[Prefatory Note: Below is a Letter to Members of Congress with an initial group of signatories; there are many more that have been gathered but not listed here. If you wish to add your signature, please send your name and affiliation to Vida Samiian, vidasamiian@gmail.com who helped compose the original text, and now with the logistics of the initiative. If you agree with the argument, please do join us by adding your name.
The Letter was composed prior to the Iranian missile attacks on two American military bases in Iraq and before Trump made his formal statement the following day, January 8th. Although his statement can is being read in many ways, including the suggestion that Trump’s intention was to step back from the brink of a devastating war. I listened to Trump from my own perspective and with an attempt to hear his words as if I were an Iranian living in Iran. I found the statement belligerent, and formulated in an imperialist/hegemonic language, avoiding a diplomatic sequel, and instead resuming the ‘maximum pressure’ approach involving threats and further intensified sanctions and other coercive moves that will bring additional suffering to the Iranian people. Perhaps, the only hopeful element was the suggestion that Trump would seek greater NATO involvement coupled with the assertion of American energy independence. This may possibly have been a geopolitical prelude to partial disengagement in the region by the United States, but more likely was telling European countries that they should bear a greater part of the economic burden of upholding Western interests In the region since they remain dependent on Middle Eastern energy to meet their needs, while the United States no longer does. In any event, the Trump moves would undoubtedly be viewed as provocative, unacceptable, and aggressive by Iranians.
Among the most distasteful aspects of Trump’s speech was his castigation of Barack Obama’s laudable attempt to negotiate a tension-reducing agreement with Iran on its nuclear program that had the support of France, UK, as well as China, Russia, and Germany. To deride such a major breakthrough for a better future for the region, while perpetuating a war-mongering approach underscores why it continues to be so urgent for Congress to act.
This is the latest update with additional signatories.]
OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS[1]
January 7, 2020
To Members of the United States Congress:
The unlawful and provocative assassination of Iran’s top general, Qasem Soleimani, has already given rise to an escalating spiral of lethal events. The greatest risks are to stumble escalating into a devastating war in the Middle East with grave consequences for the peoples of Iran and Iraq and likely across the region. Such a war would have disastrous effects for this country, for the region and the world. It is certain to do further harm to the reputation of the United States, which already is perceived in much of the world as an irresponsible and criminal political actor in the region, using military force in ways that have made already difficult situations catastrophic by taking various dangerous military, economic and quasi-diplomatic initiatives misleadingly presented as “maximum pressure.”
It is imperative for the well-being of our country, and indeed the world, that the Congress of the United States fulfill its most solemn constitutional responsibility, and impose effective restraints on the war-making actions of this impeached president. This is a moment when partisan politics should be put aside, not only for the sake of national interests but for the benefit of humanity – -we should realize that these unilateral actions by the United States have put the entire world at risk. It is also a moment when Republicans as well as Democrats must stand up for a sane foreign policy, and for diplomacy and peace instead of aggression and war, and fulfill their duties as Members of Congress.
The Iranian people have endured decades of economic warfare waged by the US and its allies. Since the revolution of 1979 in Iran and the end of a mutually beneficial relationship between the US and Iran’s autocratic leader, the Shah, the US has imposed numerous sanctions on Iran under various guises, threatened it with war and inflicted pain and suffering on its people. What is desperately needed with respect to Iran is not any further recourse to coercive diplomacy based on escalating threats, crippling sanctions, and tit-for-tat military actions. What is urgently needed is an immediate shift to restorative diplomacy based on mutual respect for international and domestic law, with the objective of peace, stability, and cooperation.
From all what we now know, General Soleimani had come to Iraq without stealth on a commercial plane. He came to Iraq on a diplomatic peacemaking mission at the invitation of the Baghdad Government, and with a meeting scheduled on the following day with the Prime Minister that was part of an ongoing effort to seek a lessening of tensions between Iran and
Saudi Arabia. In reaction to major violations of its sovereignty, the Iraqi Parliament has voted to expel U.S. troops from their country. In place of what seemed a promising regional initiative the assassination of General Soleimani has resulted in an intensification of conflict, further massive suffering, and the likelihood of dangerous escalation.
