urged by anti-occupation activists around the world that includes BSDboycott, sanctions and divestment.
74. The Bil'in protestors won a significant victory in September 2007 when the Israeli Supreme Court required that the Wall be moved closer to the Green Line at Bi'lin. However, the Court also retroactively approved another settlement on Bi'lin land.
75. This is a commonly used Israeli euphemism for assassination.
76. Following his April 21, 2004 release from Ashkelon prison in Israel having completed an 18-year sentence, Vanunu is still under extreme restrictions regarding his movements and actions. In April 2008, all restrictions, including being forbidden to leave Israel, talk to the foreign press, discuss nuclear issues at all, or enter the West Bank, were renewed for another year. Additionally, Vanunu has been charged with violating the restrictions imposed on him. His sentencing has been postponed until May 2008.
77. Black September was the month in 1970 when, after a period of escalating tensions, King Hussein of Jordan set the army on the large Palestinian presence. Thousands were killed, and the incident remains a source of tension.
78. Actually, Congressman James Moran (Democrat, Virginia) drew criticism for connecting the Israel lobby with the Iraq war in 2003 at an anti-war forum and again in September 2007 in the Jewish magazine Tikkun. His 2003 remark did not specifically cite the lobby, but instead the Jewish community, although contextual remarks made it clear he was referring to Jewish neo-cons and the lobby. Interestingly and atypically, despite lobby efforts to unseat Moran in the elections that followed in 2004 he was returned to his seat in the House of Representatives. His 2007 remarks in Tikkun show that he is more careful in his language, and seems to have learned that the US Jewish community and the lobby are not one and the same, but he is still speaking out.
79. John Bolton. One of the neo-cons, he was Undersecretary of State for arms control dealing with weapons of mass destruction leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was appointed interim ambassador to the UN in 2005.
80. Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hizbullah. Amir Peretz, Israeli Secretary of Defense during the 2006 invasion of Lebanon. In the early days of the war Peretz said in a speech that Nasrallah would not forget his name.
81. Der ]udenstaat, 1896.
82. The Huntington reference is from the 1996 book Clash of Civilizations. The End of History and the Last Man is by Francis Fukuyama, Harper Perennial, 1993.
83. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran from 2005 to the present (May 2008), known for his vitriolic statements about Israel and the United States.
84. DanHalutz, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) 2005-07.
85. Abu Jihad was the nom de guerre of Khalil al-Wazir. Arafat's second in command, he was assassinated by Israel in Tunis in 1988.
86. For a good discussion of the 1967 war see Donald Neff, Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days that Changed the Middle East in 1967, Simon and Schuster, 1985.
87. Tzipi Livni, Right-wing foreign minister of Israel. She has held several other ministries.
88. In mid-October, 2007, Bush threatened World War III if Iran develops nuclear weapons, which the White House says Iran is doing.