By William Triplett. The VVA Veteran – Arlington National Cemetery is far from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, but on a beautiful Saturday morning last spring one small patch of the nation’s most hallowed burial ground seemed very close to that long-troubled body of water. On a gentle hillside in Section 34 with sunshine pouring […]
By Samia Khoury. Unable to admit the failure of US diplomacy, Mr. Obama suggests a pause in the peace negotiations because “Israeli and Palestinian leaders are unwilling to make hard choices.” Really Mr. Obama!! You cannot be joking after all the compromises that the Palestinians have made since Oslo, when you were still maybe in college or working your […]
By Ali Abunimah. Electronic Intifada – Anti-Palestinian advocates are up in arms over US Secretary of State John Kerry’s warning that Israel could become an “apartheid state” in the absence of a “two-state solution.” The Anti-Defamation League declared itself “startled and disappointed” that Kerry would use the “offensive term ‘apartheid’ to warn what might become of Israel should an […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – It is being reported that the attempt by Director of Central Intelligence John Brennan to steer the CIA away from paramilitary action and back towards conventional spying and analysis is not going well. Media coverage of the problem is depicting it as being partly driven by bureaucratic obstacles associated with budgeting and […]
Sheldon Adelson is known for using his billions to promote Israeli interests. The excerpt below is from “Gingrich: Only Campaign Finance Reform Will Limit Billionaire Influence” by Billy House. Gingrich was asked about the gathering of some top Republicans in Las Vegas for what officially is the spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Some have even […]
By Billy House. National Journal – Newt Gingrich says all the attention to be paid in Las Vegas by GOP officials and wannabe presidents this weekend to billionaire campaign donor Sheldon Adelson—a patron of Gingrich’s 2012 White House bid—is something that won’t go away until genuine campaign finance reform occurs. “Whether it’s the Koch brothers or […]
By Nancy Murray. Mondoweiss – If the Israeli government has indeed ordered its spies “to dig up intelligence” showing links between the supporters of BDS and “terrorists and enemy states” as reported in the February 11, 2014 London Times, it may find that it already has as much information as it needs in its data banks. As described […]
Seymour Hersh documents Ankara’s efforts to pull the U.S. into the Levant. By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative – If you had been a reader of The American Conservative magazine back in December 2011, you might have learned from an article written by me that “Unmarked NATO warplanes are arriving at Turkish military bases close to Iskenderum […]
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 […]
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 […]
