"We have not galvanized Congress, but we will have to," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.

02-15-06 - Group backs funding cut for P.A. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee favors the measure, but is focusing on another binding bill that is much more far-reaching, with bans on assistance to a government with any Hamas affiliation at all

02-13-06 - Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East to Hold Press Conference in Washington Feb. 17 to warn churches not to embrace the anti-Israel message promoted by the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM). The PSM is hosting a Divestment Conference at Georgetown University this weekend. (Yet) another pro-Israeli spin campaign is launched. The PSM really scare these folks. Good!

02-11-06 - Republican Chief Outlines 2006 Strategy According to Bolton, our job is to fight anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in the world via the UN.

02-10-06 - Evangelicals rally for Israel About 400 evangelical leaders gathered in San Antonio Tuesday for a conference entitled Christians United for Israel, with the aim of using resources in the movement to lobby for pro-Israel legislation.

02-09-06 - Juggernaut Gathering Momentum: Next Stop, Iran Aside from all that, the Israelis were, and are, confident that their influence in Washington is such as to ensure U.S. support, no matter what. And, as President Bush's rhetoric demonstrates, they are correct in thinking they can, in effect, have their cake and eat it too ? a commitment equivalent to a defense treaty, with no binding undertakings on Israel's part.

02-09-06 - US shield blunts Israeli military option on Iran "The decision if and when to act against Iran will be made in the White House, not in the underground headquarters of the (Israeli military command) General Staff."....A senior Israeli official, who asked not to be named, acknowledged that Bush's pledge took bilateral ties to "a new level," but said Israel had not promised anything in return.

02-09-06 - U.S. Jews block conference in which anti-Israel professors participating Pressure exerted by Jewish organizations in the United States has succeeded in preventing an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) conference, in which a number of supporters of an academic boycott on Israel were scheduled to take part.

02-09-06 - American Jewish Congress Welcomes AAUP Decision to Postpone Anti-Israel Boycott Conference

02-09-06 - CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL Laffey urged Chafee to come out in favor of ending all foreign aid to the Palestinians and criticized the senator's vote against the Syria Accountability Act, a measure that paved the way for American sanctions against Damascus. Laffey also expressed his support for a bill sponsored by Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, which would cut off the $225 million in humanitarian funding sent to the Palestinians through the United States Agency for International Development

02-09-06 - Congress Differs With Israel, Bush Over Aid to Palestinians The bill, which makes no distinction between the P.A. president and the P.A. Cabinet, enjoys broad support in the House and has been endorsed by Washington's pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The bill goes much further than the demands made by the Bush administration and even by Israel ? including a requirement that the P.A. "publicly acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state." AIPAC has Congress in their back pocket.

02-08-06 - FBI Investigation of AIPAC Is Second Attempt to Curb Israel Lobby's Power In 1989 seven individual Americans sued the Federal Election Commission for failing to require AIPAC to publish details of its income and expenditures.

02-07-06 - Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations Shortcomings in aid from the U.S. government are making New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin look to other nations for help in rebuilding his hurricane-damaged city. Might I remind you that Israel has sought and will get from the United States additional aid this year to pay the settlers who evacuated Gaza ($250K per family), to develop the Negev and to help Israel absorb Ethopian Jews. I wonder how the people of New Orleans feel about that. Will they be receiving $250k per family as a result of this natural disaster HERE IN AMERICA? I doubt it.

02-07-06 - Displaced Gush Katif settlers Like many of the other 9,000 or so former residents of Gush Katif, Sternberg hasn?t yet benefited from compensation packages promised to the settlers by the Israeli government. That's because Israel is waiting on the American government to fork it over. Anyone doubt they'll get it, even given the fact that our own Katrina victims are looking overseas for their own assistance?

02-06-06 - US Jewish group seeks cash to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel "This visit will help them to raise 100 million dollars on their return to the United States to assist the emigration of Falashmoras to Israel,"

02-06-06 - New leader in Congress supports Israel, vouchers In his first week in the leadership, Boehner has already ingratiated himself with some Jewish officials for taking a strong stance against restrictions on congressional travel, as part of lobbying reform packages being proposed in Congress. Jewish groups are concerned because several proposals, including one offered by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), would restrict or eliminate travel by non-profit and educational groups. Groups such as AIPAC rely on these trips to educate lawmakers on the Middle East and garner support for foreign aid and pro-Israel resolutions.

02-06-06 - Legislative Mission to Israel Free trip for American assemblyman courtesy of pro-Israeli group for the purpose of influencing them: should be banned by law.

02-06-06 - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen How fitting for Ros-Lehtinen to be interviewed by an Israeli website. She introduces more legislation in Congress on behalf of Israel than for America, seems. She would appear to have a passionate attachment to a nation other than this one.

02-03-06 - Evangelicals to launch 'Christian AIPAC'

02-03-06 - Boehner elected leader An Ohio congressman close to that state?s Jewish community was elected Republican majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives....Boehner, however, also has a solid pro-Israel voting record and Ohio Jewish leaders said he reached out to them although his mostly rural southern constituency has almost no Jews.

02-02-06 - Lawmakers push bill to cut aid to Palestinians Beside cutting off direct aid, the bill would restrict non-humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians through non-governmental organizations, cut diplomatic contacts with the Palestinian Authority and treat it as a terrorist entity, close its offices in the United States other than its United Nations representative, and limit travel of its representatives. Coincidentally, Ros-Lehtinen and Lantos are Israel-firsters. Due to the overwhelming influence AIPAC has over our legislators, aren't they all?

02-02-06 - Israeli Counter Terror Expertise Attracts U.S. Law Enforcement to Tel Aviv They will also get some hands-on practice with Israeli techniques in hand-to-hand combat and instinctive shooting The Israelization of the United States continues. Here's something not being taught to our law enforcement officials: "U.S. policy on Israel key motive for effort"

02-01-06 - Former CIA Director Woolsey Named Chairman of SuperCom's New Advisory Board Headquartered in Israel, SuperCom

01-31-06 - Congress presses Hamas Four U.S. congressional initiatives would ban assistance to a Palestinian Authority governed by Hamas.

01-29-06 - U.S. Jews start thinking seriously about the AIPAC case Regardless, some U.S. Jewish leaders convened this week and decided that the time has come for action. For some time now they have felt uncomfortable with the way the case is being conducted. Many thought that the prosecution was not justified and that its motivations are extraneous - the power wars of Washington and perhaps also a bit of anti-Semitism, or at least a desire to humiliate the pro-Israel lobby and damage its power.....Therefore, said the head of one of the major Jewish organizations, it is not AIPAC that should be attacked. A large majority of the Jewish community is interested in defending it, even if it is sometimes not pleased with its policy. "It is necessary to attack the prosecution and the case," It couldn't be that somebody broke the law? It has to be anti-Semitism!!

01-29-06 - U.S. Jewish leaders consider financially assisting fired AIPAC officials

01-29-06 - 9/11: Pretext for Oil, or Jesus? "There are 70 million of us," he says. "And if there's one thing that brings us together quickly it's whenever we begin to detect our government becoming a little anti-Israel."

01-27-06 - U.S. Could Halt Aid to Palestinians The threat was echoed on Capitol Hill by a nonbinding Senate resolution condemning Hamas and expressing support for halting assistance to the Palestinian government. The symbolic resolution, crafted by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., says aid should be ended if the party controlling the Palestinian parliament advocates the destruction of Israel, which Hamas does. It was unclear when the Senate would vote on the proposal.

01-27-06 - AIPAC: Hamas win a 'major setback' The pro-Israel lobby said Thursday that the United States must not recognize Hamas as a legitimate political party until it renounces violence, dismantles terrorist infrastructure, recognizes Israel?s right to exist

01-27-06 - China welcomes smooth completion of Palestinian parliamentary elections, FM spokesman

01-25-06 - Many in Congress Hawkish on Iran AIPAC has our Congress in their back pocket.

01-23-06 - Challenging a sacred American institution The Washington museum is a sacred institution in America, certainly in Jewish America, but it is not without controversy. Now its opponents are taking it to task for what they see as its failure to tackle Arab-Muslim anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitism by Israelis won't be getting any mention though, I'm guessing.

01-23-06 - ADL chief: Franklin affair could pose threat to Jewish lobbyists Some American Jewish leaders are concerned by the influence the trial could have on the relations between Jewish groups and the administration

01-23-06 - GOV SEEKS N.Y. $$ FOR ISRAEL HOSPITAL A provision tucked away in Gov. Pataki's proposed budget would allow the state to help a Jewish group dramatically expand a hospital it runs - in Israel.

01-23-06 - From 2004: US thought control of Middle East studies Having failed in their first effort, the neo-cons are now attempting to assert political control over teaching, research and public programs of the international area studies centers

01-23-06 - Hillary Clinton, War Goddess It is the task of Israel's amen corner in the U.S. to convince the American public, and especially to prevail upon their elected representatives, that Israel's interests and our own always coincide.

01-20-06 - Brandeis University Faces Threat Of Boycott Over Palestinian Scholar it has succeeded upending nominations and appointments of people whom it finds objectionable.

01-19-06 - Jewish Legislators Build International Network in Israel.

01-19-06 - Ohio Senate condemns Iranian?s comments Ohio?s state Senate condemned recent Holocaust-denial comments by Iran?s president.

