By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – I recently had an interesting lunch with a foreign academic who is in the US on a one year sabbatical to study how the political process in Washington shapes foreign policy. She asked me why the United States has a foreign policy that does not appear to serve actual US […]
By Mohammed Omer. WRMEA – I drag our suitcases, mine and my pregnant wife Lina’s, through the often impenetrable Rafah Crossing, at the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. It’s a ritual carried out by thousands whenever it is announced that the border will be open. Even so, would-be travelers wonder whether they will […]
By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative – Washington’s unwillingness to use diplomacy to resolve international conflicts has proven remarkably consistent over the past 13 years. Even chalking it up to ineptitude would let the Bush and Obama administrations off the hook for what are apparently more systemic failures. I am referring to an inability to […]
It’s time for the secretary of state to insist on America’s position on Middle East peace. By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Frank Carlucci, Lee Hamilton, Carla A. Hills, Thomas Pickering and Henry Siegman. Politico Magazine – Israelis are right to demand that Palestinians recognize the fact of the state of Israel and its legitimacy, which Palestinians in fact […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – The key component of the Israel Lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is the most powerful foreign policy lobby in Washington. It exists only to maintain and increase United States support for Israel, no matter what Israel does and no matter what the actual American interests might be. […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – There has been a flurry of articles about the possibility that Jonathan Pollard, convicted Israeli spy who is now languishing in a North Carolina prison, might be released by President Barack Obama as a gesture to revive the moribund Middle East peace talks. Media accounts from Israel suggest that Secretary of State […]
By Philip Giraldi. AntiWar.com – I am going to explain why Gareth Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is possibly the most important expose of political corruption and government malfeasance to appear in the past ten years. Investigative reporter Porter’s meticulously documented account tells the tale of how the government […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is a New York Times editorial which comes remarkably close to assigning blame for the inevitable failure of the Kerry round of the perpetual “peace process” to Israel. John Kerry, in an unguarded moment of honesty, did the same thing during his recent “poof” testimony to Congress … before the State Department launched […]
Haaretz – Some 60 young, mainly Israeli, travelers have been arrested at a Peruvian archaeological site for what local media are describing as a late-night drunken, drug-addled sex orgy, Channel 2’s Mako website reported Tuesday. A Peruvian TV station billed the event as “a night of Israeli debauchery.” Stolen Inca artifacts, as well as marijuana and […]
By Jonathan Cook. The National – For the first time since the US launched the Middle East peace talks last summer, the Palestinian leadership may be sensing it has a tiny bit of leverage. Barack Obama met the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Washington last week in what Palestinian officials called a “candid and difficult” […]
