http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29519 First Published 2009-01-02 How Obama Lost Control of Iraq Policy There is a continued military insistence on a conditions-based approach to a US withdrawal from Iraq that is part of a broader plan by Bush...
The WESPAC Committee for Justice & Peace in the Middle East is a group of concerned people from the Westchester County area formed to educate the general community, promote open discussion and dialogue and advocate for just solutions to the current destructive situations in the Middle East, particularly in Palestine/Israel. WESPAC supports the call by over 200 Palestinian civil society organizations for punitive measures including boycotts, divestment, and sanctions to be maintained until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian People’s inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law. We call for an end to all occupations in the region. The committee meets regularly and invites participation from the public. Please contact the office at 914.449.6514 or email [email protected] for more information.
Pity the Neocons
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29532 First Published 2009-01-03 Pity the Poor Neocons All the neocons have left now is to cheer the Israeli air force as it, in effect, shoots fish in a barrel, i.e. blasting away at selected Palestinian targets...
Depleted Uranium in Gaza
Jan. 4, 2009 Dear all, According to some media reports, GBU-39 with depleted uranium has been used in the Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip. Pasted below is the information we have at the moment. Please let us know if you have more information regarding this...
On Solidarity and Sexual Violence
http://necessarymeansfight.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-solidarity-and-sexual-violence-open.html On Solidarity and Sexual Violence: An open letter to the Palestine Solidarity Movement The explosion of media coverage of sexual assault and community response to gender...
The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
The Gaza Ghetto Uprising Joseph Massad, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2009 Nazi troops round up Polish Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. (Photographer Unknown) One is often baffled by the ironies of international relations and the alliances they...
Selective Terrorism
I am getting literally dozens of messages every day now on the Israeli action in Gaza. Many are excellent and yet the tv and newspapers in the U.S. continually approach the situation much like they did in the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The...
Cynthia McKinney on Gaza trip
January 1, 2009 - We Lived to Tell the Story: Lebanon Rescued Us Yesterday, we met with the President of Lebanon, the Chief of the Military, and the Interior Minister who all thanked us for responding and risking our lives on a mission of mercy; we profusely...
Online Book on Zionism
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/
Gaza in the Sea
As if I wrote it for today web site: http://aabusrour.blogspot.com Gaza in the Sea What would you like to see? Gaza sinking in the sea? So you can jump, sing and dance And for each hill and colony announce What a triumph against terrorism? We manage to...
Party to Murder
Party to Murder The nearest analog to Gaza in modern times is the Warsaw Ghetto. Chris Hedges Truthdig December 29, 2008 “It is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe that each day poses the entire 1.5 million Gazans to an unspeakable ordeal, to a struggle to survive...
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WESPAC Foundation has secured the screening rights to make the documentary Who Killed Alex Odeh? available to our community for one day. This film is deeply personal to me. I was a high school student here in Westchester County at Horace Greeley when Alex Odeh, a Palestinian American civil rights leader and regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was assassinated by a bomb planted at his office in Santa Ana, California, on October 11, 1985. I remember how deeply disturbing it was to learn of his murder, and I remain profoundly shaken by the fact that, more than four decades later, no one has been brought to justice. Even more troubling is the history of suspects who were able to leave the United States without facing prosecution. For me, Alex Odeh’s murder came to symbolize something that Palestinians have experienced for generations: a devastating sense that those who take Palestinian lives can do so with impunity. That failure of accountability has continued to haunt our people, culminating in the mass killing and destruction we have witnessed in Gaza over these past several years. When violence against Palestinians goes unpunished, it sends a dangerous message that Palestinian lives are somehow less worthy of protection, dignity, and justice. I hope our WESPAC community will take the time to watch this important film with me on December 2nd at 7pm at WESPAC, reflect on the decades of injustice it exposes, and recommit ourselves to the principle that every human life is sacred and that justice must never depend on one’s nationality, ethnicity, or identity.Wednesday, December 2nd at 7pm at WESPAC77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2WWhite Plains, NY 10607
Come out on Sunday and support the Yonkers Sanctuary Movement!
Celebrating Community, Art, Music & Our Shared Commitment to JusticeThursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:00 PMWESPAC Foundation77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2WWhite Plains, NY 10607Dear WESPAC Friends, Members, and Community Partners,We warmly invite you to join us for WESPAC’s Annual Meeting of Members, an evening of community, reflection, inspiring art, live music, and renewed commitment to building a more just, peaceful, and compassionate world.At a time when our collective voices, creativity, and solidarity matter so deeply, we look forward to gathering with old friends and new, sharing a meal, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities before us, and celebrating the extraordinary power of ordinary people to shape history. Full details at www.wespac.org