January 2005


By Avigail Abarbanel

[ Avigail Abrabanel is a family therapist and a former Staff Sergeant with the IDF.]

January 21, 2005

Two months ago I returned from a two-week family visit to Israel. Although I am an activist for Palestinian rights, I decided that this visit would be entirely private. Living for two weeks with my brother, his wife and their two little girls in their tiny apartment in a North Tel-Aviv suburb, gave me an opportunity to observe and see what daily life is like for Israelis at the moment. (more…)

Holocaust

Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi
Touchstone. Reprint Edition. 1995 (more…)

Judge Norman A. Mordue
US District Judge
United States Court-Northern District of NY
100 South Clinton Street
12th Floor
Syracuse, New York, 13261
January 26, 2005

Dear Judge Mordue,

I am writing in regards to the case of Dr. Rafil Dhafir because I believe that he has been wrongfully incarcerated and denied bail continually. (more…)

This letter was sent to the Post-Standard on January, 20th in response to Richard Lindsay’s letter:

The Jan. 20 letter of Richard Lindsay is a perfect illustration of the difficulty I have with the Post-Standard’s coverage. His letter is a perfect imitation of most of the Post-Standard articles I have read on the trial. (more…)

Welcome to DhafirTrial! We will soon post some background information about Dr. Dhafir, the trial, and Katherine (the site’s primary author). In the meantime, enjoy the archived articles.

All the posts before this one have been back-dated to put them in a logical sequence; going forward, posts will be dated as they are entered.

From The Syracuse Peace Newsletter, Feb. 2005.

THE GOVERNMENT v. DR. RAFIL DHAFIR

Katherine Hughes

I have been attending the trial of Dr. Rafil Dhafir here in Syracuse since it began in October. I knew very little about the case beforehand. I did know that there was some controversy surrounding the case (more…)

By Semour M. Hersh

What the Pentagon can now do in secret

Posted 2005-01-17

George W. Bush’s reelection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control-against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism-during his second term. The CIA will continue t be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under way.

For complete article go to:The New Yorker

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions

Amy Goodman from Democracy Now interviewing John Perkins

We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies. (more…)

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