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Friday, July 30, 2021

Message to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Criticizing the State of Israel's Occupation of Palestine

The following is a short message that I wrote to the Joe Biden / Kamala Harris White House on May 16^th, 2021, as part of an effort to dissuade the administration from continuing to staunchly support Zionism and the illegal occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

I request that the President and Vice President direct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, and the New York Police Department, to cease cooperation with, training of, and supply of armaments to, the apartheid regime of the State of Israel.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 requires that appropriations for the army must be limited to two years at a time, so why do Israel and its military benefit from a ten-year aid package? This must be unconstitutional. $3.8 billion in taxpayer funds goes to Israel each year, and it needs to stop; private trade to Israel exceeds this amount and could easily replace those funds.

I request that the Biden Administration direct the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, to review and respect the pertinent United Nations resolutions regarding the need to respect human rights, including the prohibitions against siege warfare, and against targeting journalists and public infrastructure.

U.S.-made weapons are falling on the heads of Palestinian children, and it needs to stop.

Please read this article I wrote about how the rights of Jews and Arabs can be respected in the Holy Land, with either a two-state solution, or a stateless solution based on communal autonomy and individual rights.

http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/08/why-i-support-autonomy-for-palestinians.html

Original message written and delivered on May 16^th, 2021

Introduction written on July 30^th, 2021

Published on July 30^th, 2021

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Foreign Occupation and Declaration of War

The following was written in April 2014, as part of a response to the Campaign for Liberty's 2012 survey questionnaire for candidates running for federal office.

10. Will you oppose using U.S. forces to occupy a foreign nation without a declaration of war?

Yes, I will oppose using U.S. forces to occupy a foreign nation without a declaration of war. Although the War Powers Act authorizes the president to deploy limited numbers of troops for limited times, the president cannot authorize attacks or strikes without the approval of the American people through Congress, unless there is imminent danger to the United States.

The U.S. military should primarily be focused on defending the American people rather than acting in a militant manner and spending as much on so-called defense as the next 15 to 20 nations combined. Our military and intelligence forces should not intervene in the domestic affairs (including elections) of national governments unless refraining from doing so enables such a government's official apparati to inflict imminent harm upon America, and upon law-abiding American people and agencies abroad.

Although I will to promote diplomacy, trade, and peace with all nations, I do not believe that this should involve formal military alliances, as I believe that we should heed George Washington's advice avoiding entangling alliances with foreign nations. I will support efforts to end formal military alliances with all nations, and to end U.S. membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

I believe that our membership in N.A.T.O. - and our close relationships with the State of Israel and Saudi Arabia – only increase the chance of the United States fighting in more wars without congressional approval, and of the U.S. being expected by the international community to fight other nations' battles for them. This only diminishes the independence and military strength of such nations, while allowing them to fund their governments while the U.S. bears much of the costs of their protection.

I will vote to cut foreign aid completely, but until that time, any foreign aid budget the federal government maintains should not reflect the kind of favoritism towards particular governments and peoples which has been suggested by the recent trends of vastly disproportionate disbursements to Israel and Egypt (which combined contain just over one percent of the world's population).

Additionally, the U.S. military should not use drone planes to spy in other countries (either to collect information or to attack enemies of the United States) without the approval of Congress and without the authorization of the nation within whose borders and air space the use of such drones occurs.

For more entries on military, national defense, and foreign policy, please visit:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2010/10/american-sovereignty-restoration-act-of.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/01/iran-and-israel.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/03/911-heres-what-i-think-happened.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/03/middle-east-foreign-policy.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/04/local-inhabitants-per-deployed-us.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/03/defense-policy.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/07/seeds-of-world-war-iii-being-sown-in.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2013/09/response-to-andrew-klavans-video.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/sovereignty-and-secrecy-freedoms-of.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-second-amendment.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/on-zionism-and-state-of-israel.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/national-defense-authorization-act-for.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/geopolitics-images.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-syria-debate-in-congress.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/on-china-global-warming-and-population.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/military-industrial-socialism-and.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/in-response-to-question-about-patriot.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/criticism-of-glenn-becks-libya-coverage.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/summary-of-webster-tarpleys-libya.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/barack-obama-universal-sycophant.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/notes-on-duplicity-in-us-foreign-policy.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/notes-on-conflict-in-syria.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/on-two-state-solution-in-israel-and.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/military-intervention.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/us-military-service-under-united.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/us-withdrawal-from-united-nations.html

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Notes on Duplicity in U.S. Foreign Policy

Written on December 21st, 2011

The U.S. supported the Mujahideen (part of which later became the Taliban) in its struggle against the Soviets, and later invaded Afghanistan to fight and oust the Taliban.

The C.I.A. supported the Haqqani Network in Western Pakistan, and is now urging Pakistan to fight the network.

The U.S. remained friends with Israel while it encouraged Hamas as a way to avoid negotiation over Palestine, and also while Israel mediated our weapons sales to Iran, and Israel now appears to be gearing up for strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Bill Clinton flew Hezbollah operatives to Bosnia to support the U.S. and its allies, and now considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

The C.I.A. supported Saddam Hussein against the Iranians, and armed Iran against Iraq during a war that lasted throughout nearly the entire 1980s decade.