Israeli influence in America
05-24-06 - Right-Wing Israel Lobby Seizes on Olmert Visit
05-24-06 - House Vote Harms Palestine, Israel, US
05-24-06 - Republican chairman to Israel The chairman of the Republican Party is slated to meet with top Israeli leaders.
Ken Mehlman is due to leave Wednesday evening for Israel, and will return on June 1.
05-24-06 - Olmert praises House of Representatives He also praised Congress for legislation known as the Iran Freedom and Support Act that would further isolate the Islamic republic.
05-24-06 - Olmert gets words not actions in US Prime Minister Olmert was given the (rarish) honour of addressing a joint session of the US Congress. He made a speech that seemed to press all the right buttons for his influential American audience.
05-24-06 - Palestinian delegation attacked by congressman Anthony Weiner is another agent of Israel on Capitol Hill.
05-24-06 - House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is probing corruption in Congress, See the other story about Hastert from today's news.
05-24-06 - Remarks of Speaker Hastert at Luncheon Honoring Israeli Prime Minister Another member of Congress panders to Israel.
05-24-06 - Pelosi: 'A Shining Moment of the 20th Century Was the Establishment of Israel' "And those dreams as you say are not enough. We have to work to make the future better and to continue with what Israel strives for" You mean, these values? Repulsive.
05-24-06 - Olmert tells US Congress world must confront Iranian threat
05-24-06 - Olmert says Israel will draw own borders In a policy shift on Tuesday, the White House gave unexpected backing to Israel's plan to unilaterally set its borders with the Palestinians should their new Hamas leaders refuse to disarm and renounce their call for Israel's destruction
05-23-06 - Jerusalem resolution in Congress A resolution commemorating 39 years of Jerusalem?s reunification has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
05-23-06 - Alleged AIPAC informant promoted The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case.
05-23-06 - Defying Bush, House backs limits on Palestinian aid This bill was put forward solely to benefit Israel by two of its agents on Capitol Hill - Lantos and Ros-Lehtinen.
05-23-06 - Members of the Tribe / Thriving in China In a controversial appearance at the recent American Jewish Committee centennial convention in Washington, author A.B. Yehoshua predicted that Diaspora Jews would move to China if it were to become a world power. Dr. Avrum Ehrlich, a professor at the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at the University of Shandong, says that this process is actually already under way It's no coincidence that China - the superpower of the 2020's - is the next place that pro-Israelis seek to take root.
America, being sapped by a war waged largely because of neocon/AIPAC urging - is on the precipice of being relegated to third world status. All of this is something that I predicted over three years ago. We're being used like a you know what, until the next sugar daddy pulls up.
05-23-06 - House Votes to Cut Aid to Palestinians "Today, Congress made it clear that Hamas' decision to continue its support for terrorism has direct and immediate consequences," AIPAC said after the vote. How is this move in the best interests of America? Why is AIPAC, a foreign lobby, allowed to so influence our Congress that it actually puts America in DANGER?
05-22-06 - House wants to block aid to Palestinian government The House bill, introduced by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., and Tom Lantos, D-Calif., has 295 sponsors from both parties and has been vigorously supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobby. All three are agents of a foreign government occupying the US Congress.
05-22-06 - Effort to reconcile AIPAC, congresswoman Harper stands by the charge. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), a strong friend of AIPAC, defended McCollum, saying the alleged attack reminded him of the Taliban.
05-22-06 - Congressman: UNRWA amendment planned A U.S. congressman plans to introduce an amendment that would condition U.S. funding of UNRWA on an independent audit.
05-22-06 - Bolton: U.N. council likely anti-Israel The newly formed U.N. Human Rights Council is likely to be stacked against Israel, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said.
That's because Israel is a major human rights offender, and no amount of bullying at the UN is going to change that fact.
05-22-06 - ElBaradei seen citing Iran security issue in US talks John Bolton, U.S. envoy to the United Nations, hinted on Monday that Iran risked regime change if it continued to ignore U.N. calls to "give up their pursuit" of doomsday weapons. If Iran reversed course, their "regime can stay in place and they can have a different relationship with the United States and the rest of the world," Bolton told a meeting of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization.
05-22-06 - Israel's UN ambassador slams Qatar, praises Bolton Israel's U.N. ambassador, in unusually blunt comments, criticized Russia, China and Qatar on Monday for disappointing the Jewish state in their role as U.N. Security Council members this year.
But Ambassador Dan Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped praise on U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, jokingly describing him at one point as a secret member of Israel's own team at the United Nations.
The joke is on America. For John Bolton primarily functions as ISRAEL'S ambassador to the UN. Look at his track record - it speaks for itself. Even the Israelis know this.
05-22-06 - Olmert to tackle withdrawal, Iran in Washington meetings this week Yediot Achronot reported that Olmert would ask Bush to "do away" with the Iranian threat during what remains of his term in office
05-22-06 - Israel junket courts the cool kids with party tour for foreign journalists "We met with one Palestinian this whole trip. They don't seem to have any voice in the media," McCormick said. "This is the most racist country I've ever seen."...The junket, of course, was not so much about these 10 reporters, but their influence on readers back home. They write for magazines like Urb, Bust, Flaunt, Seventeen and MTV's Urge Web site.....Midway through the trip, it seemed some of the journalists already had become advocates for Israel - particularly the Jewish reporters.
05-21-06 - Ohio county buys $5 million in Israel Bonds Jim Rokakis, the treasurer of the Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, said the purchase was not political, but made sound financial sense Right.
05-21-06 - Israel lobbyists go to Washington In meetings with some 400 representatives, lobbyists focused on issues including support of the Iran Freedom and Support Act, alternative energy research and the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act.
