seeking a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, pressing for arms control and nuclear disarmament worldwide, stopping support of dictators and oligarchs and advancing human rights.  For more than four decades, Ralph Nader and Peter Miguel Camejo have saved lives, opened minds, implemented solutions, and inspired citizens to building a better world.  They have tirelessly worked for justice for all and are known for their ethics, integrity and independence.  Nader-Camejo urge voters to voe their needs not their fears and declare productive independence from the two corporate political parties.     p. 66  State of Washington Voters' Pamphlet  

Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center The Hague
Press release - October 8, 2004.

The Hague - On October 12, 'Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center The Hague' will hold its first press conference at The Bel Air Hotel, Johan de Wittlaan 30, 2517 JR, The Hague. The Bel Air Hotel is located next to the Tribunal and the International Congress Center. The press conference will start immediately after the adjournment of the Milosevic trial, at around 2 p.m.

Issues and material to be presented:

1. The current situation concerning the defense of President Milosevic, and the steps being taken by the Freedom Center against the tribunal's decision to impose counsel.
2. The presentation of evidence showing the relationship between the war-time Bosnian Muslim leader Izetbegovic, and senior Al-Qaeda leadership.
3. The relationship between the Democratic candidate for the American Presidency, John Kerry, and Albanian terrorists in Kosovo.

The press conference will be attended by Nico Varkevisser (spokesman) and Mr. Nico Steijnen (lawyer).

Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center The Hague

To support Slobodan Milosevic in his struggle against The Hague Tribunal and the false indictments, the 'Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center the Hague' has been established in the Netherlands. The purpose of the Freedom Center is to inform the public of what is happening at The Hague Tribunal; the violations of international law and the gross violations of the rights of those accused by the tribunal.The necessity of the Freedom Center has become extremely urgent since the Tribunal, in violation of international law and even its own rules, denied Milosevic the right to present his own defense. Our goal is to present the truth about what happened in Yugoslavia, and to clarify the overriding political objectives of the tribunal, and its supporters.President Milosevic is fighting against a monstrous machinery that is determined to use any means to punish the Serbian people for their resistance against the destruction of Yugoslavia by terrorist and fascist forces.

The Serbian people are the real ones accused by the Tribunal, and President Milosevic is in The Hague fighting for their future.
Nico Varkevisser: Spokesman, and assistant to the President
E-mail: nico.v@slobodan-milosevic.org
Nico Steijnen: Legal affairs nico.s@slobodan-milosevic.org

ISRAEL "FREEZING" THE PEACE PROCESS IN PALESTINE

The United States on Wednesday evening asked Israel to clarify statements made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior advisor, Dov Weisglass, during an interview to Haaretz that the
disengagement plan means a "freezing of the peace process," Israel Radio reported.The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process," Weisglass, one of the initiators of the disengagement plan, said in an interview for the Friday Magazine.

"And when you freeze that process," Weisglass added, "you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem.

"Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress."

"The disengagement is actually formaldehyde," he said. "It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians." (The full interview will appear on Friday.)

the interview is to be printed in Ha'aretz on Friday

Left slams comments
Lawmakers from the Israeli left responded furiously to Weisglass' comments.
Labor Party chairman Shimon Peres said Sharon had never told him that the disengagement plan was meant to freeze the peace process. "He who seeks half-peace will bring half-war," Peres said Wednesday.
In the wake of the comments, Hadash MK Ahmed Tibi sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer questioning whether "the American administration is a partner to Sharon's political deceit, which Weisglass revealed with incriminating candor." Tibi said that Weisglass' comments "bolster what we have said all along, that the [disengagement] plan is a 'Sharon bluff'."

Yahad MK Yossi Beilin said Weisglass' "frightening comments" were uttered in a rare moment of truth, and show Sharon's real, dangerous intentions.The remarks "reveal the fact that it is Sharon who is not a partner for peace, and the peace camp must work for him to be overthrown," said Beilin.
Hadash MK Mohammed Barakeh called the statements grave, saying they prove that the Sharon government must be toppled as soon as possible. These comments, Barakeh said, affirm the importance of refusing to serve in the IDF and the relevance of the Geneva Initiative, a peace plan co-authored by Beilin and former Palestinian minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.