01-19-06 - Library Group Draws Fire Over Web Site Still, the absence of a pro-Israel link to balance the pro-Arab link on the ALA-approved Web sites for children, troubles Jewish advocates

01-18-06 - Limits on trips for U.S. lawmakers would affect Jewish, Israel lobbies Jewish groups have used trips to Israel as a key tool to help lawmakers, especially non-Jewish members of Congress, understand the significance of the Jewish state and its need for political support. Such trips have helped the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other groups sensitize Congress to Israeli concerns. "sensitize", more like INFLUENCE.

01-18-06 - Pro-Israel program gets grant A program that teaches pro-Israel advocacy to U.S. high school students received a $100,000 grant.

01-16-06 - AIPAC Sponsored Trips Should be Made Illegal The overreaching of lobby groups such as AIPAC and the power it exerts on US foreign policy prompts a need for regulation and transparency. The Council for the National Interest is promoting a Foreign Lobby Registration Act, and those interested in signing the act may read it on CNI?s website.

01-15-06 - Christian evangelicals waving the Israeli flag Each statement is greeted by thunderous applause. If you didn't know better, you'd think the event was a campaign rally for Israel's hard-line Likud Party. But this night the packed ballroom is at the Altamonte Springs Hilton. And the speaker is the Rev. John Hagee, foremost exponent of "Christian Zionism," who repeatedly brings nearly 1,000 cheering evangelicals to their feet. During the evening, the attendees will open their wallets to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to help buy an ambulance for an Israeli relief agency.

01-12-06 - 103 Congress members to Israel in 2005 "The legislative branch has maintained its unique and long-standing status as a stronghold of support for Israel, transcending party lines and Congressional houses," he said

01-12-06 - Bush signs pact with Israel clause The American Israel Public Affairs Committee helped shepherd the agreement through Congress in hopes it would set a precedent for other Arab nations angling for free trade pacts with the United States.

01-12-06 - Ashland Jew joins Green Party to defend Israel Employing a circle-within-a-circle strategy, Acheatel has now joined the Greens for one reason: to create a groundswell of member activism to reverse the party's anti-Israel resolution.... "It's my contention that America's political leadership is very favorable toward Israel," he said, "but that eventually it will cave in without the widespread support of the population. So, Israel's PR efforts need shoring up in order to maintain that support."

01-12-06 - IOF Soldier: "You are disgusting Arabs and you should be beaten like animals and stay in jail." it was an American guy who was serving in the Israeli military

01-11-06 - Leading candidates for high post in House are both strong on Israel DeLay was known for his affection for Israel and its settlement movement. Boehner and Blunt don't have the same closeness to Israel's right wing, but both men have records that please the pro-Israel community."Both have traveled to Israel, their voting records are very strong, both are great candidates," said an official of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who asked not to be identified because it's AIPAC's policy not to comment on political races. George Washington is rolling in his grave.

01-11-06 - Christian Zionist support - a mixed blessing

01-09-06 - Lawmakers visit hospital to pass along well wishes for Sharon "We are here in solidarity. We are here in hope," said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, one of about 50 lawmakers in Jerusalem

01-08-06 - Among Evangelicals, A Kinship With Jews Scholars of religion call this worldview "philo-Semitism," the opposite of anti-Semitism. It is a burgeoning phenomenon in evangelical Christian churches across the country, a hot topic in Jewish historical studies and a wellspring of support for Israel.

01-06-06 - U.S. lawmakers urge E.U. to shun Hamas

01-06-06 - Divestment supporter runs for state rep Pandering to the lobby.

01-05-06 - Bush at Risk of Losing Closest Mideast Ally

01-03-06 - ADL Brings Campus Leaders on Study Mission to Israel

01-01-06 - Israel-Firster Cheryl Halpern Named Head Of Corporation for Public Broadcasting Formerly chairwoman for the Republican Jewish Coalition, Halpern currently sits on the board of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a spinoff of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Israel?s Washington, DC lobby...



12-31-05 - Criticizing Israel Is Anti-Semitism This resolution is only marginally about anti-Semitism and very much about Israel?s treatment at the U.N. It specifically equates anti-Israel actions with anti-Semitism.

12-31-05 - American Jews' split personality The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which mounted a similar offensive, refrained from directly criticizing the president and called on its member groups to exert pressure on Congress and foreign governments, and to send letters to top administration officials

12-30-05 - Princeton Panelists Share Cautionary Tales Of Dangers to Academic Freedom Describing The David Project?s mission as political rather than academic?to improve Israel?s image on campus?he said it has succeeded in casting a shadow on the future of Middle East studies You will teach Israel's version or else you will be smeared as an anti-Semite, evidently.

12-29-05 - Bulgaria pressed on Holocaust compensation The property was confiscated in 1943, and an administrative court ruled in 1992 that the Jewish community was entitled to just under 50 percent of it. U.S. Representatives do not, however, demand the same of those who have unlawfully seized the property of the Palestinians.

12-28-05 - Guide tracks US reps' votes on Israel The decision to include legislator's voting records on Israel in the Christian Voter's Guide was arranged at the urging of the Knesset's increasingly-influential 'Christian Allies Caucus,' and comes at a time of increasing cooperation between Israel and Christian supporters of Israel worldwide, a goal the cross-party parliamentary lobby works to further.

12-28-05 - Top Jewish group 'terror' apology Washington said it would freeze any assets of the charity in the US and banned US nationals from having any dealings with the organisation. The Charity Commission, the UK watchdog, froze the charity's accounts and launched an investigation. It later cleared Interpal, saying Washington had not been able to substantiate the claim. The US Treasury has however kept Interpal on its list of suspected organisations, a situation that continues to infuriate many British Muslims. Ever wonder why politics in Britain (our best ally) are so profoundly different than they are here? Is there an AIPAC in Britain?

12-27-05 - Iran could have bomb in two years: Israeli intelligence "One or two years from now at the latest, Iran will have the fissionable material to make a nuclear bomb. From then on, producing the bomb is just a straightforward technical process," Two years? Not so long ago they said six months.

12-27-05 - U.S. Defends Israeli Firing on Gaza And the sun will rise tomorrow, story at eleven.

12-27-05 - Telling it like it isn't This is only the tip of the semantic iceberg that has crashed into American journalism in the Middle East. Illegal Jewish settlements for Jews and Jews only on Arab land are clearly "colonies," and we used to call them that. I cannot trace the moment when we started using the word "settlements." But I can remember the moment around two years ago when the word "settlements" was replaced by "Jewish neighborhoods" - or even, in some cases, "outposts."

12-27-05 - Israel lobbies for U.S. convicts According to the report, Israeli officials would release them eventually since the convicts already have spent 27 years behind bars.

12-26-05 - Israel's War Deadline Iran in the Crosshairs All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran. The thinking behind this date is to heighten the pressure on the US to force the sanctions issue in the Security Council. The tactic is to blackmail Washington with the "war or else" threat, into pressuring Europe (namely Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia) into approving sanctions.

12-26-05 - Sharon party wants to fix borders of Israel The last attempt by a nation to procure land taken by force was by Saddam Hussein in 1991. Yet, Israel is allowed to do the same and receive the full backing of the US.

12-26-05 - U.S. national menorah lit The U.S. homeland security secretary helped light the National Menorah in Washington. So it's only the Christmas symbols that can't be displayed on govt property?

12-25-05 - Pro-Israel Group Criticizes White House Policy on Iran the news releases mark the first major criticism of the Bush White House Because everything that Bush has done thus far has been done in accordance with their agenda.

12-23-05 - Christian Right Leader Warns Foxman on Israel Wildmon's comment is the latest thrust in an ongoing duel between liberal Jewish leaders and the religious right after Foxman condemned what he called a campaign "to Christianize America"

12-23-05 - Congress gives Israel defense money The allocation, $150 million more than the White House request, passed the House of Representatives Thursday as part of the Defense Appropriations Bill. The measure passed the Senate Wednesday. The earmark includes $133 million for the Arrow Anti-Ballistic Missile System, $37.4 million for the LITENING Targeting and Navigation Pod, $22 million for Reactive Armor tiles for Bradley fighting vehicles and $17 million for the ITALD aircraft decoy system.

12-22-05 - US Corporate Media Erases Israeli Role in Rise of Hamas Israel originally supported Hamas when it was founded in 1987 as an alternative to the PLO, another fact ignored by the media

12-22-05 - Senators urge Bush on Hamas Seventy-three U.S. senators signed a letter urging President Bush to call on the Palestinian Authority to disarm Hamas before elections next month More legislation for Israel.

12-22-05 - Human rights hypocrisy A glaring example of Washington's double standard is U.S. support for Israel in the form of financial and military aid totaling nearly $3 billion a year, along with vetoes of U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of Israel's denial of the human rights of Palestinian Muslims and Christians

12-21-05 - Israeli Capt. Speaks on Mideast Conflict One student asked how many Palestinians have been killed in the five years of conflict. Dallal said 4,000 but that the differentiation between combatants and civilians is harder to establish than for Israelis because women and children are sometimes suicide bombers and, therefore, combatants. That's strange because women and children were also considered 'combatants' by the IDF long before the advent of suicide bombings. Imagine.