05-21-06 - UNRWA amendment withdrawn Israel does not want UNRWA touched for now, as it is possibly the most stable element in the Palestinian areas.
05-21-06 - West urged to halt Iran The West has less than a year to block Iran's ambition to develop nuclear weapons before it touches off "hyper-proliferation" throughout the Middle East, says Israel's military intelligence chief. That's not what our intelligence says. Who will this administration believe (this time)?
05-21-06 - U.S. says no split with Europe on Iran Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on CNN's "Late Edition" he believed Tehran was already seriously engaged in uranium enrichment, placing it "months rather than years" away from achieving the technology to build a nuclear bomb. That's not what our intelligence says. Who will this administration believe (this time)?
05-20-06 - A LETTER TO AIPAC AIPAC should not have a lower standard for persons affiliated and representing its organization when they label a Member of Congress who thinks for herself and always puts the interest of our nation and people first a supporter of terrorists. My God! This Congresswoman dared to put the interests of the American citizens first. Traitor!
05-20-06 - Israeli Plan Divides U.S. Conservatives In the United States, the realignment is widely opposed by conservative Jewish voters whom Bush has courted with strong support for Israeli security. Conservative Christian leaders, including television evangelist Pat Robertson, who back Bush have endorsed the expansion and defense of Jewish settlements. The question that should be at the fore to these 'American' Congressmen and Senators is: WHAT POLICY IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF AMERICA? That is the heart of the problem; our legislators would appear to be servile to a FOREIGN nation.
05-19-06 - U.S.: Saudis not boycotting Israel The United States sought and received assurances from Saudi Arabia that it?s not observing the Arab boycott of Israel.
Oh thank God. I can sleep better at night knowing that this matter of American national security has been addressed. Mmm k.
05-19-06 - Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter.
05-19-06 - US fumes as Iraq backs Israel boycott The US-backed Iraqi government sent an official representative to this week's meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office in Damascus, The Jerusalem Post has learned, prompting criticism from members of Congress Members of Congress? Who are they representing here - the America people or the Israeli government?
05-18-06 - Iranian nuke crisis to top agenda of Olmert-Bush meeting The prime minister is planning to describe the severity with which Israel views the Iranian nuclear threat, and explain that the country is not leading an international struggle against Iran,said the report. However, Israel expected the United States and other countries to do everything they can to halt the threat,
05-18-06 - EU weighs security pledge for Iran, US resists One EU diplomat said the United States had promised Israel it would never give Iran a security guarantee before it recognised the Jewish state's right to exist and ended all support for anti-Israeli militants.
05-18-06 - In initial meeting, Olmert and Bush to look at the big picture, not details Beyond cash, the Americans could offer Olmert support for his redrawn borders - a recognition of Israeli sovereignty over some settlements that would go beyond the vague "realities on the ground" that Bush cited in his April 14, 2004, letter to Olmert's predecessor, Ariel Sharon.
05-17-06 - Casey to oppose Santorum Santorum maintains some Jewish support because of his consistent pro-Israel record.
05-17-06 - McCain: 'Proudly Pro-Israel' - Says Haaretz Article Left 'Serious Misimpressions' The McCain that both supporters and opponents have come to know, said the consultant, is the McCain who in June 2001 told a special AIPAC seminar that "America?s unequivocal support for Israel ? not evenhandedness, not moral equivalence, not winking at Palestinian violence ? is the best guarantor of peace in the Middle East." McCain reaffirms the fact that he is willing to forgo American national security in order to gain the AIPAC vote. It's a joke to see these types still touting Israel as the 'only democracy in the Middle East'. Total BS. That's a slap in the face to the families of the US soldiers that have died in Iraq.
05-17-06 - Appointment of monitor adds teeth to the fight against anti-Semitism Rickman, who will be sworn in Monday, will not simply monitor anti-Semitism; he will inject the issue into every bilateral or multilateral arrangement where it's applicable. Given that Arabs are Semites too, will this type of anti-Semitism be getting reported on? Or how about this? Highly doubtful.
05-17-06 - Olmert wants Bush pullback support, though his own government is balking Aides say Olmert will seek agreement on the following general principles in his Washington talks: .......An American commitment to mobilize international support for any unilateral Israeli moves; * American readiness to negotiate with Israel over where its permanent borders should run, and to recognize them if agreement is reached.
05-16-06 - Overseas pro-Israel students revel in American attitudes at forum "Having senators, congressmen and the president- all these really significant and important leaders of your country - backing Israel and talking about how important it is for Israel to be secure was amazing," They have the Israeli lobby to thank for that.
05-16-06 - Azeris to open Israel Embassy ?shortly? Yevda Abramov told Baku Today that the issue was raised last month when Azeri President Ilham Aliyev visited Washington and met with Jewish leaders. And here's why.
05-16-06 - Rice names anti-Semitism adviser The US is now the anti-Semitism police for the world. And only anti-Semitism? What about anti-Christianity?
05-15-06 - Jewish Alliance appeals for negotiations The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace sent a representative to Monday?s meeting between Stephen Hadley and Jewish leaders to present a letter from supporters calling for negotiations between Israel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a relative moderate.
05-15-06 - Hadley: We oppose paying P.A. payroll Stephen Hadley, President Bush?s national security adviser, met Monday with about 30 Jewish leaders from an array of organizations to discuss next week?s visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hadley is a neocon.
05-14-06 - On eve of Olmert visit, mixed signals on Palestinian aid confuse Congress Top members of Congress, administration officials and senior diplomats are sorting through conflicting signals from Israel and its supporters as they attempt to formulate a policy on how to assist Palestinians while isolating their leaders. In other words, our Congress is taking orders from Israel.
