Democracy Now! July 11, 2012

July 11, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is in the hot seat over his vast personal fortune, estimated at up to $250 million. Five more corporations have severed ties with secretive right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over its controversial policies on gun use, voter suppression, union busting, and more. And Democracy Now! hosts a debate on the legality of Israel's self-proclaimed right to build settlements throughout the occupied West Bank. Plus headlines, and more.

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Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are the Jewish civilian communities built on lands occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in the Golan Heights. The settlements in the West Bank and ... Explore this topic

Israeli-occupied territories

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories which have been designated as occupied territory by the United Nations and other international organizations, governments and others to refer to the territory seized by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967 from Egypt, Jorda... Explore this topic

Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a parliamentary democracy in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwes... Explore this topic

West Bank

The West Bank is a landlocked territory, located in Western Asia. The West Bank shares boundaries to the west, north, and south with the state of Israel, and to the east, across the Jordan River, with the Kingdom of Jordan. The West Bank also contains a significant coastline a... Explore this topic

Uzi Landau

Uzi Landau is an Israelii politician, member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and Minister of Tourism. Previously a Likud MK, he served as Minister of Internal Security between 2001 and 2003. Explore this topic

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the early 20th century. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between the Zionist yishuv and the ... Explore this topic

International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice is the primary judicial branch of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Its main functions are to settle legal disputes submitted to it by states and to provide advisory opinions on legal questions sub... Explore this topic

Jonathan S. Tobin

Jonathan S. Tobin is the senior online editor of Commentary magazine, a neo-Conservative monthly magazine covering politics, international affairs, Judaism and social, cultural and literary issues. Tobin was executive editor of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia from 1998 thr... Explore this topic

Ali Abunimah

Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian American journalist who has been described as “the leading American proponent of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” A resident of Chicago who contributes regularly to such publications as the Chicago Tribune and Los A... Explore this topic

Fatah

Fataḥ is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a multi-party confederation. Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of milit... Explore this topic

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