12-21-05 - Republican Jewish Coalition Thanks Senator Santorum for Iran Resolution which condemned the recent disparaging and destructive statements made toward Israel and all Jewish people by Iran?s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

12-21-05 - Senators push to exclude Hamas from elections Seventy U.S. senators on Wednesday called on President George W. Bush to make it clear to Palestinian leaders that Hamas and other groups that the United States wants terrorist organizations to disarm or be banned from upcoming Palestinian elections. Why is this our problem? Who made it so? Do our legislators have so little to do that they feel the need to wile away their time on matters that have little bearing on the American taxpaying public?

12-21-05 - U.S. Terror Victims' Families Sue Italy The families of three Americans killed in Palestinian suicide bombings have accused the Italian government of siding with Iran in a legal battle to collect damages from the Islamic regime's assets in Italy More legislation in US Congress to be passed in light of these recent events, news at six.

12-21-05 - House passes Saudi education resolution JTA recently revealed in a special investigation that Saudi Arabia is also funding teaching materials for American public schools that contain anti-Israel and anti-Western views.

12-20-05 - Senate passes Iran condemnation More legislation for Israel. We are now up to a resolution a week.

12-20-05 - Ze'evi: US-Iran diplomatic process 'stuck in the mud' He warned that Iran posed a substantial threat to Israel's security, and that the United States was "stuck in the mud" in dealing with the situation.

12-20-05 - ADL: Evangelicals threat to religious pluralism Foxman said that Evangelical Christians are attempting to implement changes "by legislation," Irony and chutzpah are two terms that come to mind.

12-20-05 - Shin Bet to testify against Hamas in U.S.

12-20-05 - Foxman: Spielberg's 'Munich' treats Israel fairly Moreover, he said, the film "shows with respect and understanding ... the need to respond to terrorism." In that sense, he added, the movie could even be seen as a defense of America's actions in Iraq

12-19-05 - Analysis / Congress keeps one eye on the Jewish lobby The resolution by the U.S. Congress, which is couched in vague terms, is typical of its behavior in an election year (elections are in November 2006) in which its members need funding and political support from the pro-Israel AIPAC

12-18-05 - Lawmakers say Colorado can learn from Israel The Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado sponsored and paid for a big chunk of the trip. Rose and Penry said legislators footed the rest of the bill.

12-18-05 - Bush pressed on Saudi aid Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) authored language in this year?s Foreign Operations Appropriations bill that prevents the united States from sending money to Saudi Arabia unless the president can ascertain that the country has cooperated in the war against terror. Last year, the president waived the ban. Weiner is staunchly pro-Israel.

12-17-05 - U.S. threatens PA sanctions The Palestinian Authority risks losing U.S. financial aid and other support if it allows Hamas to participate in parliamentary elections next month, the House of representatives says

12-17-05 - Bush Says Iraq War Is Good for Israel Senator John Warner of Virginia, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently argued in an interview with MSNBC that a premature American pullout would "put Israel in a very tenuous and vulnerable position." And a GOP activist, Bruce Blakeman, told the Forward that Israel's security has always played a key role in the president's thinking on Iraq. Pro-Israeli groups are now backpeddling away from their critical support of the Iraq war.

12-17-05 - Shalom praises US House for decision The pro-Israel lobby in Washington (AIPAC) who worked behind the scenes to garner support for the resolution issued a statement Friday praising the resolution and calling on the PA to take immediate action to prevent the Hamas from participating in the elections.

12-16-05 - Influential congresswoman faults Bush on Iran Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is an Israel-firster, judging by the amount of legislation she proposes to our Congress on behalf of Israel.

12-16-05 - Bolton: Israel treated unequally at U.N. ?I want to make it clear that we are not finished with the issue,? he said. The only issue John Bolton has dealt with to date at the UN is Israel. John Bolton = ISRAEL'S new ambaassador to the UN.

12-16-05 - Hamas resolution passes The resolution, supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and opposed by Americans for Peace Now, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday in a 397-17 vote. More legislation for Israel.

12-16-05 - House backs Jewish month The measure, introduced by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), asks President Bush to declare January as American Jewish History Month by executive order.

12-16-05 - Harvard Urged To Return $20M Gift Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D-N.Y.), wrote a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers on Tuesday urging him to return the recent $20 million gift for Islamic Studies given by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. You had to know this was coming, and from the usual corners. Weiner couldn't be any more of an Israeli shill if he tried.

12-15-05 - Busharon The Israelis have also obliged recently, providing legal advice to the U.S. State Department on how to justify assassinations. Israeli military trainers have passed on the lessons of Jenin and Nablus to the Marines in Falluja. Lest you think the Israelis stingy, they don't limit their largesse to the federal government. They are now spreading their anti-terrorism gospel to every town and city police chief in the U.S. Charleston, South Carolina breathes easier, thanks to the knowledge gleaned from Israel by their Sheriff Cannon (I did not make that up), who is in charge of port security there.

12-15-05 - US Jews feel threatened by religious right "Every room (from bedroom to classroom) in the American mansion is under assault to impose either de facto or de jure a Christian theocracy -- I call them Christocrats," said Rabbi James Rudin, former head of interreligious activities for the American Jewish Committee. The irony. For we American taxpayers are forced to support Israel- a state based on religion

12-15-05 - Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says. The BS-o-meter just broke.

12-15-05 - Congressman: Save the holidays Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) planned to introduce his resolution Thursday evening to counter another resolution, introduced earlier by Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Va.), that ?recognizes the importance of the symbols and traditions of Christmas? and ?strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas.?

12-15-05 - Hamas resolution considered The resolution, supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and opposed by Americans for Peace Now, was considered late Wednesday night, and was set to undergo a roll call on Thursday.

12-15-05 - U.S.-Israel scanner deal signed The United States and Israel signed a $50 million agreement to put high-tech scanners at border crossings into Palestinian areas. The money comes out of $300 million earmarked this year for the Palestinians Palestinians get to pay for the Israeli checkpoints.

12-15-05 - Former IDF chief sued in U.S. court for his role in Kafr Kana shelling Ya'alon is currently in Washington D.C. as a research fellow at the Washington Institute. He is scheduled to give a lecture on lessons learned during the war against terror at a conference on Thursday night.

12-15-05 - Israeli consul general takes jab at Muslims "I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists, but I can say something else: All terrorists are Muslims," Ben Gad said.

12-14-05 - Israel approves 200 homes in W.Bank settlement Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has approved 200 new homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, a government official said on Wednesday, despite a call by a U.S.-backed peace plan for a halt to such construction This is in violation of international law, and is not a move conducive to peace.

12-14-05 - At odds over U.S. resolution on Hamas Jewish groups are at odds over a congressional resolution that threatens repercussions should Hamas join a Palestinian government.

12-14-05 - Jewish leaders praise Corzine?s choice of Menendez as Senate replacement Praising him as a strong supporter of Israel since he first entered the House of Representatives in 1992, Jewish community leaders welcomed the appointment of U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez (D-Dist. 13) to replace Gov.-elect Jon Corzine in the United States Senate next month....Josh Block, spokesperson for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, described Menendez as "among the few really outstanding leaders on issues of importance to the pro-Israel community."

12-14-05 - Al-Arian's Near Total Acquittal Raises More Questions Than It Answers Evidence that the prosecution and media persecution of Al-Arian was an Israeli operation from the get-go continues to mount. In reporting the verdict, the Jerusalem Post wrote, "Israel has played a major role in the prosecution, providing countless documents regarding the conduct of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad... ."

12-14-05 - Presbyterians hold back on divestment Chicago Presbyterians on Tuesday overwhelmingly agreed that Presbyterian Church (USA) should confront corporations that prolong Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, but they divided on whether it should use economic leverage to push for peace

12-12-05 - Clinton praises Israel as Mideast ally "That bond is rooted in fundamental beliefs and values about the dignity of men and women and the right to live without fear or repression," Evidently Clinton has never heard of the phrase Liberty and Justice for ALL

12-12-05 - Sniper target laser 'fell on man' An inquest into the death of UN worker Iain Hook has reopened at Ipswich. No American inquest into this death or these deaths though. See also - Jenin riddle: Why did an Israeli soldier shoot a British official in the back?

12-12-05 - Bush admits Israel is the reason why we are 'spreading democracy' in the Middle East "Israel's long-term survival depends upon the spread of democracy in the Middle East." Bush confirms what I know to be true: we are in the Middle East, under the pretext of spreading democracy, for the benefit of Israel.

12-11-05 - Gay Rights Vs. Anti-Israel Rhetoric Court watchers in the Jewish community say the Solomon Amendment could set a precedent for allowing Congress to set parameters for federal funds it gives to institutes of higher education. Jewish groups see that as an opportunity to move legislation through Congress to stem anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric on campus.....They're working on Capitol Hill to get an advisory board to monitor money doled out through Title VI, but if that doesn't work, Jewish leaders say they like having another potential option.

12-10-05 - Al-Arian Trial Was Big News In Middle East Israel saw the trial, as the Post called it, "as the biggest and most elaborate case the U.S. has brought against a suspect in aiding terror since the 9-11 attacks." Israel provided documents and sent witnesses, including relatives of victims of bus bombings, to testify for the prosecution. Unfortunately for those that are accustomed to throwing people into 'administrative detention' without any charges being necessary and without any legal counsel and sometimes for years - it must be a shock that Americans still require actual EVIDENCE to convict someone of a crime. God bless America.