05-14-06 - Livni endorses bills on P.A. In a Cabinet meeting Sunday, Tzipi Livni "emphasized the importance of the bipartisan efforts in both houses of Congress to increase restrictions on aid to the Hamas government while keeping the option of continued humanitarian assistance,"
05-14-06 - Olmert aides to Washington The prime minister is expected to push for U.S. recognition of, and financing for, Olmert's "convergence plan," under which Israel would withdraw from parts of the West Bank and annex others
05-14-06 - AIPAC case defense cites treaty the attorneys told the court last week that the Legal Cooperation Treaty signed between Israel and the US in the late 1990s, to help with criminal investigations in both countries, can be used to take depositions from the three diplomats, who are all in Israel.
05-14-06 - Don?t let the Academic Bill of Rights become law The person behind the Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) is David Horowitz, founder of the California-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Horowitz is not surprisingly an Israel-supporter.
05-13-06 - Vilsack to arrive in Israel Sunday The six-day tour of the region, including Jerusalem, was arranged and paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, a group affiliated with the politically powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
05-13-06 - Jewish newspaper begins Christian edition in Israel with support from Evangelicals The relationship between Jews and evangelicals has grown stronger in recent years, since the latest Palestinian uprising. For example, in April 2002, President Bush called on Israel to withdraw its tanks from Palestinian towns on the West Bank. The Rev. Jerry Falwell protested to the White House, followed by 100,000 e-mails from Christian conservatives. Israel did not move its tanks, and Bush did not ask again
05-12-06 - Israeli envoy supports bills Israel's ambassador to Washington expressed support for congressional bills targeting the Palestinian Authority Naturally, since this legislation was introduced on behalf of Israel via its agents in the US Congress.
05-12-06 - Lawmaker cites AIPAC case critiques Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) cited the opinion articles, by Nat Hentoff of the Washington Times and David Wise of the Los Angeles Times, to underscore his criticism of what he said was the Bush administration?s effort to censor journalists BS. This is the puppeteering by the Israeli lobby at work here, nothing more.
05-12-06 - Groups to Bush: Drop Iran-Israel Linkage Messages were passed to the White House through several channels, Jewish activists said. And it seems to have worked: Speaking before the annual conference of the American Jewish Committee in Washington last week ? his most recent address before a Jewish audience ? President Bush talked about America's commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and about his administration's commitment to Israeli security, but he did not link the two, as he has several times in recent months.
But there's no Israeli lobby here that can successfully dictate to the President of the United States the contents of his speech. It's all just one big conspiracy theory. Read the bit about Iran.
05-12-06 - E.U. Aid Plan Sets Stage for Clash Washington seems poised to allow the E.U. to chart its own course on the issue. But Ayalon insisted that Jerusalem would oppose any international plan to cover salaries.
05-12-06 - On immigration, Jews seek out interfaith, interethnic partnerships ?If we want to be active partners with these organizations, we can?t look at issues of paramount importance to these communities and say we don?t see it as a Jewish issue, so we?re going to sit it out,? said Gideon Aronoff, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. ?We?ve got to nurture our common agendas ? then we can get them to engage in our other issues, like Israel.? Supporting illegals so they'll support Israel. How nice.
05-12-06 - House To Pass Legislation To Close PLO Missions in New York and Washington The House of Representatives will pass legislation ordering the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's missions in New York and Washington next week, Congressional sources say. More legislation for Israel by our AIPAC-beholden Congress. Whose interests are being represented here? Ours? Hardly. Moves like this actually damage America's standing in a region where we are already disliked, to say the least. Karen Hughes should resign. For, it's actions such as this that render her job utterly impossible.
05-11-06 - Group seeks funds for anti-Semitism education Efforts to combat hate crimes and anti-Semitism in Europe are in dire need of funding, experts told a Congressional committee. ...The Helsinki Commission, a bipartisan body monitoring human rights, recommends funding for such program to Congressional appropriators.
I have an idea - LET EUROPE PAY. Why is this a matter for the US Congress???
05-11-06 - O.U. lauds senators for synagogue security funding Civil liberties groups lobbied against the funds, saying they violated church-state separation.
05-10-06 - Palestinian funding bill clears committee The committee approved the bill in a voice vote Wednesday, toughening a provision that extends a ban on Palestinian offices in the United States to the U.N. mission in New York.
05-10-06 - IN WASHINGTON, IT FEELS LIKE EARLY 2003 ALL OVER AGAIN Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, who has extraordinary contacts across the Middle East and whose predictions are nearly always right, wrote last week that a high-level Israeli official told him at Israel's National Day reception that Israel would strike first, in the next "month or two or three."
05-10-06 - Lobbying on Iran, groups strive to play down the Jewish angle Careful to avoid giving the impression that it's primarily an issue of Jewish or Israeli concern, however, U.S. Jewish groups are taking pains to highlight the greater regional and global threats posed by a nuclear Iran and its Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...."We have to mobilize public opinion in this country and around the word to understand the serious threat that this represents," Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JTA....Jewish groups have vigorously lobbied American and international leaders, and have held meetings to educate members of the media. Well, it acts like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck....Oops, it looks like they forgot to tell Olmert.
05-10-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran PM set to visit Washington in two weeks for summit with President Bush; Olmert to point to link between Tehran nuclear threat, Hamas terror, demand Americans move against Iran
05-09-06 - Hasner leads effort for Florida?s support of Israel "Now is the time to affirm our solidarity with Israel," Hasner stated during debate on the floor of the House of Representatives, "It's a critical time in the Middle East and it's important for the state of Florida to show its solidarity with the lone Democracy in that region." Lone democracy in the region? I don't think so.
