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BREAKING ALL THE RULES: Palestine, Iraq, Iran and the Case for Impeachment | 
| Author: Francis A. Boyle
Publisher: Clarity Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 122
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0932863590
Dewey Decimal Number: 342.062
EAN: 9780932863591
ASIN: 0932863590
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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This book compiles the proceedings of the 18th Annual BERTRAND RUSSELL PEACE LECTURES delivered by international legal expert Francis A. Boyle at the Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University, in January, 2007.
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Fine account of Palestine and US foreign policy July 17, 2008
William Podmore (London United Kingdom)
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Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, Champaign, gave the 18th Annual Bertrand Russell Peace Lectures in January 2007 at the Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. This fascinating book prints these talks - `Palestine, Palestinians and International Law' and `The National Campaign to Impeach President George W. Bush' - with an update to 17th October 2007 and reports of various campaigns to boycott Israel.
Boyle quotes Lord Russell's last message, of 31st January 1970, "For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to `reason' and has suggested `negotiations'. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression."
Boyle shows how the US state assists Israel's efforts to maintain its illegal occupation. He notes that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said in 1991 that his strategy was to stall negotiations for the next ten years, to arrange countless meetings to prevent a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. The Israeli state still follows this strategy, witness its participation in Sarkozy's fraudulent `Mediterranean Union'.
Bit the strategy of forcible intervention continues too. For example, in June 2007 the US and Israeli states organised General Dahlan's attempted coup against the democratically-elected government in Gaza.
Boyle also shows how the illegal US invasion and occupation of Iraq and its threats against Iran are jeopardising world peace. He demonstrates how the US state is promoting civil war in Iraq, so that Iraqis kill each other not Americans. Bush senior encouraged the Shia in the south and the Kurds in the north to rise against Saddam, to split the state into three parts and the US-written Constitution continues this effort.
Boyle urges the American people to impeach Bush and also to stop the Democrat-controlled Congress from voting more hundreds of billions of dollars enabling the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recent polls showed that both these are popular demands: most Americans want to end the war and impeach Bush.
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