Was the intelligence obtained through a spy in the room feeding the information to the Israelis? ?A spy is, regrettably, more likely and one has to wonder if the leaker was/is part of the American delegation…” The recent revelation that the Israelis had obtained classified information relating to the P5+1 negotiations with Iran over the […]
At a time when President Obama is under political pressure from congressional Republicans over negotiations to rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, a startling paradox has emerged: *Mr. Obama is becoming increasingly dependent on Iranian fighters as he tries to contain the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria without committing American ground troops. By […]
The day of the speech, Capitol Hill was all but taken over by pro-Israel activists. Members of Netanyahu’s delegation mixed with Jewish leaders and with donors to pro-Israel groups who were invited to hear his talk as honored guests. Busloads of American Israel Public Affairs Committee members, fresh off their annual policy conference, also spilled […]
Forward, Nathan Guttman: It’s an unwritten arrangement Diaspora Jewish leaders and Israel have kept for decades — though few Jews know about it: The government of Israel uses one of world Jewry’s main Zionist funding instruments to hide money that it channels secretly to exclusively Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The funding body […]
NY Times – In the address on Tuesday to the United States Congress by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, we witnessed a new peak in the long-running hype over Iran’s nuclear energy program. Yet all his predictions about how close Iran was to acquiring a nuclear bomb have proved baseless. Despite that, alarmist rhetoric […]
Indo-Asian News Service, Saeed Naqv – West Asia becomes more mysterious by the minute. Who is fighting whom on whose behalf? The lines were always blurred. Now they are more so. Iraq’s army has just shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons to the ISIS in Al Anbar province. How do we […]
1. Iran does not have a nuclear bomb and is signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 2. Iran has not launched an aggressive war since 1775 3. Modern Iran has not occupied the territory of its neighbors. 4. All the people ruled over by Iran can vote in national elections and even Iranian Jews have […]
By Gilbert Schramm. An open letter to Senators and Congressional Representatives nationwide: On March 3rd, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu will speak before a joint session of Congress. I’m sure that, you, like every other responsible elected representative in the country, knows what a divisive issue this has become. I wonder if you really understand though, […]
If Americans Knew, 1/22/15 – Yesterday in Tel Aviv, a 23-year-old Palestinian man stabbed and injured as many as 12 Israelis who were riding a public bus during morning rush hour. No deaths were reported, although three people were hospitalized with serious injuries. U.S. mainstream media coverage of this attack painted a picture of Israeli […]
National Lawyer’s Guild, 1/19/15 – The Palestine Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild submitted a paper, written by James Marc Leas, to the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict. The submission sharply rejects Israeli claims of “self-defense” related to the 2014 attack on Gaza, noting that “both facts and law […]