05-08-06 - Dovish groups oppose Hamas bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has lobbied strongly for the bill, and with 290 co-sponsors it is almost guaranteed to pass
05-07-06 - Chicago's mayor cancels visit to West Bank barrier Daley attributed the change to a scheduling conflict. But last-minute phone consultations between Israeli army officers accompanying the aborted visit suggested the mayor's aides wanted to avoid media images of the mayor against the backdrop of the contentious project....The cancellation of Daley's visit to the barrier sharpened questions about the planning of the mayor's visit to Israel, which was sponsored and organized by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
05-07-06 - Opening the debate on Israel If the U.S. news media were to become committed to a single standard of human rights, the shift would transform public discourse about basic Israeli policies - and jeopardize the U.S. government's support for them. It is against just such a single standard that the epithet of "anti-Semitism" is commonly wielded. From the viewpoint of Israel and its supporters, the ongoing threat of using the label helps to prevent U.S. media coverage from getting out of hand. Journalists understand critical words about Israel to be hazardous to their careers.
05-07-06 - Interview of President Bush by Sabine Christiansen of Ard German Television I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce [sic] its desire to destroy Israel. On the other hand, the elections did say to people in the Palestinian Territories, we're sick and tired of corruption. We want leaders who don't steal from us. We want leaders who help us educate our children and provide health for our citizens. Our president knows exactly why the Palestinians elected Hamas, yet does nothing in the face of the human catastrophe that is unfolding in the Palestinian Territories. That's the power of the Israeli lobby
05-06-06 - The uproar over the Israel lobby
05-05-06 - U.S. Congress to vote on bill outlawing Hamas funding A bipartisan effort headed by Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with the support of Democrat Tom Lantos, managed to raise the required 290 co-sponsors to bring the bill before Congress. Two Israel-firsters, what a coincidence?!!
05-05-06 - U.S. cool to French proposal of escrow account to Palestinians I cannot believe that my government is directly causing people to starve, and renal patients in hospitals to die. This is the AIPAC America, folks. The bullseye over America just got bigger, thanks to it.
05-05-06 - Albright: Lobby paper 'highly overstated' Appearing at a Council of Foreign Relations event in New York City earlier this week, Albright was asked about the paper written by two foreign policy academics, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University.
05-05-06 - The Israel Lobby At least two of the letters complain that we ?catalogue Israel?s moral flaws?, while paying little attention to the shortcomings of other states. We focused on Israeli behaviour, not because we have any animus towards Israel, but because the United States gives it such high levels of material and diplomatic support. An articulate and well-reasoned response by Mearsheimer and Walt to the criticism of their report on the Israeli lobby. It is a must read.
05-04-06 - London Bridge A sad attempt to smear the London Review of Books. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point in their insane attempts to discredit the Mearsheimer-Walt study of the Israeli lobby.
05-04-06 - Daley Visits Israel, But Not The West Bank
05-04-06 - Kean backs stem-cell research on an ?intimate? trip to Israel Kean came with a delegation of NJ Republican pro-Israel activists, including Short Hills publisher Steven Klinghoffer;......"Starting next year in the U.S. Senate, I will be very involved with issues that relate to Israel and the Mideast in a direct fashion,"
05-04-06 - Fight Against Campus Bias Gets Boost If you?re a Jewish college student, you no longer have to tolerate anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing on your campus. It's official - you can no longer criticize Israel on campus. The cry of anti-Semitism has been (ab)used to see to that.
05-04-06 - House preserves travel in lobbying amendment The Jewish community, led by the United Jewish Communities federation umbrella group, lobbied hard for the amendment, fearing it could affect education about Israel, Darfur and other areas.
05-04-06 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006 MR. BUCHANAN: The czar of American intelligence, Negroponte, says they're years away from this thing. They are hiding a lot of stuff and they've hid a lot of stuff. They are far, far away from this. But I'll tell you this, John. Your problem is our war party in this country, the Israelis, are pushing, pushing, pushing Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, who are all painted into a corner, and said they will n
ot be allowed to enrich at all.
05-04-06 - The country that wouldn't grow up It seems to me of no small significance that the recent essay on "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has aroused so much public interest and debate. Mearsheimer and Walt are prominent senior academics of impeccable conservative credentials. It is true that - by their own account - they could still not have published their damning indictment of the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy in a major U.S.-based journal (it appeared in the London Review of Books), but the point is that 10 years ago they would not - and probably could not - have published it at all.
05-03-06 - Bipartisan support for AJCommitee energy bid The AJCommitee leads the "Set America Free" coalition, which seeks to reduce dependence on foreign oil. More important is the need for America's independence of Israel.
05-03-06 - UNRWA bill introduced in House Congress will consider legislation to tie U.S. contributions to UNRWA to outside auditing of the agency.
05-03-06 - Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2006 Congressional Candidates
05-03-06 - Combating Anti-Semitism: OSCE Police Training Initiative and Holocaust Education Trips to Israel, prompted by pro-Israel groups, are a regular occurrence for US (as well as Canadian) law enforcement officials.
05-03-06 - Impatient Mossad warns of 'monster in the making' Mossad chief Meir Dagan, in Washington last week in preparation for a visit to the U.S. by Olmert on May 23, held secret meetings with U.S. officials to discuss Iran's nuclear program, reports the London Times.
05-03-06 - Israel Marks Independence Day with $1.7 Billion Budget Surplus Is it due to the fact that Israel is withholding millions of dollars in customs levies that it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, perhaps? Either way, Israel clearly does not need the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people. We certainly don't have a budget surplus.
05-03-06 - Update on the AIPAC Espionage Case After receiving numerous examples from IRmep of how Pincus' mistake was being propagated into other stories trivializing AIPAC lobbyistWeissman and Rosen's alleged criminal activities, yesterday the Post finally gave in and committed to a correction of the story.