National Union MK Zvi Hendel said that Weisglass' comments stem from political considerations, namely to appease the right for the short term.
Asked why the disengagement plan had been hatched, Weisglass said: "Because in the fall of 2003 we understood that everything was stuck. And although by the way the Americans read the situation, the blame fell on the Palestinians, not on us, Arik [Sharon] grasped that this state of affairs could not last, that they wouldn't leave us alone, wouldn't get off our case. Time was not on our side. There was international erosion, internal erosion. Domestically, in the meantime, everything was collapsing. The economy was stagnant, and the Geneva Initiative had gained broad support.
"And then we were hit with the letters of officers and letters of pilots and letters of commandos [refusing to serve in the territories]. These were not weird kids with green ponytails and a ring in their nose with a strong odor of grass. These were people like Spector's group [Yiftah Spector, a renowned Air Force pilot who signed the pilot's letter]. Really our finest young people."
Weisglass does not deny that the main achievement of the Gaza plan is the freezing of the peace process in a "legitimate manner."
"That is exactly what happened," he said. "You know, the term `peace process' is a bundle of concepts and commitments. The peace process is the establishment of a Palestinian state with all the security risks that entails. The peace process is the evacuation of settlements, it's the return of refugees, it's the partition of Jerusalem. And all that has now been frozen.... what I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the settlements would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns. That is the significance of what we did."

AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ, RESOLUTION OF 2002
Posted Oct 1, 2004 08:07 AM PST
Category: IRAQ
This is the Congressional authorization for force that Bush used to launch the invasion of Iraq. However, if you read Section 3, paragraph B, Bush was required to prove to the Congress that Iraq was in violation of UN Resolutions by still being in possession of weapons of mass destruction, and secondly, that Iraq was behind 9-11. Both claims have since been disproved and discredited, the product of the Pentagon Office at the heart of the latest Israeli spy scandal. Therefore, under United States law, the war in Iraq is illegal. And We The People are not under any legal or moral obligation to pay for it, let alone let our kids be killed in it.

If anything, Bush and his pro-war Neocon buddies should be required to reimburse the treasury for their private use of government property. I leave the question of civil lawsuits for wrongful deaths to the families of the dead American service people, and the live service people still suffering from depleted uranium.
http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf
fascist usaCongress authorized a census every 10 years. We now have one annually, the American Community Survey, staffed by three million federal employees and various contractors. Essentially, it’s a spy system. It delves into matters that government has no business knowing including a person’s job, income, physical and emotional health, family status, place of residence, intimate personal and private habits, marital status and race, physical, mental and emotional problems. They want to know how many bedrooms you have in case they have to move some people into your home after you lose your home to bankruptcy due to high interest rates. What does it cost you for electricity, gas, mortgage payments and property taxes? They even want to know where you are during all 24 hours so they will know, under the Patriot Act, when to go through your home to check everything personal including your thoughts and how much money and how many guns you have in your home. You have to supply the names and addresses of friends, relatives and employer along with how many homes and vehicles you own. Your educational levels are of government interest as well as information on people in your home, what languages they speak, and when they last worked at a job. This is a true thought police. Most important of all government will back into your assets, do net asset value on you and if you have too much versus your declared income, the IRS will soon be after you. If you are found to have cheated the government of taxes, you will go to an internment camp for reeducation. This survey is not voluntary you must answer or face a $100 fine. Any false response brings a $500 fine. If you do not answer or give nonsensical answers, the fines are $10,000 to $50,000. All the information is sold to corporations so they can better sell you their wares. That fellow Americans is what it is like living in a corporate fascist state.                                                                                       The International Forecaster

Ferlingetti's Citylights Books calls cops on crimespeech.