We call on Congress to act with urgency to stem this slide toward war and regional chaos.
We urge you to consider imposing ironclad restraints on the authority of the President to make any further use of international force without a clear and definite authorization by the U.S. Congress, which itself should respect the relevant prohibitions of international law and the provisions and procedures of the UN Charter.
Richard Falk
Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law
Princeton University
Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies
Noam Chomsky
Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair University of Arizona
Daniel Ellsberg
Former Official of State & Defense Department
Whistleblower, Pentagon Papers
Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature
University of California, Berkeley
Medea Benjamin
Founder, Code Pink Author
Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies and Jewish Voice for Peace
Professor Hilal Elver
Research Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vida Samiian
Visiting Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Linguistics and Dean Emerita
California State University, Fresno
Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A. Editor, TRANSCEND Media Service
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Co-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1985 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility
Celso Amorim
Author and retired Diplomat
Brazil
Christine Ahn
Executive Director
Women Cross DMZ
Rick Wayman
President & CEO
Nuclear Age peace Foundation
Frank Bognar, D.P.A.
Vice Chair, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Douglas Roche, O.C.
Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
David Krieger, President Emeritus Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Peter Kuznick, Professor of History
Director, Institute of Nuclear Studies American University
Biljana Vankovska, Professor
University of Skopje, Macedonia
Bogdan Bogdanov, Professor
University of Skopje, Macedonia
Ahmad Abbas, Mathematician
Research Director at CNRS, France
Maria Stern, Professor
School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden
Joel Beinin
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus
Stanford University
Stephan Andersson
Independent Bertrand Russell scholar, Lund, Sweden John Scales Avery, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
University of Copenhagen
Chairman, Danish National Group
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Rev. Kil Sang Yoon
Executive Advisor
Korean American national Coordinating Council, Inc.
Jeremy R. Hammond
Independent journalist Editor of Foreign Policy Journal Author of Obstacle to Peace:
The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Maxine Fookson, RN
Board member of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Western Executive Committee of American Friends Service Committee
Frederik S. Heffermehl
Oslo Lawyer/author
Nobel Peace Prize Watch
Vincent Stanley Author, Poet
David Hillstrom, Author
Rabbi Linda Holtzman
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Thomas G. Weiss
Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Presidential Professor of Political Science
The CUNY Graduate Center
Ervand Abrahamian
Professor Emeritus
City University of New York
Professor Rabab Abdulhadi
Director and Senior Scholar
Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies
San Francisco State University
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
Olga Abella
Emeritus Professor of English
Eastern Illinois University
Suzanne Adely
National Lawyers Guild
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Stephan Andersson
Independent Bertrand Russell scholar
Lund, Sweden
Walid Afifi
Professor of Communication
University of California Santa Barbara
Kevin B. Anderson
University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard Appelbaum, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus and
Former MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mohammad Azadpur
Professor of Philosophy San Francisco State University
Bahar Bastani, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine, Saint Louis University
Dr. Hatem Bazian
UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College
Eileen Boris
Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor
Department of Feminist Studies
Professor of History, Black Studies and Global Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Jaap C. Bos
Professor of Psychology Utrecht University
Marian and Leslie Bravery
Palestinian Human Rights Campaign
Aotearoa, New Zealand
Carole H. Browner
Distinguished Research Professor
Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies
Center for Culture and Health
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles
Edmund Burke III
Professor Emeritus of History
University of California, Santa Cruz
Karen Brodkin
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
Sara Cvetkovska
ERCOMER, Utrecht University
Valentina Capurri
Instructor, Ryerson University Toronto, Canada
Swati Chattopadhyay
University of California, Santa Barbara
Maivan Clech Lam
Professor Emerita
City University of New York Graduate Center
Margery Cohen
Professor Emerita
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Carla Coco
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Ali Dabiri
Founder and President of Dr. Modjtahedi Foundation Retired Professor of Sharif University of Technology of Iran
Diana G. Darab, Ph.D.