05-03-06 - Democratic staffer, Jewish leader straddles two worlds in Washington "He shapes the whole philosophy of what they are going to do," said (veteran Republican Congressman Pete) Sessions, also a close friend of Kahn's who traveled to Israel in 1997 on one of four trips Kahn has co-chaired in the past.
05-02-06 - Republican chairman booed at AJCommittee event The room burst into applause, however, when AJCommittee board member Edith Everett asked Mehlman to "take a message" to President Bush to stop linking Israel and Iran. "It does not help Israel and it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran," If the shoe fits.
05-01-06 - After Bush, the Green Line Every time an Arab leader wants to
provide a distraction, (McCain) argues that the problem is due to Israel, and also
in the matter of Iran, "we would not have been so concerned" over its
nuclear program had it not threatened Israel with extinction
05-01-06 - Congress considering Olmert address Top congressional leaders are considering a plan to have Ehud Olmert address both houses.
Will the real president of the United States please stand up..
04-28-06 - Steppingstone to War : House passes 'Iran Freedom Support Act' Passage is a major goal of AIPAC, Israel's premier lobbying organization in the U.S., which for the past two years has featured the alleged Iranian threat to America as its convention theme: this year's conclave featured a multimedia exhibit supposedly dramatizing how Iran is "pursuing nuclear weapons and how it can be stopped." As Middle East expert Trita Parsi, of the John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, put it: "I don't see any other major groups behind this legislation that have had any impact on it."
04-28-06 - Ferment Over 'The Israel Lobby' Some measure of Walt's exposure is financial. Bernard Steinberg, director of Harvard's Hillel center, brought this issue up unprompted to me: "I talked to someone in Harvard development and asked what the fallout had been, and he said, 'It's been seismic.'" .....The authors have gotten support from hundreds of e-mails, three-quarters of which congratulate them, Mearsheimer says
An excellent piece and a good look into the making of the Israeli lobby study by Walt and Mearsheimer, and the aftermath, by The Nation. A must read.
04-28-06 - Deeper Than We Know Stewart, a relentless critic of the Iraq War, was left slack-jawed and speechless when the Israeli hero before him said that America largely "got it right" in Iraq...They are different beings, these two communities. One is a sovereign state of enormous vitality and strength. The other is a confident, influential minority within the world's greatest superpower
04-28-06 - House Backs Tighter Iran Sanctions The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Who else? Ros-Lehtinen, an Israel-firster, has proven herself time and again.
04-27-06 - Former chief of mission to Iraq citicizes Israel lobby
04-27-06 - Bill addresses Palestine If passed, one outcome of this bill would be the limitation of U.S. humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, including the potential cessation of entire aid projects.
04-27-06 - The United States of Israel? something surely has to give....
Across the United States, there is growing evidence that the Israeli and neo-conservative lobbies are acquiring ever greater power. The cancellation by a New York theatre company of My Name is Rachel Corrie - a play based on the writings of the young American girl crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 - has deeply shocked liberal Jewish Americans, not least because it was Jewish American complaints that got the performance pulled.
04-26-06 - US should call for direct talks with Iran Washington, closely backed (and sometimes urged, it appears) by Jerusalem - especially since the recent barrage of fanatically anti-Israel rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - professes to view Iran as a major threat and agrees with the Israeli view that it is an "existential threat" to the Jewish state.
04-26-06 - Pro-Israel "Nutjobs" on the Attack In the United States, we do not have full-throated, full-throttle debate about Israel. In Israel, they have it as a matter of course, but the truth is that the accusation of anti-Semitism is far too often raised in this country against anyone who criticizes the government of Israel.
04-25-06 - Another McCarthyite Smear Job: A Top Middle East Scholar, Juan Cole, is Falsely Accused of Being "ANTI-SEMITIC" to Stop Yale From Hiring Him Not surprisingly, Mr. Fund uses the McCarthyite tactic of guilt by association to fabricate his otherwise-nonexistent case against Juan Cole. For instance, he accuses Professor Cole of having blogged his support for a supposedly "anti-Semitic" Harvard study, "The Israel Lobby And U.S. Foreign Policy," by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
04-25-06 - U.S. accepts Turkey-Hamas meet The February meeting with the terrorist group, which won victory in Palestinian Authority legislative elections in January, angered Israel, and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confirmed this week that the Bush administration also sought explanations. If the move angered Israel, then why is my government seeking 'explanations'?
04-25-06 - Mossad head goes to Washington Israel's Channel 1 television reported Tuesday that Meir Dagan was in Washington for talks expected to include the prospect of curbing Iran's nuclear program.
04-25-06 - FBI's Israel Interests in Columnist's Files Detailed FBI agents last month sought the identities of pro-Israel reporters who had worked for columnist Jack Anderson or were close to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) when they asked to look through the late journalist's files, according to Mark Feldstein, director of the journalism program at George Washington University.
04-25-06 - Iran-Israel Linkage By Bush Seen As Threat President Bush is risking a backlash that could injure the Jewish community - and his own cause - by repeatedly citing Israel as his top rationale for possible U.S. military conflict with Iran, Jewish leaders and Middle East analysts warned this week. Nevermind the fact that the efforts and bellicosity of the Israeli lobby may yet cost America more blood and treasure in another Middle East war that they've pushed for, as long as these folks can get away with it (again), then it's AOK.