12-09-05 - AFA's Don Wildmon: If ADL's Foxman criticizes religious right, some of them "won't support Israel anymore"

12-09-05 - Israeli Aides Warn U.S. Not To Drop Ball on Iran This view, according to a senior official with a major Jewish organization, is shared by many in the Jewish community. "Frankly, as I hear from many Israeli officials: America picked the wrong adversary to fight in the Gulf, and the war against Iraq is now restraining it from leading a diplomatic campaign ? let alone a military one ? on Iran," the Jewish communal official said. Oh the irony and the audacity.

12-09-05 - New N.J. senator friendly to Israel Rep. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, traveled to Israel in August on a tour sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?s educational arm. I

12-09-05 - Foreign Ministry denounces U.S. lawsuit against ex-Shin Bet chief "We see this as a cynical manipulation of the courts by groups with extremist agendas," Israelis have done the very same thing here in the US courts. Palestinians have now taken their initiative. I guess the former doesn't like a taste of their own medicine.

12-08-05 - AJC: World Must Act on Iran's Vow to Destroy Israel AJC is asking the United Nations to take appropriate action against Iran, a UN member, for openly calling for the destruction of another member state, Israel.

12-08-05 - House approves Bahrain free trade The American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied hard for the bill

12-08-05 - Israel travel bill passed The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation preventing companies from denying life insurance to people who travel to Israel

12-08-05 - Congress: Elect Hamas, lose funds Sponsors of a resolution to ban terrorist groups from Palestinian elections said Congress could withhold funds to the Palestinians if Hamas joins the government. More legislation for Israel.

12-08-05 - ZOA opposes Rice letter The Zionist Organization of America urged members of Congress not to sign a letter commending Condoleezza Rice for brokering a deal that opened the Gaza Strip-Egypt border

12-08-05 - UJC, JCPA host Hispanic Israel tour The Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the United Jewish Communities are hosting a tour of Israel for Hispanic leaders.

12-08-05 - ZOA Praises U.S. Ambassador To U.N. John Bolton "Ambassador Bolton's recent efforts on the Netanya bombing and Hezbollah follow a long, principled record of support for Israel .....The ZOA calls on all Jewish organizations to publicly praise John Bolton for his great work and to thank President Bush for this splendid appointment."" John Bolton = ISRAEL'S new ambassador to the UN.

12-07-05 - U.S. gives Israel a large new camp Nachshonim, which covers almost 400 acres, is the third base the United States has built for Israel under an agreement reached during the 1998 Wye River talks with the Palestinian Authority

12-07-05 - Expert: Patriot Act No 'Magic Bullet' The Patriot Act was manufactured to conduct witchhunts for, you shouldn't need anything more than what was already in place if you had probable cause. Those that have embarked on these witchhunts are learning that real Americans (sitting on juries) still need EVIDENCE. Find out who is being prosecuted the most using the PA and you find who is conducting the witchhunts. Hint, haven't seen too many Al Qaeda cases in the US in a long time, eh? Mostly cases having to do with a certain foreign country.

12-07-05 - Eric Boehlert: Sami Al-Arian: The Terror Verdict TV Networks Ignored

12-07-05 - Candidates for U.S. Senate weave Israel into campaigns

12-07-05 - House urges U.N. to curb Israel-bashing It passed 400-1, with only Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), a vocal critic of Israel, voting against. More legislation for Israel.

12-06-05 - Jewish leaders to devise strategy "We face a better-financed, more sophisticated, coordinated, unified, energized and organized coalition of groups in opposition to our policy positions on church-state separation than ever before," he said. "Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview. To Christianize America. To save us." This coming from the organization that advocates for a state based on another religion, and one that America funds to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars whether we like it or not.

12-06-05 - The Pollard Affair - In Halacha: To Free A Captive Is To 'Free G-d' Throughout history, Jews have gone to remarkable lengths to retrieve their brethren from hostile hands. Pollard did grave damage to the security of the United States.

12-06-05 - Ex-professor cleared on some terror charges In a stinging defeat for prosecutors, a former Florida professor accused of helping lead a terrorist group that has carried out suicide bombings against Israel was acquitted on nearly half the charges against him Tuesday, and the jury deadlocked on the rest. I wonder if our government could now start spending taxpayer money on hunting down and prosecuting OUR enemies?

12-06-05 - Israel wants different ?brand? Initiated by Israel's Foreign Ministry, the group plans to work in North America and Europe with leading Israeli advertising firms and businesses and Diaspora Jewish communities to "brand" Israel as more than just a country at war More propagandizing needed, evidently.

12-05-05 - Jewish Groups: Time For A Full Accounting of Meetings With Hezbollah Presbys now answer to Jewish groups?

12-05-05 - White House goes kosher Bush will meet with Jewish educators before the party, which hosts a cross-section of the Jewish leadership.

12-05-05 - DNC opposes divestment The Democratic National Committee came out against efforts to divest from Israel or the Palestinian areas.

12-05-05 - Steele goes to Israel Steele is the likely Republican contender for the Maryland seat in the U.S. Senate that opens in 2006. Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), scion of a well-known Maryland Jewish family with strong Israel ties, is one of two Democrats who will likely run against Steele

12-04-05 - US preparing non-UN sanctions on Iran American officials told their Israeli counterparts recently that the US would take the Iran issue to the UN only if it is sure that the case is "veto proof," meaning that it has assurances from the permanent members in the Security Council not to use their veto power to bloc a resolution against Iran The title for this article has since changed, I have kept the original. Say, I wonder who would be behind this sudden push anyway?

12-04-05 - U.S. policy on Iran called ineffective After new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month called for Israel's destruction, the leading pro-Israel lobbying group -- the American Israel Public Affairs Committee -- took the unusual step of publicly faulting the U.S. approach. My but how they do whine when America doesn't do Israel's bidding to their liking.

12-03-05 - Diplomatic construction initiatives to transfer the American embassy have emanated from the US Congress, whose members have long been lobbied by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and other activist groups.....AIPAC in particular has encouraged Congress members to write and cosponsor legislation mandating the embassy's move....A 1999 statement notes some Congress members' dissatisfaction with the president's use of the Embassy Act's waiver clause, but the issue appears to have been displaced more recently by other lobbying efforts, most of which are related to the disengagement, Hizbullah and Iran's nuclear weapons program.

12-02-05 - From 1996: Defense Memo Warned of Israeli Spying; 'Ethnic Ties' Charge Draws ADL Rebuke; Drawing on the example of the Pollard case and four other Israeli espionage operations in the United States, the memo said that the country's recruitment techniques include "ethnic targeting, financial aggrandizement, and identification and exploitation of individual frailties" of U.S. citizens. "Placing Israeli nationals in key industries . . . is a technique utilized with great success," the memo said.

12-02-05 - Effort for review of anti-Semitism on campus meeting new resistance The Senate language, inserted in the Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005 and passed by the Senate on Nov. 3, would gut plans to make universities that receive federal funds accountable to the Education Department to the degree that some Jewish groups have sought. They seek to legislate pro-Isreal views on campus.

12-02-05 - AIPAC raps US handling of Iran nukes

12-02-05 - Canada continues shift toward Israel Upholding international law at the UN = "Israel-bashing", evidently. Israel is above the law and criticism.

12-01-05 - Democrats Forget Palestine, Again and Again... Recently Dean returned from a week-long jaunt to Israel sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC). Shortly after his return Dean spoke to an elite crowd of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) friends and lobbyists in Philadelphia about his trip to Israel. And the audience was pleased with what they heard.

12-01-05 - 'McCarthyism' chills pro-Israel campus voices: Dershowitz Dershowitz is the same man that sought to stop the publication of Finkelstein's book. And this article is Orwellian for the fact that those who are using McCarthyism to quell campus speech are the pro-Israelis themselves - see this article from yesterday

12-01-05 - Israel to Pressure Iran on Nuke Issue Israel is pressuring US to pressure Iran via AIPAC. See this from yesterday's news.

12-01-05 - Israel will not accept Iran nuclear weapons: Sharon "We must do everything possible to prepare for such a situation. But Israel is not spearheading any campaign" " But Israel is not spearheading any campaign" " - AHHHAHAHAHAHA. That's hilarious.

12-01-05 - US calls on Iran to return to nuclear talks Israel says 'jump', our government replies 'how high?'.

12-01-05 - Israelis trained Kurds in Iraq But that?s not all. Leading Israeli companies in the field of security and counter-terrorism have set up a training camp under the codename Z at a secret location in a desertic region in northern Iraq, where Israeli experts provide training in live fire exercises and self-defense to Kurdish security forces.....Motorola Israel said it is a U.S. company that operates in over 70 countries throughout the world, including in Iraq where it helped set up a cellular phone network and provided communications systems and equipment to Iraqi security forces. See yesterday's article - here and we wonder why Iraqis didn't welcome us with the red carpet treatment.

12-01-05 - Sharon Ally: Border Will Follow Barrier Israel's border with a future Palestinian state will roughly follow the route of the contentious barrier Israel is building along and inside the West Bank, a top ally of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted Thursday as saying. No other nation gets to draw up its own borders at will and at the expense of another people, with the full backing of the United States. Saddam Hussein was beaten back out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War for this very same reason.

