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The Children of Iraq: 1990-1997 |
| Issue: 1997, Volume 30, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Human Rights|Iraq|Politics|War/Conflict |
| Author: Kelly, Kathy |
| Issue Description: More Iraqi children have died as a result of our sanctions on Iraq than the combined toll of two atomic bombs on Japan and the recent scourge of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. Kathy Kelly, it should be noted, is a pacifist She's against all wars. But her article is about these children. And the legitimate question for all peoples of good will, pacifist or not, American or not, is whether the preventable deaths of over 600,000 children under 5 years of age is an appropriate sanction to levy on any country, anywhere, any time? |
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AMEU's 30th Anniversary Issue |
| Issue: 1997, Volume 30, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Anniversary Issue |
| Author: Various Authors |
| Issue Description: For the 30th anniversary issue of The Link, eight authors were invited to update readers on their earlier articles. Contributors are Lynda Brayer, Norman Finkelstein, James Graff, Grace Halsell, Rosina Hassoun, Kathleen Kern, Daniel McGowan, and Don Wagner. |
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U. S. Aid to Israel: The Subject No One Mentions |
| Issue: 1997, Volume 30, Issue 4 |
| Subject: Politics|U.S. Aid |
| Author: Curtiss, Richard |
Issue Description: The United States has leverage over Israel— annual grants and loans in the billions of dollars— if it ever chooses to exercise it. In addition to the familiar figure of $3 billion or so that is handed over every year to Israel, the true cost to the American taxpayer is far more. From 1949 through October, 1997, benefits to Israel from U.S. aid totaled nearly $85-billion, including grants, loans, “non-foreign aid,”and interest Israel accrued by receiving its foreign aid as a lump sum early in the fiscal year
(rather than quarterly as is the case with all other foreign aid recipients). It cost American taxpayers $50-billion in interest costs to provide that aid. In that time period, Israelis received nearly $15,000 per citizen from the U.S. alone, and more than $20,000 when German assistance is included. |
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Hebron's Theater of the Absurd |
| Issue: 1996, Volume 29, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Christianity|Hebron|Human Rights|Settlements |
| Author: Kern, Kathleen |
Issue Description: “. . . some broke ranks and attacked a line of Christian women peace activists who regularly placed themselves between the Jews and Palestinians, knocking two of them down and dragging them by their hair”was how The New York Times described a group of Jews led by Yigal Amir, the confessed assassin of Prime Minister Rabin, as he swaggered into Hebron. We thought that the U.S. media would have descended upon these women to get their eyewitness account, the assassination being,
after all, a major story. One of the women, Kathleen Kern, was even back in the country for a few weeks. But when we tracked her down, she said we were the only publication to ask for her story. |
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Meanwhile in Lebanon |
| Issue: 1996, Volume 29, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Lebanon|War/Conflict |
| Author: Irani, George |
| Issue Description: The target was a school bus. Twenty-five children, returning from school, with flowers. It was Mother’s Day 1994. Had the explosion occurred in Israel, it would have made news. As it was, it happened in South Lebanon. Part of South Lebanon still bleeds under Israel’s military occupation, while 450,000 refugees in Lebanon, most of them clustered in 12 camps, struggle not to despair. As the world focuses on Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon, its seems, has been forgotten. |
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