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Seth Binder

Wall Street Journal,

November 6, 2023

“The Biden administration has been urging the Israeli government to allow for humanitarian pauses, but this sale and other similar military assistance being rushed to Israel completely undermines that effort. . . . The administration may be asking for pauses but its actions say it is supporting the bombing campaign.”

Seth Binder

The Intercept,

October 24, 2023

“The U.S. supporting proxy forces in Lebanon is part of a decades-long, overly militarized policy towards the Middle East that has ignored the root causes of the region’s turmoil and struggles and not brought the peace or stability Americans have been promised.”

Abdullah Alaoudh

Deutsche Welle,

October 1, 2023

“We know we live in the real world and that governments must deal with Saudi Arabia, said Abdullah Alaoudh, Saudi director at the US-based Freedom Initiative. ‘But ignoring human rights, ignoring basic democratic values, when dealing with dictatorships and autocratic regimes doesn’t serve a country’s own strategic interests or bring about human rights,’ he argued.”

Abdullah Alaoudh

AFP,

September 29, 2023

“Awda’s son, Abdullah Alaoudh, said he did not find Prince Mohammed’s expression of shame over the Ghamdi case to be credible. The crown prince’s statements ‘are not serious and are part of evasion, an attempt to address the American people’ and improve his image, said Alaoudh, Saudi director of the Washington-based Freedom Initiative.”

Seth Binder

TIME,

September 27, 2023

“This money is tainted. . . . This is an Egyptian government that is meddling in U.S. politics and foreign policy in an illegal way. . . . [For military aid to Egypt in Fiscal Year 2024, Congress] could consider topline reductions, removing the national security waiver on the portion that’s conditioned on human rights or increasing the portion that’s conditioned on human rights.”

Seth Binder

Al-Monitor,

September 27, 2023

“It’s clear that [the Government of Egypt’s] involvement and effort in trying to push to get military aid cleared and released is an indication that this is absolutely something they care strongly about, and they’re willing to do whatever they can to get the assistance that they think belongs to them.”

Seth Binder

New Jersey Monitor,

September 26, 2023

“You have a powerful senator in a privileged position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, potentially weighing in on one of the primary tools for advancing U.S. interests in Egypt, which is military aid.”

Seth Binder

The Guardian,

September 25, 2023

“We often hear that using military aid as leverage won’t work, as the Egyptian government doesn’t really care about the assistance. This indictment should put that argument to bed, it has clearly been proven false.”

The Freedom Initiative

The Guardian,

September 25, 2023

“According to the three-count indictment, while enriching himself, Menendez used his position to prioritize the wants of Egypt’s corrupt and brutal government and security services,” said the Washington-based group the Freedom Initiative, which focuses on political prisoners held across the Middle East. “The indictment alleges significant efforts by the Egyptian government to improperly influence US policy and law. President Biden and his administration should demand an accounting from the Egyptian government and announce a review of the bilateral relationship.”

Seth Binder

Washington Post,

September 22, 2023

He called on Congress to block pending U.S. aid “in order to make crystal clear that al-Sisi’s human rights record and infiltrating the U.S. political system will not be tolerated.”

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