Health Research for Action
University of California, Berkeley
Natalie Z. Davis
Professor Emeritus
Princeton University
James Deutsch MD, PhD, FRCPC
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Judith Deutsch, President
Science for Peace
Julie Diamond
Center for Worker Education, CCNY New York
Gordon Doctorow, Ed.D. Toronto, Canada
Dr. Vincent Duindam, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Utrecht University
Omnia El Shakry
Professor of History
University of California, Davis
Sasan Fayazmanesh
Professor Emeritus of Economics
California State University, Fresno
Faramarz Farbod
Writer and editor at Left Turn
Adjunct faculty of Political Science
Moravian College
Nina Farnia
Past President
National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Gary Fields, Professor of Communication University of California, San Diego
Shepard Forman, Founding Director
Center for International Cooperation New York University
Manzar Foroohar, Professor Emerita
History and Latin American Studies
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Margaret Ferguson
Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita
University of California, Davis
Aranye Fradenburg Joy
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nancy Gallagher
Professor Emerita of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jolien Geerlings
Utrecht University
The Netherlands
Jila Ghomeshi, Professor and Department Head
Department of Linguistics University of Manitoba
Professor Penny Green
Head of Department of Law
Professor of Law and Globalisation
Director, International State Crime Initiative
Queen Mary University of London
Magda Gilewicz
Professor of English
California State University, Fresno
Avery F. Gordon
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Visiting Professor, School of Law
Birkbeck University of London
William Hastings
Assoc Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Fordham University
Maryam Shayegan Hastings
Emerita Professor of Mathematics
Fordham University
Ivan Huber
Professor Emeritus of Biology Fairleigh Dickinson University
Professor George Hunsinger
Princeton Theological Seminary
Suad Joseph
University of California, Davis
Prya Kapoor
Portland State University
David Kinsella
Portland State University
David Klein
Professor of Mathematics
California State University, Northridge
Dennis Kortheuer
Department of History, Emeritus
California State University, Long Beach
Richard K. Larson
Professor of Linguistics
Stony Brook University
Professor Anna Leander
The Graduate Institute
Dept. of International Relations and Political Science
Chenin Eugene Rigot 2, Geneva
Mark Levine
University of California, Irvine
David Lloyd
Distinguished Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Dr. Brooke Lober
Scholar-in-Residence, Gender and Women’s Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Paul M Lubeck
Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Afshin Matin-Asgari
Professor of Middle East History
California State University, Los Angeles
Blanca Misse
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
San Francisco State University
Akbar Montaser
Professor Emeritus
The George Washington University
Kathleen Moore
Professor of Religious Studies
UC Santa Barbara
Patricia Morton
University of California, Riverside
Radmila Nakarada
Professor of Peace Studies University of Belgrade
Jamal R. Nassar
Professor of Political Science and Dean Emeritus
California State University, San Bernardino
Srkja Pavlovic
Department of History and Classics
University of Alberta
Ismail Poonawala
Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Elisabeth Prugl
Professor of International Relations
Graduate Institute, Geneva
David N. Rahni
Professor of Chemistry
Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Law and Urban Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Craig Reinarman
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
Rush Rehm
Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and Classics
Artistic Director, Stanford Repertory Theater
Stanford University
Stephen Roddy
Professor of Chinese Studies
San Francisco State University
Lisa Rofel
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Co-Director, Center for Emerging Worlds
University of California Santa Cruz
Co-Director, California Scholars for Academic Freedom
Cesar “che” Rodriguez, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies
San Francisco State University
Muhammad Sahimi
Professor of Chemical Engineering University of Southern California
Professor William Spence, QMUL
Carole Saltz
Director (retired)
Teachers College Press
Leyli Shayegan
Retired Assistant Director
Teachers College Press
Carole Snee,
Retired Director of ESL
California State University, Fresno
Baki Tezcan
University of California, Davis
Azadeh Saljooghi, Ph.D., MFA
Retired faculty of Communications and Film Studies
Mark Lewis Taylor
Maxwell M. Professor of Theology and Culture
Princeton Theological Seminary