> Folks,  tonight, Sept l5, 2004, Project Censored threw a little boring talk at Citylights to celebrate their new book on the 'corporate' media's censored stories. I showed up late with a leaflet I made a year ago when Project Censored "censored" their own story on the Neoconservatives by misrepresenting the neocons as bushcheneyrumsfeld instead of the kabal of likudnik Jews we have all come to love and to whom we may soon be able to send condolences as they cool their heels in the slammer if the FBI is ever untethered  after the election.
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> I passed out a few leaflets which describes the deception of Project Censored, runs down the neocons, the left zionists controlling the left, the Iraq war as primarily a war for Israel,  the 'not an oil war' thesis, and a reading list.  Presently the speaker interrupts his 'divert, distract, and deceive' bore on po-mo culturism and narrative to announce that someone is passing out a leaflet with a representaion of a censor stamp with a star of david on it.  Guy behind me on the stairs: "Yeah, and he's wearing Calvin Klein jeans!" ( I am not making this up) .  I am? But Klein is Jewish.  I say, " ok, trash me for my Calvins? " Voice from the front:  "well, there are 4 Jews up here"  .    I don't quite get it as I cannot see them, so I say to the crowd that they can pick up my leaflet on how Project Censored censored their own story, that the left zionist-jews run the left, "no they don't, Chomsky 's not a zionist" voice from the front,  I say, "Chomsky IS a zionist. talk about anything except Israel."...".Israel is the cause of 9-11, the Iraq war" .   I stop.  Citylights manager comes up up me and tells me to leave,  I refuse.  He grabs my arm, I tell him to get his hands off of me.  He says he is going  to call the cops. I say go for it.
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> The talks continue , the most nauseating stuff on sexual repression...that is BushAmerica, and so on, no wonder the right wing culture critics howl over leftist cant.   We quietly wait out the  junk (no real discussion of the war, etc) and the event is over and some folks take the leaflet, a bunch of high school kids file out having been exposed to left-wing idiocy, sure to innoculate them against ever taking the left seriously, and a little dose of stalinism from...Citylights Books, home of the Revolution, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlenghetti, etc
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> I have seen the best minds of my generation  eat the shit of Jewish/Zionist propaganda,  I have seen the cauldron of Jewish nuclear fire sweep across the deserts of Arabia, watched the babbling terrorism-speak of the stink tanks...spook an entire nation into  the thrall of Arab killers working for
> Israel.  etc>
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> Cop shows up and says I have to leave.  OK fine.  He remarks that these folks are solopsists, and grins. SF cops are great. "Solipsists" ?  well, he is close, but no cigar.  They are left-wing wankers , with visions of lenin dancing in their heads: every man a lenin, well, actually, I will be the Lenin, the rest will hang on my every word, and those who stray...well, history will absolve ME.   etc. More crimespeech folks,  crimethink, the left calls the cops, oh, and the last talk is about how awful that the US locks up 2 million guys....what jail would the Jewish left and the goyische left zombies put me in? or would I even get habeas corpus, a trial, etc? Zio- Stalinism folks, it is all around us.  Kapos working for Israel and Jewish Power.  Kapos working for CityLights Books.
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> Joe Web

samarra

Reports say residents of Samarra - which lies on the main highway from Baghdad to northern Iraq - are too afraid to venture out.

Witnesses in the centre of the city have spoken of American snipers shooting at anyone who appeared on the streets.

Some 5,000 troops poured into Samarra during Friday in one of the biggest offensives since the invasion of Iraq.

CONGRESSMEN WANT critics and boycott protesters of Israel TREATED AS FELONS
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=greenberg200409291150

ERIC J. GREENBERG, FORWARD - As the push to cut off investments in Israel gains momentum in Protestant circles, Jewish organizations and their allies on Capitol Hill are racing to neutralize the burgeoning divestment movement. This week, following a tense three-hour summit with upset Jewish communal officials, leaders of the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church(USA), with 2.5 million members, said they were determined to go ahead with their recently approved plan to divest selectively from Israel. The interfaith meeting came just days after Anglican Church officials visiting Israel saidthat they would push for consideration of a divestment plan to protestIsrael's policies toward the Palestinians. . .

In an effort to head off anti-Israel divestment efforts, a bipartisan group of 13 congressmen sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce stating that such campaigns violate America's laws regarding the Arab boycott of Israel. The letter, which was initiated by the Zionist Organization of
America, was sent to the Commerce's Office of Anti-boycott Compliance. The congressmembers urged the office to "investigate the national boycott campaign against Israel, shut down the illegal divestment campaigns and impose the appropriate penalties."