12-01-05 - Palestinian committees OK?d at U.N. Israel, its supporters and Jewish leaders have also called for the committees to be abolished. "Israel, its supporters" = John Bolton, ISRAEL'S new ambassador to the U.N.

12-01-05 - Galloway Under Fire After TV Slur He added: "Almost all politicians in Washington blindly support Israel. Senator Norman Coleman, the senator who was accusing me is the closest friend of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee."

11-30-05 - Prosecutors drop charges in smuggling of fake money Prosecutors in federal court decided to drop all charges yesterday against an Israeli man who had wanted to plead guilty to smuggling $1.5 million in fake U.S. currency into Maryland

11-30-05 - National Guard begins exchange with Israeli forces "We are two nations in a world that is a very, very dangerous place. We are two democracies with a common purpose and common values. There are some things that we can offer to you back in the states, and there are some magnificent opportunities for us over here." Apartheid, as one example, is not an American value, last I checked.

11-30-05 - AIPAC slams White House on Iran The American Israel Public Affairs Committee criticized the White House for not pushing the U.N. nuclear watchdog to recommend sanctions for Iran.

11-30-05 - Israel sees Iran nuclear countdown "If, by the end of March, it does not succeed in transferring the issue to the Security Council, it will be possible to say that the diplomatic effort has failed,"

11-30-05 - O.U.: Hands off Israel elections The Orthodox Union called on U.S. Jews not to intervene in Israel?s electoral process. Passion for Israel "ought not be channeled into inappropriate interventions in the policy decisions of the duly elected Israeli government, Israel?s elections or into lobbying the American government to pressure Israel to make concessions it would not otherwise make,"

11-30-05 - An Interview with Congressman Jim Gerlach PJV: In a recent interview, Gov. Howard Dean, who visited Israel just last month, said that while Israelis were initially happy to see the U.S. remove Saddam Hussein from power, they're starting to disagree with the assessment you just gave. He said there is growing anxiety among Israelis that the war in Iraq has destabilized the region, increased terrorism and emboldened Iran. Americans being blamed by Israelis for destabilization of the ME. This is rich.

11-30-05 - Little town of Bethlehem imprisoned by Apartheid wall Perhaps you simply did not have time to stop by and greet us, the people who would be the other half of any agreement which would allow Israel to live in security and peace. Or perhaps while you had Bethlehem in the background of the publicity photos, you had certain of your constituents in New York in the forefront of your mind.

11-30-05 - Move to Shrink Palestinian Programmes Spurs Protest A New York newspaper quoted U.S. Ambassador John Bolton as saying that the United States would oppose the adoption of the U.N.'s two-year budget for 2006-2007 until and unless there were wide ranging changes in management, including "the elimination of outdated missions". According to one Arab diplomat, "this is a code word for Palestinian programmes". He said the move to "shrink" the U.N. Division for Palestinian Rights and the proposal to eliminate or downsize the two committees dealing with Palestinian issues are being prompted by two countries: the United States and Israel.

11-30-05 - Taxpayers, Beware: It's Time to Act on Bias! Instead of this board, a Senate version of a bill on the issue leaves it all in the hands of the Secretary of Education. The secretary would have the power to suspend federal funding to universities where bias is rampant. But after 60 days, the funding would be reinstated, no matter whether complaints had been resolved or not. Pro-Israeli groups seek to force, via the withholding of federal monies, their viewpoints down the throats of college students. It will backfire in the end.

11-29-05 - New Book Exposes Pervasive Anti-Semitism in U.S. Higher Education Thus does the propaganda campaign (which is naturally playing the 'anti-Semite' card and equating anti-Israelism to anti-Semitism) to force colleges and Universities to be more pro-Israel continue.

11-29-05 - Hoyer looks to Israel aid Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he believes the United States will approve a supplemental aid package for Israel next year. This aid will be used to develop the Negev and Galilee while New Orleans still lays awaste

11-29-05 - U.S., Israel discuss Iran Iran was a focus of the renewed Israel-U.S. strategic dialogue.

11-28-05 - Israel-U.S. dialogue resumed The United States suspended the dialogue in recent years because of Israeli arms sales to China

11-26-05 - UN Amb. John Bolton And Jerusalem Post's Caroline Glick The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased to announce that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will be the Keynote Speaker at the annual ZOA Louis Brandeis Award Dinner. He will also receive ZOA?s Defender of Israel award Defender of Israel award? Why would that be? Because John Bolton is ISRAEL'S new ambassador to the U.N., that's why.

11-26-05 - Anti-Semitism on the rise on college campuses "We would argue that anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Israelism " Anti-Israelism has now become 'anti-Semitism'. The definition is drawn up at will just like Israel's borders.

11-26-05 - UNRWA plans to construct 600 new homes for refugees Neocon John Bolton wants to abolish UNRWA

11-24-05 - Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel The confidential report, prepared by top diplomats representing the 25 EU governments in the city, warns that the chances of a two-state solution are being eroded by Israel's "deliberate policy" - in breach of international of law - of "completing the annexation of East Jerusalem". Who leaked the report, and why? To abort the opening of the Rafah crossing?

11-23-05 - Syria sanctions extended President Bush signed a bill that extends sanctions already in place against Iran to Syria as well

11-23-05 - AIPAC seeks Iran sanctions ?It will be very disappointing if the IAEA fails this week to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council,? the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said in a statement Wednesday.

11-23-05 - Campuses team up against terror Israeli and American universities plan to cooperate on national-security issues.

11-23-05 - Calls To Monitor Pro-Arab Bias Rejected The main proposal, which Jewish groups have been lobbying Congress to write into law, would be the establishment of an "advisory board" to monitor Middle Eastern studies departments and report to the Department of Education on whether these departments are balanced in their teaching of regional affairs. The advisory board would include political appointees.

11-22-05 - Lawmakers want Hamas out Six lawmakers introduced a resolution calling on the Palestinian Authority to prevent Hamas participation in upcoming elections. More legislation for Israel.

11-22-05 - Lawmakers want U.N. Palestinian bodies nixed The Bush administration has proposed abolishing the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division of Palestinian Rights. The congress members, all senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives? International Relations Committee, also proposed doing away with the Special Committee to investigate Israeli human rights practices affecting the Palestinian people More legislation for Israel.

11-22-05 - Whom Do We Really Fear? GOP and Dems take aim at Jewish vote with calls to arms against different foes The affair was yet another demonstration of the wall-to-wall support for the pro-Israel agenda of AIPAC among both officeholders and activists

11-20-05 - Bush aide says Iraq withdrawal bad for Israel In remarks prepared for delivery to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) summit, Stephen Hadley said building democracy where Saddam Hussein's regime once stood would help that staunch US ally.

11-20-05 - American Christian Fundamentalist Leader Calls For Global War For Evans, and numerous other rabid Christian fundamentalist preachers of hate like him, one of the most crucial purposes of America's invasion of Iraq is the 'defence' of Israel, which he regards as a solemn Christian duty.

11-20-05 - Rabbi appeals for Pollard In a letter he sent Bush ahead of the 20th anniversary this week of Pollard?s arrest for spying for Israel, Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu referred to the former U.S. Navy analyst as ?an honorable man with noble sentiments that should be taken into consideration.?

11-19-05 - The compromise of the U.S. government by Israeli interests

11-19-05 - Pete McCloskey interviewed, speaks about AIPAC Highly recommended.

11-19-05 - Divestment Martin Luther King Jr.'s protest actions led him to a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. There he received a letter from local religious leaders telling him that his actions were "unwise and untimely" because they harmed relations between blacks and whites. King's response, in his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail," was that he had already done a lot of talking. Now it was time to act.

11-18-05 - House votes to cut $700 mln in food stamps Aid to Israel will flow uninterrupted though: "Pro-Israeli sources were encouraged by the fact that legislators have not asked for across-the-board cuts in foreign aid to help finance recovery efforts in New Orleans and elsewhere" US, Israel resume talks on $1.2b special aid package

11-18-05 - Commission looks at campus anti-Semitism A federal commission resisted Jewish groups? call for governmental oversight of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses...commissioners acknowledged the problem and said they would consider an investigation. Pro-Palestinian activism will fall under the definition of 'anti-Semitism', I'm guessing. That's what this is all about; too many college kids are getting the truth, and the pro-Israelis do not like it.

11-18-05 - Committee: Treat Israel fairly A powerful congressional committee passed a resolution calling on the United Nations to treat Israel more fairly. More legislation for Israel.

11-17-05 - Evidence Mounts That Bush Wants New Wars The prudent assumption is that not much of it is bluff, and that Bush, the radical Christians, the Christian Zionists, the nation's military-industrial conglomerates, and their Israeli allies -- all of whom today call the tune in U.S. foreign policy -- are willing and in some cases actually wish to involve the United States in further wars.

11-17-05 - Travel insurance bill passes House committee Rep. Debra Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who has advocated the legislation since she was denied life insurance because she intended to travel to Israel

11-17-05 - N.Y. Jewish leaders lobby Rice on Gaza Strip border deal Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it was not uncommon for Jewish organizations to lobby the administration to exert pressure on Israel. Foxman himself opposes such activity,

11-17-05 - Ambassador praises U.S. for standing by Israel "The Palestinian refugee issue is misrepresented," he charged. "And Israel refuses to take responsibility. It was the Arab leaders who were responsible for their problems. "The Palestinians were not a people until the Zionist movement got its homeland." The rot goes all the way to the top. Israel forces Palestinians to recognize it and its right to exist, but Israel refuses to dot he same for the Palestinian people.