Devra Weber
Emerita Professor of History
University of California, Riverside
Ryan J. Fisher
University of California, Santa Barbara
Eve Hershcopf
Member, Jewish Voice for Peace- Bay Area
Penny Rosenwasser
Author, Instructor, Interdisciplinary Studies
City College of San Francisco
Marlena Santoyo
Greater Philadelphia Branch
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Outreach Coordinator
Kelly Patrick Gerling, Seattle
Judy Neunuebel
Jewish Voice for Peace
George Marx
Chicago, IL
Beth Harris
Member, Jewish Voice for Peace National Board
Janet Kobren
Human Rights Activist
Susan Shawl
Member, Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area chapter
David L. Mandel, Sacramento
Human rights attorney
Chapter leader, Jewish Voice for Peace
Elected member, California Democratic Party Central Committee
Sophie Moradi
An opponent of never-ending wars
Henry Norr
Activist and retired Journalist
Mario Galvan
Board member, Sacramento Area Peace Action
Pathma Venasithamby
Jewish Voice for Peace
Carol Sanders
Retired Attorney
Member, Jewish Voice for Peace
Elizabeth Block
Member of Independent Jewish Voice
Molly Hogan
Jewish Voice for Peace
Martha Roth
Independent Jewish Voices
Pam Rogers
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Jewish Voice for Peace
Linval R. DePass
Member, Jewish Voice for Peace
Angela Price
Fresno Center for Nonviolence
Masoud Chamasemani
Actor and TV Producer
Pauline M. Coffman Oak Park, IL
Eve Darian-Smith
Layla Darwish
Palestine Freedom Project
Shahla Dashtaki Fulton, MO
Natalie Z. Davis
Marcela Jurado
Priscilla Read
Chicago
Gertrude Reagan
Palo Alto Friends Meeting
Bob Aldridge
World War II Veteran
Newland F. Smith, 3rd
Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Ned Rosch
Human Rights Activist who lived and worked in Iran
Parizad Torgoli
Rev. Don Wagner
Friends of Sabeel-North America
Parisa Afshar
American-Iranian who opposes any kind of war with Iran
Richard Lew Independent Contractor Reza Sheybani, M.D.
Eugene Schulman
Independent dissident
Susan Stout
Activist, Vancouver
Mark Winterrowd
John Whitbeck
International Law Expert
Cindy Shamban
Member of Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area
Nancy Murray
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Marge Sussman
Member, Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area
[1] Although members of the U.S. Congress formally represent citizens of the United States, the global role and activities of the United States are such that the peoples of the world are often directly impacted. As a result nonAmericans have a vital stake in the adherence of American foreign policy to international law and the Charter of The United Nations, and were invited to sign our Open Letter and join in this appeal to Congress.
Global Justice in the 21st Century 
US assassinates Solomon-I, in Iraq, in a Quasi-Shia State, in the wee hours of the morning.
Y would a Iranian Gen – who is anti-Israel and America, fly from a Commercial/Military Airport in Iraq – when the US embassy was firebombed just a few days ago ? He would have known that all his e-signatures would be tracked by the Americans,second by second,and there would be no dearth of spies at the hangar,ATC,Airport who would ply the Americans with precise coordinates of the General’s flight patterns ?
Surely after the US embassy bombing the Good General would have been told by his team to exit Iraq ? Could a general be so careless or foolish – that he would think that he could exit from a designated airport,after the US embassy escapade – and with another designated terrorist (designed by USA) – with makes it a double prime target – and with no collateral baggage ? In ISIS days – he was fighting with the Americans – and those days are over.
Persian Shia’ism is not a suicide cult – it appears to be one – but it is not.So the general was misled into complacency and entrapped by some , in the Iraqi state, to take that flight – and the US embassy firebombing might also have been a false flag operation as the US troops shot no one – id.est., no firebomber was killed.But the sons of Xerxes and Cyrus cannot be so naive and foolish.The General would not have boarded that plane unless he was secured by the Russians and Tehran.2000 years ago, the Jews inserted a fake verse into the Old Testament and Talmud – to state that Cyrus was the messiah- and showed it to Cyrus – who like a fool, believed it, and rebuilt the Temple !The General had read the Torah,Talmud,Hebrew Bible and the History of the Jews and the Nassara
CNN portrays the killing as a “Trump rash reaction” – but it is not.Ultimately,the USA will go to war with Iran – as the Americans do not trust the Persian Shias – on the N-Bomb,and the Persians do not trust the Jews or the Nassara. Soleimani was just the catalyst to push the Persians into the N- Suspension, and go full N-throttle – which is what the Persians have done – and which is what the Americans wanted.