04-25-06 - Touching the third rail U.S. interests have gradually merged, a perception carefully nurtured by AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
04-25-06 - No, It's Not Anti-Semitic An abridged version of the Mearsheimer-Walt paper was published by the London Review of Books and is available online at http://www.lrb.co.uk/ . Read it and decide for yourself whether it is anti-Semitic
04-25-06 - The Prophecy of Oded Yinon: Is the US Waging Israel's Wars? A year later and the US government is no longer portraying Iran's purported nuclear ambitions as a threat to Israel, but a threat to the United States. In this way the case against Iran and the possible repercussions emanating from that, can be sold to the American people. Suddenly Israel's concerns have become theirs. A very interesting article.
04-25-06 - Let the AIPAC Spy Trial Begin The mainstream U.S. press and certain Middle East think tanks spend a great amount of time scouring the branches of government for recruits willing to release highly sensitive classified information of high interest that ultimately finds its way to Israel.
04-24-06 - Rice subpoena allowed in AIPAC case as judge pushes trial date to August The trial date, originally scheduled to begin April 25, has now been set for Aug. 7, even as the judge in the case continues to suggest the case might not go to trial at all.
04-24-06 - Two Trials And a treasonous trio While the AIPAC case revolves around a future war ? intelligence about Iran ? and the Libby case is focused on intelligence leading up to our invasion of Iraq, they are both legal fronts in the same fight.
04-24-06 - All War-All The Time The Israel lobby appears to be the only major organized force that is actively pushing the United States toward crisis in Iran. Along with the lobby's leading member, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), there's the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which has taken out full-page ads in major US newspapers with the less-than-subtle heading: "A Nuclear Iran Threatens All", depicting radiating circles on an Iran-centered map to show where its missiles could strike
04-24-06 - AIPAC judge approves Rice subpoena Judge Ellis turned down a defense request to order the deposition of three Israeli diplomats identified in the indictment, saying he lacked the authority to do so.
04-23-06 - Is The Israel Lobby Effective?
04-23-06 - US-Israel counter-terror plan proposed Israel advocates are behind new legislation that would create an office within the Department of Homeland Security for counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and its allies. Israel is one of a handful of countries named in the legislation that US officials believe could provide technological assistance. The effort comes as numerous states and municipalities, as well as law enforcement agencies, are sending representatives to Israel to pick the brains of counterterrorism leaders. The Israelization of the United States is nearing completion. No surprise to see that AIPAC is behind this legislation. Why the United States is targeted by terrorists in the first place should be the number one thing that gets addressed and redressed. Instead, our governnment only treats the symptoms.
04-22-06 - FBI is accused of 'trickery' in spy case Using the signed form, the FBI agents then approached Mark Feldstein, director of the journalism program at George Washington University, for help in accessing the documents, saying they had the family's permission to see them. He balked.
04-22-06 - Spokesman Denies Rice Leaked Defense Info
04-22-06 - America must take action against Iran: Israeli official Do you think that the United States has really reached a point where it is ready to operate militarily in Iran? "Public opinion is ready and Congress supports it. I assume that the administration does, too."
04-21-06 - BMD Focus: Israel's Next ABM Shield the U.S.-Israeli consortia participating in the SRBMD tender want their systems to be eligible for U.S. government funding for the proposed project, Globes said. The U.S. Congress has already approved $133 million for the Arrow program in the coming fiscal year, including $10 million for defense against short-range missiles. Bringing in Alliant into the SRBDM project could ensure that a large congressional bloc will support budget appropriations for short-range missile defense, provided that IAI and Boeing win the tender," Globes said. Meanwhile, America's borders continue to remain open and veritably undefended.
04-21-06 - The Power Player Who Faces Charges for Talking His indictment has marred the reputation of AIPAC, which employed him for 23 years. The hard-charging Rosen was instrumental in building AIPAC into one of Washington's most effective pressure groups. The 100,000-member organization plays a major role in securing more than $2 billion a year in U.S. aid for Israel and in fostering other pro-Israel policies...At AIPAC, Rosen helped pioneer executive-branch lobbying, a style of advocacy that was not widespread when he began it in the mid-1980s, but is now a routine complement to the more traditional lobbying of Congress. Before Rosen, AIPAC had believed that the way to alter American foreign policy was to get senators to sign a letter But these days, to say that these pro-Israel lobbyists alter foreign policy is the talk of 'anti-Semites'.
04-21-06 - National Intelligence Director Negroponte and Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Address ADL Meeting in Washington ADL leaders from across the country will gather for briefings from key government leaders, policymakers, ambassadors and opinion-molders during the annual ADL National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. Among the issues on the agenda are extremists and immigration, Israel update, the Hamas question, democracy in the Muslim world, crisis in Darfur, extremism in cyberspace, and policy updates from inside the Beltway...."From Podcasts to Blogs: The Dangerous New Domains of Cyberhate" THe internet, blogs, are very dangerous to pro-Israeli organizations like the ADL. For, they have little control over them and their coverage of Israel's behavior in the Occupied Territories.
04-21-06 - Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info "On day one, Secretary of State Rice tells him certain info and on day two one of the conspirators tells him the same thing or something less volatile."
It really just shows the degree to which our government has been compromised by a foreign nation.
04-21-06 - Flashback Dec. 2003: Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq "It is bonkers, insane. Here we are - we're already being compared to Sharon in the Arab world, and we've just confirmed it by bringing in the Israelis and setting up assassination teams." "They are being trained by Israelis in Fort Bragg," a well-informed intelligence source in Washington said. I wonder how the Iraqis feel about that little nugget of information. We arm and back Israel in its war against the Palestinians. And then we allow Israelis to train our forces for when they invade Iraq.
04-20-06 - Mything the Point of "The Israel Lobby" Another angle of the study of the Israeli lobby.
04-20-06 - In Rare Move, 2nd AIPAC Dismissal Hearing Set In another unusual move, the government asked Ellis yesterday to hold a closed hearing on the case and supported it with a petition from Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty.
