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USS Liberty Attack

On June 8, 1967, 34 American servicemen were killed and 174 were wounded during an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty..

Israel-Palestine Conflict

For centuries there was no such conflict. In the 19th century the land of Palestine was inhabited by a multicultural population – approximately 86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian, and 4 percent Jewish – living in peace..

News from the Middle East

For the latest news from the region, visit our News from The Middle East section. For a complete chronological list of deaths among both Israelis and Palestinians since 2000 go here. Since, as studies show, U.S. news coverage of Israel-Palestine is consistently Israel-centric, we will try to provide “the Missing Headlines” – news that is often missing from mainstream media. […]

False Flag

A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. By Mark Perry. Foreign Policy, 1/13/12 –  Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years […]

Documents reveal Zionist group spied on US student delegation to Palestine

By Asa Winstanley and Nora Barrows-Friedman. Electronic Intifada, 1/29/14 – A right-wing Zionist group in California infiltrated a student trip to Palestine in 2012, a raft of secret documents obtained by The Electronic Intifada shows. The documents confirm long-held activist suspicions that anti-Palestinian political groups are spying on student activists. The files give a rare insight into […]

Henry Waxman to retire from Congress after 40 years

Henry Waxman

Congressman Waxman made special mention of his work to advance US-Israel Relations & took “pride” in his grandchildren serving in the Israeli military… Jewish Journal, 1/30/14 – Rep. Henry Waxman (D – Beverly Hills), who was first elected to Congress in 1974, announced on Thursday morning that he would not seek reelection this fall and […]

Can Putin Keep Sochi Safe?

By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative, 1/28/14 – The last time the Olympic Games were confronted with a serious, capable, and active terrorist movement was at the 1992 Barcelona Games, when the Euskadi ta Akatasuna (ETA) threatened to stage attacks to highlight its demands for an independent Basque homeland. Currently, the Russian Olympic sponsors of […]

Putting a Christian Zionist in Charge

John Whitbeck’s commentary: In the article transmitted below, Philip Giraldi considers the national embarrassment to Canada posed by its prime minister Stephen Harper and warns against the risk and threat of putting in charge of a country’s foreign policy an individual in the grip of “nuttier-than-fruitcake” superstition. This threat is, obviously, not unique to Canada. […]

Setting the record straight: Arafat was not corrupt

By Alan Hart. Arafat was not personally corrupt and did NOT steal any money let alone “billions”. What he did do, as his most senior leadership colleagues told me, and he himself subsequently confirmed to me, was tolerate corruption in some around him. Why did he do that? Because the PLO was penetrated not only […]

Afghanistan Exit Is Seen as Peril to C.I.A. Drone Mission

John Whitbeck’s commentary: On January 24, I wrote at the end of my introduction to an article on Iraq that the Obama administration’s impulse to maintain an American military presence in Afghanistan for another ten years “can be explained only by a self-interested concern of American political and military ‘leaders’ to kick the can down […]

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