Iraqi govtt will kick out the US troops and the US troops will not leave – as that is what the Americans (and Kurds,Nassara,Sunnis) really want.To be precise, the Kurds,Suniis do not want the Yankii to leave – but that they be asked to leave – so that their mortal fears of living under Persian Shias is brought to the fore – for a partition of the Iraqi state
What the Americans want is to trifurcate Iraq – which will happen inevitably post Soleimani – and which is what the Persians also seek,although the Persians would like to Shia-ise the whole of Iraq.Persian security interests are preserved by destabilising and burning Iraq to create a “sea of fire” between them and the US/Israel and satellite Hezbollahs all over the Gulf,especially encircling the Saudis (The Soleimani Doctrine).But now,they will be happy with a trifurcation
After trifurcating Itaq the Persians will export their franchise and the brand to all Shia regions in GCC and Africa (where the USA has lesser troops and even lesser interest).Even the EU/PRC will be pleased – and this will look like an amicable solution (already crafted) – after creating a well planned disaster (assassinating Soleimani)
There was no inpending attack by Soleimani – just lies and deception of the American state.There are many heads of Terror Groups in the Gulf who can be killed, with or w/o collateral impact – but they are never taken out – not even by Israel or ISIS (Israel Secret Intel Service).The Americans chose a Persian Shia,when the whole Sunni world hates Persia and the Persia Shian, and killed him in a Quasi Shia State – and so there is no empathy or support for the Persians – even after the assassination – not even from Russia and PRC.
Obviously,the Russians,PRC,EU would have known – and they did not tip off the Persians and the Americans shot off 4 Hell Fire’s – and THERE WAS NO COLLATERAL PRESENCE AT THE AIRPORT AT THAT TIME. A marked man would travel in the presence of ample collateral baggage – like the Hamas and Hezb, do in Gaza – to provoke Collateral damage,and then the Christian empathy,by Amanpour on CNN
The Persians have launched a muffled attack at a site which it knows, hosts no Americans, using missiles which have the capacity to hit US barracks,and knowing that the site hosts Iraqis – where the Iranians had ample intel and time to affix missile coordinates for the terminal descent – and they did not.The Persians used BM with intent,SO THAT THE AMERICANS could track their launch and loading and set up – AND THE AMERICANS did NOT TAKE OUT THE LAUNCHERS AND SILOS – before take off.
The whole story stinks and if it ends with the Persian missile strike – it will stink even more.Odds are there will be more strikes by the Persians and US will make 1 strike (at least) on Persian soil – to further aggravate the Persians into the N-Bomb – and then disaster will come when either side hits civilians by plan or strategy
A few days ago,the Iranian media mentioned the US blowing up of a Iranian Airliner long ago.Coincidentally,a NATO nation – Article 5 nation – had its commercial aircraft blown up in Tehran- with no survivors – at take off time – with all tanks full,Ukraine is a nation that Trump and the USA have sworn to protect.
Just providence of coincidence and incidence.No one is reporting on the passenger list – surely there would no Shias on the plane.
The Nassara do not understand 1 simple thing.For the Persians and also the Sunnis,the path to salvation and evolution, as per Shia Theology and Philosophy – goes via the Bed of Armageddon – as that is when the Mehdi will return
As an aside, the Hindoos sent a terror-spy to Pakistan, via Iran, on the cover of a port project.The spy was busted in Pakistan.Hindoo History and Persian History shows that whenever, the Persians support the Hindoos or Indians – some disaster occurs.Soleimani supported the Indian Terror-Spy.
The wisdom of the “children of Cyrus,Darius and Xerxes”,encapsulates the “transcendence of Human thought”, the “Deuterosis of the Dindoo”, as under:
A “Persian dictionary”,titled “Lughet-e-Kishwari”,published in Lucknow in 1964,gives the meaning of the word Hindu as “chore [thief], dakoo [dacoit], raahzan [waylayer], and ghulam [slave].