04-19-06 - A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy How are we to explain the fact that it is in Israel itself that the uncomfortable issues raised by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt have been most thoroughly aired? It was an Israeli columnist in the liberal daily Haaretz who described the American foreign policy advisers Richard Perle and Douglas Feith as "walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments ...and Israeli interests." It was Israel's impeccably conservative Jerusalem Post that described Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, as "devoutly pro-Israel." Are we to accuse Israelis, too, of "anti-Zionism"? The pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' CAMERA has already attacked this piece at The New York Times. It can't be all bad.
04-19-06 - Breaking the silence Arabs and Muslims like Americans and democracy just fine in principle. What they don't like is U.S. foreign policy. Their main grievance before 2003 was of U.S. complicity in the dispossession of the Palestinians. Now they have another major objection, the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- and they clearly see the two as related
04-18-06 - Colin Powell Disagrees With David Gergen's Claim That There is No Israel "Lobby"
04-18-06 - As Iran again rattles the sabers, Israel considers available options Ultimately, Israeli officials believe that only the threat or use of force will deter Iran. And though many doubt that the U.S. will take military action, others point out that Washington has not taken any option off the table...During a February visit to Washington, Kaplinsky reportedly discussed the Iranian situation with American defense officials. According to American media reports, subsequently denied in Israel, he pressed the United States to take military action "he pressed the United States to take military action"
04-17-06 - Antony Loewenstein: Don't let any lobby shut down debate Public debate on the subject is routinely curtailed by intimidation and slander initiated by the Zionist lobby. In a healthy democracy, Israel's policies should not be immune to criticism. However, this seems to be the status quo: Israel remains a blind spot of the US administration.
04-17-06 - American real estate tycoon buys J'lem Gate Hotel Willner is also a member of the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC.
04-17-06 - Israel may have to go it alone on Iran: right-wing leader Avigdor Lieberman said Iran's nuclear programme "represents an existential threat for Israel which will oblige us to take unilateral action if the international community does nothing to stop it". Not if they can get us to do it for them.
04-17-06 - Who is this Israel, and what's all this talk of an "Israel Lobby"?
04-14-06 - D.C. delegates travel on spring break Lieberman met in Jerusalem Tuesday with acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to discuss political and security issues in the Palestinian territories. He met Wednesday with U.S. Consul General Jake Walles and U.S. Security Coordinator Lt. Gen. Keith W. Dayton
04-14-06 - End of story: Israel triumphant Beyond these regional equations in the Middle East lies the inner core, the first circle, of the Bush administration's strategy toward Iran. It is, and has always been, securing Israel's regional dominance. Here any unfinished business is simply impermissible since it can have catastrophic effects on Israel's security
04-13-06 - McCarthyism: Standard Operating Procedure In fact, there was no "blog," but a column I wrote on MSNBC years ago. And while it's years old, it has never been refuted. No one has been able to find anyone I listed among the pundits who has taken the Palestinian side against the Israelis on absolutely anything
04-13-06 - The Lobby and the Bulldozer For several decades, to the present moment, Israel's treatment of Palestinian people has amounted to methodical and despicable violations of human rights. Yet criticism of those policies from anyone (including American Jews such as myself) routinely results in accusations of anti-Jewish bigotry.
04-13-06 - LRB Letters Re The Israel Lobby
04-13-06 - U.S. evangelical groups establish pro-Israel lobby About 400 Christian evangelical leaders met in Texas in February to establish the lobby. In addition to the Dallas-based Hagee, its leaders include evangelist George Morrison, Baptist minister Jerry Falwell, and former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer, president of the American Values Coalition, which claims to protect marriage, family and faith. All are well-known supporters of Israel.
04-13-06 - From the China Lobby to the Israel Lobby Whether an American citizen supports close ties with Israel depends on whether he or she perceives that to be in line with U.S. interests and/or values, not on whether he or she is pro- or anti-Semitic. I do not agree with the author's conclusion. Though once in a while US interests may prevail, President Bush has in the past attempted to 'rein in Israel' but was later cowed to silence by the Israeli lobby (evangelical Christian Right).
04-12-06 - Essay Stirs Debate About Influence of a Jewish Lobby They say that the United States was singled out by Al Qaeda in large part because of American support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and that a significant motivation for the invasion of Iraq was to improve Israel's security. A rather rational piece by the NY Times on the study of the Israeli lobby. It's about time.
04-12-06 - Olmert: Convergence to cost USD 10 billion Olmert said he plans to visit Washington in May to seek U.S. political and financial backing for his plan. My fellow Americans, look right in the mirror to see who will be footing the bill for an Israeli withdrawal from lands that it has unlawfully occupied and colonized in violation of international law for nearly 40 years. We pay for Israel's intransigence - and then we pay again, in more ways than one.
04-12-06 - Security experts: Iran to be bombed in 2007 If Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons, a military operation against it is inevitable and will take place in 2007, senior U.S. and Israeli specialists say, Israel?s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday Our foreign policy is crafted in Tel Aviv.
04-12-06 - Iran Showdown Tests Power of Israel Lobby Far more visibly than any other domestic constituency, the Israel Lobby, defined by Profs. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt, academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, as "the loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction," has pushed the government ? both Congress and the George W. Bush administration ? toward confrontation with Tehran...."This bill has been pushed almost entirely by AIPAC," noted Trita Parsi, a Middle East expert at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) here. "I don't see any other major groups behind this legislation that have had any impact on it."
04-12-06 - Israel wary of Iran's atomic progress "The United States has placed this issue at the top of its agenda. I do not recommend that we should be involved," Naturally. If they can get us to 'deal with Iran', why should they?
