The Link Catalog For “Clickable” Access to All Archived Issues Updated with Each New Issue Americans for Middle East Understanding 475 Riverside Drive, Room 245, New York, NY 10115-0245 ■ Tele: 212-870-2053 ■ Email: [email protected] ■ www.ameu.org 2021, Volume 54 Issue 1: The Decolonizing of Palestine Towards a One-State Solution, Jeff Halper Author Jeff Halper immigrated to Israel in 1973, where he taught anthropology at Haifa and Ben-Gurion Universities. In 1997, he co-founded the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. This is his fifth feature article for The Link. His third, in 2012, concluded that the Two-State Solution was dead; his fourth, last year, documented the influence of the Israeli military on U.S. police training. This present article is based on his forthcoming book Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine. To order his book, please go to the publisher’s website: www.plutobooks.com. While Jeff Halper is a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), he wants to make it clear that this article is his analysis, and that it reflects in good faith the views and intentions of his comrades. In 2006, Jeff Halper was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Issue 2: How Long Will Israel Get Away With It?, Haim Bresheeth-Zabner A former officer in the Israeli army takes a critical look at the Israel Defense Forces and asks how long will this colonial state get away with it? Issue 3: On A RANT, Sam Bahour The dictionary describes rant as a noisy jollification. If you've never been on one, now's a good time to start. Issue 4: Our Archives, John Mahoney In early 1967, six Americans met to form an organization they called Americans for Middle East Understanding. In August of this year, AMEU’s Board of Directors selected Nicholas Griffin to be the organization’s fourth Executive Director in 54 years. In this issue of The Link, our bimonthly publication, retiring Executive Director, John Mahoney, welcomes Nicholas to the job and invites all of us, as we look to the future, to take a few minutes to visit our half-century old archive, where the past has something important to tell us. 2020, Volume 53 Issue 1: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, David Sheen Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of the newly released book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine." We invited Professor Khalidi to write a feature article for The Link based on his book. Here, with gratitude, is our March 2020 issue, likewise entitled "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine." Issue 2: Updated: The Latest on the Suspected Murderers of Alex Odeh, Rashid Khalidi Whatever happened to the suspected murderers of Alex Odeh? Our April-May issue of The Link investigates. Issue 3: Palestinian Christians, Jonathan Cook In 1947, 85% of Bethlehem's population was Christian, with 15% Muslim. Today 85% of Bethlehem is Muslim and 15% Christian. Why the dramatic reversal? That is the subject of our July-August Link. Issue 4: The ONE-STATE REALITY and the REAL MEANING of ANNEXATION, Ian S. Lustick Ian Lustick holds the Bess Hayman Chair in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest book is Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality, on which his article for The Link is based. Issue 5: Israelizing the American Police, Palestinianizing the American People, Jeff Halper Let’s begin with a cautionary tale. When suicide bombers connected to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) set off bombs in the Brussels airport in March 2016, the Israeli government did not convey its condolences as most other governments did. 2019, Volume 52 Issue 1: Jews Step Forward, Marjorie J. Wright At a time when 26 states have passed some form of pro-Israel legislation requiring a loyalty oaths to Israel in order to receive aid, get contracts or apply for state jobs, it is more urgent than ever for American Jews to stand up and affirm that being anti-Zionist is not anti-Semitic --- which is what 24 Americans do in the video that is the subject of our January-March Link. Issue 2: What in God’s Name is going on?, Edward Dillon Recently U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speculated that President Trump may have been sent by God to save Israel." To which our May-June Link author Ed Dillon asks "What in God's name is going on?". Issue 3: Uninhabitable, Jonathan Cook The only way Israelis can be made to sit up and take note of the disaster unfolding next door in Gaza, it seems, is when they fear the fallout may spill out of the tiny coastal enclave and engulf them too. Environmental experts from two