Evidently the Gates of Hell are ajar.In essence,the world is overpopulated.If The Indians and South East Asians (besides Thai women) were to disappear,the Garden of Eden would return.Then there are Arabs,who allow Hindoos in their nation and let them build temples in Arab nations and extol Hindoo Gods – such vermin should also die.dindooohindoo
And then there are Muslims – who will not answer 1 simple question – Was Soleimani a Mujahid and now a Shaheed.Soleimani- the Persian,named after Solomon-the son of David-David the messiah of Israel.
Solomon bore the Curse of Allah on the Jews – as per the Hebrew Bible – id.est the Jews are cursed by Allah,due to the sins of Solomon.
Y did the Russians and Tehran not protect Soleimani ? They allowed him to be killed .
Thank you Richard. An excellent initiative and an excellent letter. I just emailed Vida to add my name, if possible.
Very best,
David
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Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk and Daniel Ellsberg constitute a collective conscience and moral-ethical vanguard among intellectuals the world over, serving, as they have for decades, as role models. One of the things I am proudest of in life, is to have made Richard’s personal acquaintance and to have the privilege of calling him a friend. As for Chomsky and Ellsberg, I grew up regarding them as heroes (which I still do), together with Daniel and Phillip Berrigan. To my mind, Richard has the moral compulsions and imperatives, and fulfills the role of an Old Testament prophet, in our time.
As always, Dayan, thanks for your generous words and support. We need your distinctive progressive voice
on how to move forward, and avoid the hazard of becoming a planetary wilderness. I hope that now freed from
diplomatic duties you will write a manifesto for a human and humane future asap!
Dear Richard, the freedom from the diplomatic yoke comes this time next week, which is why my signature is not yet on your statement! Thank you for the vote of confidence and guidance. I shall certainly try. In the meantime, I hope that the new anthology that Victor and you have edited on ‘Public Imagination’ and Ethics is widely reviewed and well received, because it does contain the rudiments of a manifesto for a far better world. Every aspirant Democratic candidate this year must surely read it, but will they?
No one who welcomes and praises the debased creatures who vilify Jews as such on this website is part of anyone’s collective conscience or moral-ethical vanguard, nor is anyone who compares barbaric Arab terrorists who blow apart women and children in buses and restaurants to the French and Dutch partisans.
no, we love the Jewish snipers who murder nonviolent demonstrators, and kill 500 Palestinian kids at a whack. you definitely own the moral high ground.
Do you mean 40,000 violent demonstrators among whom were thousands of armed terrorists, all with the declared aim of overrunning the border and murdering or kidnapping as many Israelis as possible, of whom 190 were killed in the past year, with 80% claimed by Hamas as their own fighters (until they were told that it would be wiser not to advertise that little fact)? You never get anything right, do you?
Professor, some say Israel had a hand in Soleimami’s assassination, some say Israel controls the US Congress, some even say that President Trump is an Israeli puppet.
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Donald Trump publicly stated that his administration’s Middle East policy – including the illegal U.S military occupation of nearly a third of Syria, the administration’s adoption of aggressive Iranian sanctions, and Trump’s response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi – is not driven by his country’s interest in oil but instead to benefit the interests of the state of Israel.
Dear Professor Falk,
Needless to say, my name is on the list. Another swipe at Obama? That goes along with the phone call to Duterte, in which the Donald bad-mouths Barack, as he buddies up to yet another mass murderer. Donald’s boy welcomes Russian help to elect his dad (“I love it”), then Don senior goes from ACCEPTING foreign help with his campaign to SOLICITING it. When do we add treason to the impeachment articles??
I certainly agree that the war practices of U.S. presidents should be reined in by Congress. In a democracy, no single person should be able to take the country into a war. Appeals to the AUMFs of 2001 and 2002 are a joke in 2020!
In the present case, appeal to the imminent-threat exception seems to have been nothing more than a vacuous pretext.
—Don E. Scheid
I strongly support this letter!!