A second bipartisan group of congressmen sent a letter to the Presbyterian Church's chief executive, the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, calling for the church to abandon its recently adopted divestment plan. The letter, organized by Howard Berman, a California Democrat, termed the church's divestment policy "irresponsible, counterproductive and morally bankrupt." The letter stated that the resolution "leads us to only one conclusion: The Presbyterian Church has knowingly gone on record calling for jeopardizing the existence of the State of Israel."

The Congressional letter noted that divestment supporters are actively promoting the boycott of Israel on the internet and have launched divestment campaigns on more than thirty college campuses, including the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The divestment campaign "poses serious economic consequences for our
country," the letter pointed out, noting that according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Arab boycott of Israel is a "substantive impediment" to U.S. trade and investment. "The financial future of U.S. companies and the status of our country's international trade ... are at stake." The letter added that the issue is "urgent" because a national student
divestment conference is scheduled to be held at Duke University on October
15, 2004.

Gaza attacks

26 Palestinian civilians were killed today during the ongoing Israeli invasion of northern Gaza Strip, including 11 with one tank round that ripped them apart in Jabalia refugee camp, as Israeli occupation forces continued shelling and destroying houses.The civilians were killed this afternoon when an Israeli tank fired a round at a gathering near the Sekka area.

The sources also indicated that a large number of casualties overflowed the Kamal Adwan and Al Awda hospitals, in addition to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where a number of civilians are being treated from critical wounds. Medical sources told WAFA that more than 50 civilians were wounded and were evacuated to Al Awda Hospital, most of them in critical condition because of being shot in the upper body. WAFA news agency reported that Israeli forces invading north of Gaza Strip opened heavy gunfire towards civilians' houses in Jabalia camp,

Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces stepped up its military offensive against the residents of Jabalia camp, opening heavy gunfire in all directions as the sounds of explosions and crackle of bullets is heard everywhere. .The witnesses added that destruction and vandalism of Palestinian homes continued inside the camp, as Israeli troops have raided and wrecked more than 35 houses so far. Snipers were also reported taking up positions on the houses' rooftops to shoot at civilians. A civilian was also killed by Israeli gunfire and seven others were wounded, including medics in Jabalia refugee camp, as the director of Emergency Department at the Ministry of Health said that an unidentified civilian was shot dead by Israeli troops. Seven others were also wounded, including Samir Al Wuheidi, who drives an ambulance, and is in critical condition.
A third civilian was shot and killed with a direct bullet in the heart.

Look what Kerry's Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel are up to!!!

An Open Letter to the Heads of State and Government
Of the European Union and NATO
September 28, 2004 As citizens of the Euro-Atlantic community of democracies, we wish to express our sympathy and solidarity with the people of the Russian Federation in their struggle against terrorism. The mass murderers who seized School No. 1 in Beslan committed a heinous act of terrorism for which there can be no rationale or excuse. While other mass murderers have killed children and unarmed civilians, the calculated targeting of so many innocent children at school is an unprecedented act of barbarism that violates the values and norms of our community and which all civilized nations must condemn.

At the same time, we are deeply concerned that these tragic events are being used to further undermine democracy in Russia. Russia’s democratic institutions have always been weak and fragile. Since becoming President in January 2000, Vladimir Putin has made them even weaker. He has systematically undercut the freedom and independence of the press, destroyed the checks and balances in the Russian federal system, arbitrarily imprisoned both real and imagined political rivals, removed legitimate candidates from electoral ballots, harassed and arrested NGO leaders, and weakened Russia’s political parties. In the wake of the horrific crime in Beslan, President Putin has announced plans to further centralize power and to push through measures that will take Russia a step closer to authoritarian regime.

We are also worried about the deteriorating conduct of Russia in its foreign relations. President Putin’s foreign policy is increasingly marked by a threatening attitude towards Russia’s neighbors and Europe’s energy security, the return of rhetoric of militarism and empire, and by a refusal to comply with Russia’s international treaty obligations. In all aspects of Russian political life, the instruments of state power appear to be being rebuilt and the dominance of the security services to grow. We believe that this conduct cannot be accepted as the foundation of a true partnership between Russia and the democracies of NATO and the European Union.