Israeli universities issued a report in June warning that the imminent collapse of Gaza’s water, sewage and electricity infrastructure would soon rebound on Israel. Issue 4: Once Upon a Time in Gaza, Rawan Yaghi In this issue we turn to a short story writer to convey the terrible truth of what has been called the world’s largest maximum security prison. Rawan Yaghi is a young Gazan who graduated from the University of Oxford. How she managed the checkpoints to get in and out of Gaza was the subject of her January-March 2018 Link. Here she lets her characters tell what hell is really like. Issue 5: Fact and Fiction in Palestine, Gil Maguire Have you read a good novel lately? How about "The Exodus Betrayal" by Gilbert Maguire. And who is this little known novelist? And what is his novel about? All this is explained in our December Link, including how to obtain the novel. 2018, Volume 51 Issue 1: The Checkpoints, Rawan Yaghi The world's focus is now on Jerusalem. But, as Rowan Yaghi narrates in our January-March Link, it should be on the West Bank and Gaza. Issue 2: Apartheid Israel, Jonathan Cook The Link is doing a series of issues on how the concept of apartheid in international law applies to the different situations in which Palestinians find themselves: citizens of Israel, occupied West Bankers, imprisoned Gazans, and residents of Jerusalem. This issue examines the status of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Our writer is Jonathan Cook, a freelance journalist who lives with his family in Nazareth, Israel. Issue 3: Apartheid West Bank, Jonathan Kuttab In 2006, former president Jimmy Carter wrote a book which he entitled "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. In our June-July issue of The Link, Palestinian lawyer Jonathan Kuttab tells why, 12 years later, the president's worst premonition has come to pass. Issue 4: The Judaization of Jerusalem / Al-Quds, Basem L. Ra'ad So, why the title “The Judaization of Jerusalem / Al-Quds”? For one thing, says Basem Ra'ad, author of our Sept.-Oct. 2018 Link issue, the taking of land from one people and giving it to another based on an exclusive blood line is, simply put, racist and the worst form of apartheid. Issue 5: Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Detention, Brad Parker The cover photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90, taken in the West Bank city of Hebron on Dec. 7, 2017, shows 16-year –old Fawzi al-Juneidi, bloodied, bound and blindfolded, being taken away by over 20 Israeli soldiers. 2017, Volume 50 Issue 1: In the Beginning, John F. Mahoney The Link is literally 50 years in the making. We dedicate it to all our readers, past and present. Issue 2: Al-Tamimi et al v. Adelson et al, Fred Jerome The Link has used various venues to tell the story of the Palestinian catastrophe. In “Captive Audiences” by Thomas Suarez it was a musical recital; in “The Grief Counselor of Gaza” by Dr. Eyad Sarraj it was psychiatric care; in “Mirror, Mirror” by Maysoon Zayid it was standup comedy. In this issue, it is a Washington, D.C. courtroom. Issue 3: Marwan Barghouti and the Battle of the Empty Stomachs, Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook is a British journalist who lives with his family in Nazareth. This is his sixth feature article for The Link. Issue 4: The Cult of the Zionists - An Historical Enigma, Thomas Suárez Our feature writer, Tom Suarez, spent long hours in The National Archives in England "connecting the dots," as he puts it, between Zionism and fascism, including Nazism, and between what British intelligence knew about the true intent of Zionism and when it knew it. Much of his research has never seen the light of day. Issue 5: Anti-Zionism Is NOT Anti-Semitism, And NEVER Was, Allan C. Brownfeld Recently, French President Emmanuel Macron called anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism. Not true, says Allan Brownfeld, editor of ISSUES, the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism. Indeed, as he shows in our Dec. issue of The Link, there is a long and well articulated history of Jewish anti-Zionism. 2016, Volume 49 Issue 1: The Second Gaza, Atef Abu Saif There are two Gazas. One is the Gaza you get when you Google Gaza. The other is the Gaza you will discover in our January-March issue of The Link. Issue 2: Protestantism’s Liberal/Mainline Embrace of Zionism, Donald Wagner What makes a president of the United States shun the advice of his State Department and embrace the colonization of another people’s land? More astoundingly, yet, what makes leading intellectuals of their day do the same? The answer, in part, is mainstream Protestantism.