11-17-05 - Understanding grows during Israel seminar Bradbury spent eight days in Israel in mid-September with eight other state government officials from five other U.S. states.

11-17-05 - UNRWA can't end activities in Palestinian refugee camps: PNA FM Oddly, John Bolton has sought to do just that. Why would this issue be of any concern to him anyway? The Israelis and their neocon cohorts in America are beginnning a campaign to dissuade Palestinians to give up their right of return once and for all, is the sense that I'm getting lately. "Imagine if Canada took a role in trying to convince Palestinians not to want to return,"

11-17-05 - Israel finds an ally in American evangelicals With evangelicals in the White House and in the Republican leadership of Congress, pragmatic Israelis and American Jews value the powerful political influence available to evangelicals.

11-16-05 - US, Israel resume talks on $1.2b special aid package "Patience apparently pays," said a knowledgeable source. However, intensive lobbying by the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) seems to have been the main factor behind this development....Pro-Israeli sources were encouraged by the fact that legislators have not asked for across-the-board cuts in foreign aid to help finance recovery efforts in New Orleans and elsewhere

11-16-05 - Nixon Papers Show Worry Over Israel Nukes I went back to Yahoo and did a title search to see if they released this to Yahoo America. This version released to the American Yahoo News site is noticeably different than the version on the Asian Yahoo News site, which is the one I posted here.

11-16-05 - Israel officials at two-day U.S. security session Americans have not experienced terrorism to such a degree that they are willing to have shopping malls and other public areas protected by metal detectors and armed security patrols, an Israeli security expert said Tuesday. "You're not ready yet," The continuation of the Israelization of the United States.

11-16-05 - Hillary: 'I Had A Lot To Prove' Clinton said her campaign next year would highlight her role in building stronger ties between the United States and Israel, seeking tougher sanctions against Syria and her opposition to the International Court of Justice?s ruling on Israel?s security barrier, as well as her role in the fight to help Magen David Adom, Israel?s emergency medical service, gain admission to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

11-15-05 - Hillary in the Holy Land The senator's comments seem as if they were taken word-for-word from an AIPAC position paper. They may well have been. Just last May, Sen. Clinton spoke at an AIPAC conference where she praised the bonds between Israel and the United States:

11-15-05 - Political Zionists Clinton and McCain Proud Supporters of Israel

11-15-05 - Israel?s aid request for next fiscal year nears final passage in Congress Legislators of both political parties have long supported aid to Israel as a means to ensure the security of the only democracy in the Middle East The 'only democracy in the Middle East'? Not anymore. They're going to have to come up with a new mantra.

11-14-05 - Jews Help Bloomberg's Re-election Some cited Bloomberg's anti-terrorism innovations, including stationing police detectives overseas as a source of counterterrorism intelligence for the city, and the mayor's support for Israel, as appealing to the Jewish voters in this year's election See this related article

11-14-05 - Bush signs foreign aid bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied hard for the package, including tough congressional oversight on the $150 million for the Palestinians

11-14-05 - Clinton stresses U.S.-Israel coalition But those words of support contrasted sharply with her virtual silence on Palestinian issues. Clinton spent no time in Gaza or the West Bank, drawing the ire of Palestinian leaders who felt slighted on what was the senator's second visit to Israel since taking office She's not getting my vote.

11-14-05 - Congress Approves Israel Aid Package The bill also includes $40 million in refugee resettlement assistance to Israel and important new provisions that waive certain operating expenses associated with military training and financing provided to Israel, saving Israel an estimated $50-$75 million annually.

11-13-05 - Veteran's Day 2005 On this Veteran's Day, 2005, take time to remember and honor the veterans who served and gave their lives to defend our nation, its constitution and our freedoms; and please take a moment to reflect on the struggle for a full and fair investigation of the USS Liberty attack by the survivors and families of those killed in the attack.

11-13-05 - Envoy Presses for Deal on Gaza Crossings Meanwhile, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said Sunday in Jerusalem that she supports the 425-mile separation barrier Israel is building along the edges of the West Bank, and that the onus is on the Palestinian Authority to fight terrorism.

11-13-05 - Carter 'Disturbed' by Direction of U.S. 'What has happened to the United States of America? We thought you used to be the champion of human rights. We thought you used to protect the environment. We thought you used to believe in the separation of church and state,'"

11-13-05 - Sharon blasts Syria-Iran 'axis of evil' Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has lumped Syria and Iran in his own "axis of evil" and urged stepped-up international efforts to contain the two regimes. Sharon = Bush's puppeteer.

11-13-05 - Israel mission helps Hillary and Condi to court Jewish vote

11-13-05 - PM Sharon: The US Must Pressure Syria And by coincidence, we are. Imagine that?

11-12-05 - Clintons to attend 'American-Israeli Dialog' conference Sat. night

11-11-05 - Foreign Influence Libby was also part of the trio of neoconservatives who pushed the phony intelligence in order to get the U.S. to go to war. Another member of that trio, John Hannah, has now replaced Libby as Vice President Dick Cheney's national-security adviser.....Clearly, their passionate support of Israel influenced their policy positions vis-a-vis Iraq, Syria and Iran. According to Cole's article ? which is excellent, as is his blog ? Chalabi won over the neocons by promising that if he came to power in Iraq, he would recognize Israel.

11-11-05 - 30 years since 'Zionism=Racism' Bolton, who was instrumental in pushing for the measure's repeal. John Bolton - ISRAEL'S new ambassador to the UN.

11-11-05 - Georgia gov pushes Israel trade ties "My faith influences my support and affection towards Israel to a great degree," Separation of Church and State anyone? Where's Abe Foxman now?

11-10-05 - Strengthening Israeli ties "She still wants to be identified as a champion of peace, which is why she's meeting Sharon, but this is an election year and her first priority is to announce allegiance to Israel," he said. "her first priority is to announce allegiance to Israel," Says it all.

11-10-05 - IDF choppers in service of drug cartel The American government has recently demanded Israel clarify how five U.S.-made helicopters sold to Israel in the mid-70s found their way into the hands of a Columbian drug cartel.

11-10-05 - Why are a billion people mad at America? In a word - Israel Our government's grossly imbalanced bias favoring Israel?s side on the Palestine issue is matched by neglect and bias in our media

11-09-05 - A theme park for the Holy Land? Ever since Benjamin Netanyahu - Israel's prime minister from 1996 to 1999 - cultivated ties with US Evangelicals and other Christians during his tenure, Israeli governments have sought to strengthen relations with the sector of the Christian world which, for religious reasons, tends to take a pro-Israeli view of the Arab-Jewish conflict. On Mr. Robertson's website, he says that God gave this land "to the descendants of Israel," not to "so-called Palestinians."

11-09-05 - Interfaith group rallies against Iranian pres. American Jews and leaders of other faiths demanded that Iran?s president be held accountable for calling for Israel?s destruction.

11-09-05 - Georgia, Israel enhance business The governor of Georgia signed business agreements with Israel.

11-09-05 - Churches: Wrestling With Divesting Aided by the Jewish community, pro-Israel members of the Presbyterian Church USA - which last year castigated Israel, and endorsed a policy of divestment over the Jewish state's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and in August targeted the Caterpillar company for selling equipment to the Israeli Defense Forces used to raze Palestinian property - say they are beginning to see the fruits of their lobbying efforts. Divide and conquer.

11-08-05 - Israel Welcomes Proposed Red Cross Emblem this was mostly due to American backing, singling out Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for their support

11-08-05 - House marks papal document The bill also encourages the United States to take the lead in combating anti-Semitism The State Department's definition of 'anti-Semitism' now includes the 'demonization of Israel'

11-08-05 - House backs Israel?s membership in world group The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution expressing support for Israel?s membership in the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation. More legislation for Israel.

11-08-05 - Legislators introduce Rabin legislation Seven members of Congress introduced a resolution honoring Yitzhak Rabin on the 10th anniversary of his assassination. More legislation for Israel.

11-06-05 - Conferees approve Israel aid The package, which the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied for, includes an additional $40 million in refugee-resettlement assistance for Israel, money that helps absorb Ethiopian Jews,

11-04-05 - Defense Doesn't Rest In AIPAC Case Satterfield and Pollack, neither of whom has been charged in the case, allegedly leaked information related to Iran. If required to testify, they likely would be asked why it was important to get this information to the pro- Israel lobby

11-04-05 - Bahrain ready to end boycott The American Israel Public Affairs Committee worked closely with Congress to shape the agreement. The U.S. House of Representatives? Ways and Means committee referred the bill to the full House this week with a provision for a yearly assessment of whether Bahrain indeed has ended the boycott.

11-04-05 - Foxman: groups aim to 'Christianize' U.S. To the contrary, Foxman and his ilk have successfully Israelized America.

11-03-05 - Georgia governor going to Israel ?We expect this mission will generate new economic activity in Georgia and enhance our state?s position as one of Israel?s primary business centers in North America.?

11-02-05 - U.S. security officials go to Israel

11-02-05 - Jewish Dems thank Rice

11-02-05 - Israeli PM adviser urges caution on Hamas But Gold's warning also flies in the face of the policy of rapid democratization throughout the Middle East that has been pushed by leading American neo-conservatives and that has been enthusiastically adopted by President Bush. They want the 'democracy' that they can DICTATE to the Middle Eastern folks - namely, the 'democracy' that's cozy with Israel and all of its policies in the Occupied Territories.