These moves are only the latest evidence that the present Russian leadership is breaking away from the core democratic values of the Euro-Atlantic community. All too often in the past, the West has remained silent and restrained its criticism in the belief that President Putin’s steps in the wrong direction were temporary and the hope that Russia would soon return to a democratic and pro-Western path. Western leaders continue to embrace President Putin in the face of growing evidence that the country is moving in the wrong direction and that his strategy for fighting terrorism is producing less and less freedom. We firmly believe dictatorship will not and cannot be the answer to Russia’s problems and the very real threats it faces.

The leaders of the West must recognize that our current strategy towards Russia is failing. Our policies have failed to contribute to the democratic Russia we wished for and the people of this great country deserve after all the suffering they have endured. It is time for us to rethink how and to what extent we engage with Putin’s Russia and to put ourselves unambiguously on the side of democratic forces in Russia. At this critical time in history when the West is pushing for democratic change around the world, including in the broader Middle East, it is imperative that we do not look the other way in assessing Moscow’s behaviour or create a double standard for democracy in the countries which lie to Europe’s East. We must speak the truth about what is happening in Russia. We owe it to the victims of Beslan and the tens of thousands of Russian democrats who are still fighting to preserve democracy and human freedom in their country.

Mr. Urban Ahlin, Member of Parliament, Sweden
The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright, Former Secretary of State, United States
The Honorable Giuliano Amato, Former Prime Minister, Italy
Dr. Uzi Arad, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Israel
Dr. Timothy Garton Ash, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Dr. Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States
Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, United States
Mr. Rafael L. Bardaji, Strategic Studies Group, Spain
Prof. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland
Dr. Arnold Beichman, Hoover Institution, United States
Dr. Jeff Bergner, Former Staff Director, U.S. Senate, United States
The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Senator, United States
Mr. Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister, Sweden
Mr. Max Boot, The Council on Foreign Relations, United States
Ms. Ellen Bork, Project for the New American Century, United States
Mr. Pascal Bruckner, Writer, France
Mr. Mark Brzezinski, McGuire Woods LLP, United States
Mr. Reinhard Buetikofer, Chairman, Green Party, Germany
Dr. Janusz Bugajski, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
Sir Michael Butler, Former Permanent Representative to the European Community,
United Kingdom
The Honorable Martin Butora, Former Ambassador, Slovakia
Mr. Daniele Capezzone, Italy
The Honorable Per Carlsen, Institute of International Affairs, Denmark
Ms. Gunilla Carlsson, Member of Parliament, Sweden
Dr. Ivo Daalder, Brookings Institution, United States
The Honorable Massimo D'Alema, Former Prime Minister, Italy
Mr. Pavol Demes, Former Foreign Minister, Slovakia
Dr. Larry Diamond, United States
His Excellency Philip Dimitrov, Former Prime Minister, Bulgaria
Mr. Thomas Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute, United States
Mr. Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, United States Mr. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Former Foreign Minister, Denmark
Ms. Helga Flores Trejo, Heinrich Böll Foundation of North America, United States
Dr. Francis Fukuyama, United States (!! NO MORE HISTORY ??!!)
Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin, Aspen Institute Berlin, Germany
Prof. Bronislaw Geremek, Former Foreign Affairs Minister and Member of European
Parliament, Poland
Dr. Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy, United States
The Honorable Marc Ginsberg, United States
Mr. Andre Glucksmann, Writer, France
Dr. Phil Gordon, Brookings Institution, United States
The Honorable Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg, Member of Parliament, Germany
The Honorable Istvan Gyarmati, Institute for Euro-Atlanticism and Democracy, Hungary
Mr. Pierre Hassner, Center for International Studies and Research, France
His Excellency Vaclav Havel, Former President, Czech Republic
The Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke, Former Ambassador to the United Nations, United
