[news] U.S. Labour and the Middle East War

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Horrified by the images from Palestine and Lebanon, international labor has strongly denounced Israel's attacks...In the United States, however, nearly all labor bodies either support Israel or say nothing at all...State employee retirement plans and union pension funds invest hundreds of millions of dollars in State of Israel Bonds. In April 2002, while Israel butchered hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Jenin, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney spoke at a "National Solidarity Rally for Israel."

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