11-01-05 - Washington sources say In the scandal that led last week to the indictment of Lewis Libby, U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of staff, there's a lesson to learn anew for Israel, which is so woven into the Washington experience that once again it is not a foreign body but a faction involved, for good and for bad, in American domestic struggles.

10-31-05 - Title VI Debate Focus on Resource Centers Legislation introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives this session by Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R-Ohio) would create an advisory board to observe the workings of Title VI and report to Congress. So that pro-Israeli 'scholars' can ensure that their agenda is being taught at our universities.

10-31-05 - 2015 release projected for Pollard The U.S. Bureau of Prisons projects a 2015 release date for Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. navy analyst convicted of spying for Israel. The release date, on the bureau?s Web site, is the first indication that the United States plans to release Pollard, who was convicted in 1986 and is serving a life sentence in a North Carolina prison.

10-31-05 - Remarks by Stephen Hadley to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee National Summit 2005 If freedom prevails in Iraq, others in the region - including Syria and Iran - will be under greater pressure to open up their repressive political systems. And that is good news for Israel...But if we succeed in our broader objectives in the War on Terror and in Iraq, Israel will be more secure as a result. No kidding, what a coincidence.

10-29-05 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad AIPAC? Comfy incumbents who know they can?t be toppled nevertheless don?t want to be hounded by Jewish constituents, denounced by local rabbis, abandoned by Jewish contributors and challenged by a suddenly richer, pro-Israel candidate. So they go along to get along. This article seeks to downplay the power of AIPAC. Here is another article on the matter.

10-29-05 - US poor set to lose food stamps The Republican majority on the House Agriculture Committee has approved budget cuts that will take "food stamps" away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children Americans suffer because much-needed funds are being diverted to the neocon's war machine.

10-28-05 - NJ congressman?s letter urges Abbas to take measures against Hamas The other primary author of the letter ? which Capitol Hill sources say was aggressively pushed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ? was Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio).

10-28-05 - Congressmen launch 'Jewish' month Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) will launch the initiative Thursday. A release said the month is aimed at promoting "Jewish unity, peoplehood and social justice programs in Jewish communities throughout the world." It will culminate Nov. 30 at the residence of Israeli president. Separation of Church and State?

10-28-05 - Congress condemns Ahmadinejad A Senate bill condemning the comments, introduced Thursday by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and a similar House bill, introduced Friday by Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), passed unanimously.

10-27-05 - Republicans Cut Several Programs in Budget Americans suffer because much-needed funds are being diverted to the neocon's war machine.

10-27-05 - Danforth Criticizes Christian Sway in GOP Former Sen. John Danforth said Wednesday that the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the Republican Party and dividing the country.

10-27-05 - Congress salutes Israel on U.N. post . The House resolution, passed Thursday, also urges an end to the vilification of Israel at the United Nations and advocates Israel?s permanent membership in the Asian Group, which would accord it more rights More legislation for Israel.

10-27-05 - Keeping Israel front, center in the media He also criticized the Jewish media in America for not consulting with the Israeli government more often. ?Be on the same page with us. When you need information, call us. Consult us. Get the right Israeli position.?

10-27-05 - FBI Director Robert Mueller, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to Keynote ADL Meeting in New York FBI Director Robert Mueller and U.N. Ambassador John Bolton are scheduled to keynote the Anti-Defamation League's 2005 National Commission Meeting in New York City

10-24-05 - Evangelicals, Jews Are Kindred Spirits Dozens of evangelical Christians from the United States, Europe and Asia toured Jewish settlements in the West Bank in recent days, taking time out from their organized pilgrimage to the Holy Land to show their support for the Israeli settlers. This is a better read on this topic - A Strange Kind of Freedom with a caution on the adult language in the first few paragraphs of the article.

10-23-05 - Senate approves money for Arrow The Senate approved almost double President Bush?s requested funding for the Arrow, a joint U.S.-Israeli anti-missile program.

10-23-05 - UN report may demand Lebanon stop arms flow from Syria Isn't it odd how these things always come back to the Palestinians? What is our beef with Syria? Why has this become our problem? Who made it so?

10-22-05 - US forced Israel to freeze Venezuelan F-16 contract: ministry Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz is planning a visit to the Pentagon next month, a ministry spokeswoman confirmed, and is likely to focus on defence deals.

10-22-05 - U.S. official: Israeli, PA road map obligations not equally important The official, who requested to remain anonymous, said the Palestinian Authority's commitment to fight terror is more crucial than Israel's to freeze settlement construction and evacuate illegal settlement outposts

10-22-05 - US diplomat points to neocon ideology behind actions in Iraq A veteran US diplomat who served as a government adviser in Iraq says US policy in the country at the initial stage of the occupation was driven by neoconservative ideology rather than careful preparation and clear understanding of issues.

10-22-05 - Prejudices revived in US by Palestinian Christian group Thus does a new smear campaign begin.

10-21-05 - No decision to divest Christians, Jews and Muslims met at Central Presbyterian Church in Montclair on Sunday for an educational presentation on the past and present state of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

10-20-05 - Jewish Groups Watch for Changes At U.N. The Israeli mission and U.S. Jewish organizations hope the 30-year-old Palestinian-related committees will be shut down.

10-20-05 - Give Protestants Stake in Peace by Investing in Interfaith Efforts Wow, so they were given a glimpse of the 'chain link fence' and introduced to a few peaceniks, that's some balance that the Hasbara committee offered them. What a joke.

10-19-05 - Arrest warrant issued, bail set for Tom DeLay

10-19-05 - Christian leanings at the Jerusalem Post Its columnists spend a good deal of time insisting that there never was a country called Palestine, and therefore never should be, on the same comment page that each day states the paper is published by the Palestine Post Ltd.

10-19-05 - Congressional letter warns P.A. on Hamas

10-18-05 - Evangelicals call for investing in Israel A Christian evangelical group based in Jerusalem is planning to launch a drive to invest in Israel in response to mainline church calls to withdraw investments from large corporations with business ties to Israel See also the The role of the Christian Right

10-18-05 - DeLay politics may carry heavy price The same aggressiveness that has landed him in legal trouble has given him an impressive list of friends in high places. His former protégé Dennis Hastert is speaker of the House of Representatives. Many House members owe their elections to his financial help. Former DeLay aides occupy powerful posts in and outside government - which helps explain why DeLay is so defiant in the face of trouble

10-18-05 - Letter from CNI to President Bush What is being witnessed in the Middle East is not a struggle to create two states but a covert action by Israel to create a series of cantons for the Palestinians on the West Bank

10-18-05 - UN gets manners What better way to ingratiate himself with the Bush administration and a hostile Congress than to extend a gracious hand of friendship to Israel, whose supporters carry a lot of weight in U.S. politics You don't say?

10-18-05 - Are we going to war with Iran? The Sunday Telegraph warned last weekend that the UN had a last chance to avert war with Iran and, at a meeting in London last week, the US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, expressed his regret that any failure by the UN security council to deal with Iran would damage the security council's relevance, implying that the US would solve the problem on its own.....In what appeared to be coordinated releases of intelligence assessments, Israeli and US intelligence briefed earlier this year that, while Iran was years from a nuclear weapons capability, the technological point of no return was now imminent.

10-17-05 - From 2004: Have the Neocons Destroyed the Presidency? by Patrick J Buchanan In 1996, in a strategy paper crafted for Israel's Bibi Netanyahu, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser urged him to "focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power" as an "Israeli strategic objective." Perle, Feith, Wurmser were all on Bush's foreign policy team on 9-11

10-17-05 - Picking American Pockets for Israel

10-17-05 - DeLay Will Likely Be Booked This Week

10-17-05 - Ex-CIA officials criticize Israel, draw student protestors "It's difficult to see how Israel's policies of expanding, building walls and confiscating lands and orchards can lead to a settlement,"

10-17-05 - Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come

10-17-05 - Congresswoman has Jewish roots She is close to Miami?s Jewish community and, as chairwoman of the Middle East subcommittee of the House of Representatives? International Relations Committee, she has championed a number of measures favored by pro-Israel lobbyists, including the Syria Accountability Act.

10-17-05 - Christian Zionist group donate $40,000 to former Gaza settlers A group of Evangelical Christians from around the world have donated about $40,000 to Jewish settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip settlements.....The Associated Press reported that the Israeli government has supported and enforced ties with those groups especially with conservative American Christians, and evangelical groups have contributed millions of dollars to Israel.

10-16-05 - Rice enlists support for Syria, Iran showdowns Remember this ? : "Ambassador Daniel Ayalon said the U.S. invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein helped create great opportunities for Israel but it was "not enough." "It has to follow through. We still have great threats of that magnitude coming from Syria, coming from Iran," he told a conference of the pro-Israeli Anti-Defamation League. " Israeli Ambassador to US Calls for 'Regime Change' in Iran, Syria

10-16-05 - U.S. asks Israel to keep out of efforts to pressure Syria

10-16-05 - Hamas 'capable of U.S. attacks' Yehudit Barsky, director of the Middle East and International Terrorism Center at the American Jewish Committee said, "Hamas does have people in America who are Muslim Brotherhood-oriented who support Hamas and who could carry out attacks. ... This presence in the U.S. exists." Naturally, these are Zionist 'sources'.