States
The Honorable Toomas Ilves, Former Foreign Minister and Member of European Parliament,
Estonia
Mr. Bruce Jackson, Project on Transitional Democracies, United States
Dr. Donald Kagan, Yale University, United States
Mr. Robert Kagan, United States
Mr. Jerzy Kozminski, Former Ambassador to the United States, Poland
Mr. Craig Kennedy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, United States
Ms. Glenys Kinnock, Member of European Parliament, United Kingdom
Dr. Bernard Kouchner, Former UN Special Envoy to Kosovo, France
Dr. Ivan Krastev, Center for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria
Mr. William Kristol, Project for the New American Century, United States
The Honorable Girts Valdis Kristovskis, Former Minister of Defense, Latvia
Prof. Dr. Ludger Kuehnhardt, University of Bonn, Germany
The Honorable Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister, Estonia
The Honorable Vytautas Landsbergis, former President and Member of European Parliament,
Lithuania
Dr. Stephen Larrabee, RAND Corporation, United States
Mr. Mark Leonard, The Foreign Policy Center, United Kingdom
The Honorable Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Member of European Parliament,
Germany
Mr. Tod Lindberg, Policy Review, United States
Mr. Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch, United States
Mr. Will Marshall, Progressive Policy Institute, United States
Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos, University of Potsdam, Germany
Mr. Clifford May, United States
The Honorable John McCain, Senator, United States
Dr. Michael McFaul, United States
Mr. Matteo Mecacci, Italy
Mr. Mark Medish, Former Senior Director of the National Security Council, United States
Mr. Thomas O. Melia, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, United States
Dr. Sarah E. Mendelson, United States
Mr. Michael Mertes, Dimap Consult, Germany
The Honorable Ilir Meta, Former Prime Minister, Albania
Mr. Adam Michnik, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
The Honorable Richard Morningstar, Former Ambassador to the EU, United States
Dr. Joshua Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute, United States
Gen. Klaus Naumann (ret.), Former Chairman NATO Military Committee, Germany
The Honorable Dietmar Nietan, Member of Parliament, Germany
Mr. James O’Brien, Former Presidential Envoy to the Balkans, United States
The Honorable Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Member of European Parliament, Poland
The Honorable Cem Ozdemir, Member of European Parliament, Germany
Dr. Can Paker, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, Turkey
Ambassador Mark Palmer, Capital Development Company, LLC, United States
Mr. Martin Peretz, United States
The Honorable Dr. Friedbert Pflueger, Member of Parliament, Germany
Ms. Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute, United States
Mr. Florentino Portero, Strategic Studies Group, Spain
Ms. Samantha Ravich, Phd, Long Term Strategy Project, United States
The Honorable Janusz Reiter, Center for International Relations, Poland
The Honorable Alex Rondos, Former Ambassador, Greece
The Honorable Jim Rosapepe, Former Ambassador to Romania, United States
Dr. Jacques Rupnik, Center for International Studies and Research, France
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany
Mr. Randy Scheunemann, Project for the New American Century, United States
The Honorable Christian Schmidt, Member of Parliament, Germany
Dr. Gary Schmitt, Project for the New American Century, United States
Dr. Simon Serfaty, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
The Honorable Stephen Sestanovich, United States
Mr. Radek Sikorski, American Enterprise Institute, United States
Mr. Stefano Silvestri, Institute for International Affairs, Italy
Mr. Martin Simecka, Editor, Slovakia
Dr. Gary Smith, American Academy in Berlin, Germany
Dr. Abraham Sofaer, Hoover Institution, United States
Mr. James Steinberg, The Brookings Institution, United States
Mr. Gary Titley, Member of European Parliament, United Kingdom
Mr. Ivan Vejvoda, Fund for Open Society, Serbia
The Honorable Sasha Vondra, Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Czech Republic
Dr. Celeste Wallander, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
Prof. Ruth Wedgwood, United States
Dr. Richard Weitz, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, United States
Mr. Kenneth Weinstein, Hudson Institute, United States
Ms. Jennifer Windsor, Freedom House, United States
Mr. R. James Woolsey, United States
Anymore signed up for Gaza????IDF Snipers were also reported taking up positions on the houses' rooftops to shoot at civilians........