10-16-05 - U.S. churches back off divestment It is also outdated because the Israelis have made "major concessions and a major step toward peace," The Israelis made 'major concessions toward' adjusting the demographic balance. Leaving Gaza was not about peace.

10-15-05 - Maryland Senator Reflects on Visit to Israel

10-15-05 - US troops clashed with Syrian soldiers along border A series of clashes in the last year between American and Syrian troops, including a prolonged firefight this summer that killed several Syrians, has raised the prospect that cross-border military operations may become a dangerous new front in the Iraq war.

10-15-05 - Washington offers Syrian president deal to end isolation

10-15-05 - Analysis / Assad is good for the Golan Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror.

10-15-05 - Israel receives 300 anti-terror dogs from US The initiative of donating 300 dogs to Israel was made by a Jewish Organization in the United States

10-14-05 - World may have to live with nuclear Iran -US study U.S. intelligence says Iran could produce a weapon in about a decade....To U.S. ally Israel, "a nuclear-armed Iran is a clear and present danger" and most Israeli strategists "do not question if Israel should seek to remove Iranian nuclear facilities," only how or when it should be done, the report said. However, the U.S. researchers warned that a U.S. or Israeli pre-emptive military strike likely would rally Iranians around a religious fundamentalist government in Tehran that they might otherwise want to replace, spur new attacks by Iran-allied groups like Hizbollah. Israel's intel says six months. Whom do you believe?

10-14-05 - Israel says Syria regime change in world's interest In the Perle-Feith-Wurmser strategy, Israel?s enemy remains Syria, but the road to Damascus runs through Baghdad. Their plan, which urged Israel to re-establish ?the principle of preemption,? has now been imposed by Perle, Feith, Wurmser & Co. on the United States. Whose war is this?

10-14-05 - Divestment campaign losing steam among U.S. churches

10-14-05 - U.S. to Deal 'Seriously' With Any Syrian Link to Hariri Killing

10-14-05 - FM: Syrians feel 'noose tightening' Israel is taking care not to become publicly involved in the probe of the Hariri assassination, although the UN did ask it to provide intelligence material. The security establishment and the government have been considering whether or not complications for Assad are necessarily good for Israel. U.S. pressure on Syria is good for Israel, some say

10-14-05 - Danny Ayalon, Spy? Ayalon warned the assembled wise men against the threat posed by Syria, all the while averring that Israel "is not in the business of regime change." Why should they be, when they have us to do it for them?

10-12-05 - A Defiant, Guilty Plea in AIPAC Case Admitting guilt to another charge, relaying information to Naor Gilon, the chief political officer at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Franklin said that he wasn't giving away anything that the Israeli didn't already know. "I knew in my heart that his government had this information," Franklin said. "He gave me far more information than I gave him."

10-12-05 - Senate introduces energy cooperation measure U.S. senators introduced legislation to create a strategic energy partnership between the United States and Israel....A similar measure was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year.

10-12-05 - Israeli envoy: Syria harboring terrorists Speaking Tuesday in Washington, Daniel Ayalon said Israel would like to see a change in Syrian behavior, but "is not in the business of regime change."

10-12-05 - Context Elusive in PBS's the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) is described as "Palestinian land" rather than "disputed land." Only Israel refers to the occupied Palestinian Territories as 'disputed land'. What CAMERA is suggesting is that this medium (like all others) adopt the Israeli-POV ONLY. What a shocker.

10-12-05 - U.S. keeps Israel out of new fighter-jet development program I the wake of the Israeli undertaking and Yaron's resignation, three U.S. Congressmen - Roy Blunt, Eric Cantor and Mark Steven Kirk - wrote to Rumsfeld last week and asked him to renew the activities of the three groups,

10-11-05 - From April : Glossing Over Israel's Human Rights Abuses The Janus Face of the Department of State

10-11-05 - With Indictment of AIPAC Honchos, Trial of Spy-for-Israel Franklin May Be Postponed The Franklin indictments already suggested that the government has a trove of information on the functioning of AIPAC, ?an organization that hates exposure,? noted the JTA. In fact, AIPAC keeps such a low profile that it is rarely mentioned in the Washington, DC media.

10-11-05 - Groups launch campus program A pro-Israel campus initiative launched a fellowship program

10-11-05 - Iowa Jews protest forum Jewish groups in Iowa are protesting a local conference that they say features virulently anti-Israel speakers.

10-11-05 - Big change at the UN for Israel

10-11-05 - Israeli ambassador to U.S.: Syria is sheltering 10 or 11 terror groups

10-11-05 - Christian prophetic voices face many battles a public campaign had been launched to silence the voices of Christians demanding justice, peace and security for Palestinians alongside Israelis.

10-10-05 - House commemorates Wiesenthal The State Department has changed its definition of anti-Semitism to include the 'demonization of Israel'.

10-09-05 - US Tax-Exempt Charitable Contributions to Israel Donations, Illegal Settlements and Terror Attacks against the US

10-08-05 - Rachel was bulldozed to death, but her words are a spur to action Meanwhile, we are still asking our government for a US-led investigation into Rachel's killing. The US state department is on record saying that the report of the Israeli military police does not reflect an investigation that was "thorough, credible and transparent", despite that being promised to President Bush by Ariel Sharon

10-07-05 - Bush: Fight terrorism to protect Israel America must fight terrorists because they could destroy Israel, President Bush said.

10-07-05 - Bolton: UNRWA might disappear Israeli and pro-Israel groups complain that UNRWA acts as an advocate for the Palestinians instead of simply administering relief. UNRWA says it advocates for a standard of living and not a national cause. Bolton is Israel's new ambassador to the UN.

10-07-05 - Israel denies 'spying against US'

10-07-05 - DeLay's Downfall Likely May Mar Pro-Israel Clout Jews on the left, who favor a stronger U.S. role in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking that may include new pressure on Israel, were delighted when DeLay gave up his leadership post until his legal difficulties are resolved. Pro-Israel forces that relied on the Texas Republican to forestall such pressure were worried.

10-07-05 - Committee praises Israel U.N. move The resolution, initiated by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and passed Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives? International Relations Committee, congratulates Israel?s ambassador to the United Nations More legislation for Israel.

10-06-05 - AIPAC's Shifting Message AIPAC is the leading and one of the most respected advocates on behalf of Israel in Washington AIPAC must register is a foreign agent.

10-06-05 - Wiretap At Heart Of AIPAC Case AIPAC employees sign an agreement that protects them from legal harm until all appeals are exhausted, according to a source close to the defense of Rosen and Weissman who has firsthand knowledge of the clause. Why is this necessary in the first place? Does AIPAC routinely knowingly engage in the violation of American laws?

10-06-05 - Egypt Shakes Its Finger; Lulavs to Suffer for It "We've got everybody on the case, and I told them to shake a leg," Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) said, pun intended. What happened to the separation of Church and State?

10-06-05 - Teacher Class on Mideast Stirs Doubt Armbruster, a volunteer with the Friends Committee?s Middle East Peace Education Program, said that the Quaker organization ?strives for a better understanding of both the Palestinian and Israeli viewpoints, but it tends to delve more deeply into Palestinian issues and the problems they face? ? especially in light of a widespread presumption that the Israeli side gets more favorable exposure, thanks to strong Jewish advocacy. Where is the ADL when there is PRO-ISRAELI bias in the classroom? Nowhere to be found.

10-06-05 - Middle East focus: Counter attack Chiefs of police from the US and other western countries have travelled with the Police Executive Research Forum for a week-long counter-terrorism course run by Israeli officers familiar with confronting Palestinian suicide bombers Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror

10-05-05 - AIPAC's Overt and Covert Ops

10-05-05 - Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty in Spy Case

10-05-05 - Pentagon employee pleads guilty of spying for Israel

10-05-05 - Evangelicals Get a Piece of the Promised Land "The Israeli government has a long relationship with American evangelicals," Clarkson told IPS. "They have been cultivated as a domestic pro-Israel political constituency, as well as a source of foreign exchange through the tourism industry, so offering some land sounds like an effort to deepen and expand those political and financial relationships."

10-05-05 - Franklin pleads guilty his relationship with Israeli embassy political officer Naor Gilon was to extract information, not to give it. Gilon "gave me far more information than I gave him," Franklin said.

10-04-05 - Mofaz: U.S. pressure on Syria could topple Assad regime In an interview to Israel Radio, Mofaz said that Syria's involvement in the assassination of former Lebanon president, Rafik Hariri, and its support of Iraqi insurgents operating from within its territory, will bring about U.S actions that may overthrow Bashar Assad's regime. Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror. Did those who planned and perpetrated this atrocity seek not only the elimination of the pro-Saudi and pro-American Hariri, but a U.S.-Syria confrontation that immediately followed? Baiting a Trap for Bush?

10-03-05 - US consults Israel over Syria regime change: report In the Perle-Feith-Wurmser strategy, Israel?s enemy remains Syria, but the road to Damascus runs through Baghdad. Their plan, which urged Israel to re-establish "the principle of preemption," has now been imposed by Perle, Feith, Wurmser & Co. on the United States. Whose war?

10-03-05 - Grand Jury Indicts DeLay on New Charge