04-11-06 - U.S. officials looking to Israel for partnership and ideas against terror Israel advocates are behind new legislation that would create an office within the Department of Homeland Security for counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and its allies. Israel is one of a handful of countries named in the legislation that U.S. officials believe could provide technological assistance. Just don't read this if you have blood pressure problems, and are a true American patriot.
04-11-06 - Two steps forward for efforts to correct bias in Mideast studies The bill also grants the education secretary some discretion in examining whether Middle East Studies departments are producing well-rounded graduates for the U.S. diplomatic, intelligence and defense corps, as envisioned by the Title VI framers. THis move isn't to 'correct bias', it's to ENSURE bias - the same bias towards Israel that pro-Israeli lobbies make happen in the mainstream US media, the US Congress and in the White House. Also of note from the article : 'Perhaps as significant as the recommendations were the commission's findings, which discerned anti-Semitism in "anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda." ' Pro-Israeli groups have successfully conflated anti-Semitism with anti-Israelism. This is a recipe for a backlash. For, their increased calls for censorship only add fuel to the fire.
04-11-06 - Lobbyists' Prosecutors Pointing to Spy Case
04-11-06 - British Attorney General asked to act on men shot in Gaza The only mainstream news organization in the whole of America to date that has the wherewithal to cover the stories of the Brits - and other matters of import to the American people - I give you the Christian Science Monitor. Subscribe to this paper today, show your support!
04-10-06 - Yeshiva University Students Travel to Washington to Advocate for Israel Students met with professionals from The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday to learn about effective lobbying techniques and to receive the latest information about the issues. Each student had two appointments in Congressional Offices and a second meeting at AIPAC to debrief.
04-10-06 - US lawmaker hopes Hamas visit to Turkey will not hit ties "Hamas is a terrorist organisation ... There are no ifs and/or buts," Robert Wexler, Democrat from Florida, told reporters here after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.
04-10-06 - Israeli Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy President George W. Bush said a few days ago that, in connection with the supposed threat of Iran, his concern is to protect Israel. Critics ask why Israel should not protect itself. The same has been asked about Iraq. In this respect, the controversy over the Israeli lobby is potentially explosive. This is why denials, secrecy and efforts at intimidation are dangerous. David Levy is right when he says that Israel itself would be served "if the open and critical debate that takes place over here (in Israel) were exported over there," meaning the United States
04-10-06 - Smear and Fear ; That's how Israel's lobby operates As one commenter on Drezner's blog pointed out, Mearsheimer and Walt have never written on this subject, yet suddenly they're anti-Semites? It just doesn't make sense.
04-09-06 - Report: Israel pressuring U.S. over Iran attack The Washington Post wrote that despite estimations by American officials that Iran would need another decade before having the bomb, Israel believes that the critical breakthrough could take place within a number of months And just who is our government going to believe (this time)?
04-09-06 - "Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran" I don't think America can tolerate the idea of a leader of nation of 30 million people who can openly speak of the liquidation of another country That other country happens to be Israel. He is suggesting that we deal with threats to Israel, but also denying that this would be a war for Israel. Can't have it both ways.
04-09-06 - Harvard dean steps down after study is criticized
04-09-06 - Professors spark political firestorm with Israel essay In the lobby essay, Mearsheimer and Walt charged that "the creation of Israel entailed a moral crime against the Palestinian people."
04-09-06 - U.S. aid to Israel put in sharp focus To John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, heartfelt thanks are due. They are very eminent academics, from the University of Chicago and Harvard respectively, and the authors of a treatise titled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."
04-08-06 - Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America? The goal of using the Nazi analogy is to suppress any realistic debate about the pluses and minuses of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and to make sure any American raising questions about U.S. support for Israel is seen as siding with the "Islamofascists," the heirs of Nazism
04-07-06 - Bush: Palestinians voted against corruption "Guess what the election was based on? Corruption," Bush said Thursday in a foreign policy speech. He rejected the thesis that Hamas? landslide victory in P.A. legislative elections in January was an endorsement of its terrorism and opposition to Israel. And the irony of the year is the response to the Palestinian rejection of Fatah corruption by voting in Hamas - the EU and the US just today cut all aid to the Palestinians. There's that neocon 'democracy' rearing its ugly head again. 'You will elect Israel-friendly regimes or else!'
04-06-06 - Of Course There Is an Israel Lobby Neither the U.S. government nor media has ever protested?has never even mentioned?Israel's years-long multiple arrests and protracted detentions of American citizens, without charge or trial. In September 2000, CNN interviewed four Americans who had been tortured, the only report on this compelling story, and the network has since been forced to refuse selling recordings of that news segment, "Americans Mistreated in Israeli Jails." America would have been fully informed had any other country committed these acts.
04-06-06 - Israel Project picks 30 for media fellows The program teaches Jewish and non-Jewish students communications techniques to bolster Israel?s image in the press.
04-06-06 - House committee passes P.A. ban bill It also legislates that the removal of Hamas from the Palestinian Authority will not be enough to re-establish P.A. relations with the United States; no matter who runs it, the Palestinian Authority will have to prove it has eradicated terrorism and anti-Israel incitement.
04-06-06 - Evangelicals Rally Their Flocks Behind Israel
04-06-06 - Judge in Israel Lobbyists' Trial Told Evidence 'Overwhelming' "At trial in this case, the government will present overwhelming evidence of the defendants' specific, willful intent to violate" the Espionage Act, prosecutors wrote in papers filed last week with the federal judge overseeing the case, Thomas Ellis III of Alexandria,Va. "The government will prove - often using the defendants' own words - that Rosen and Weissman knew that they had obtained classified national defense information, knew it was unlawful to disclose that information, knew that the foreign officials and members of the media to whom they disclosed the information were not entitled, and yet, knowing all of these things, decided to disclose the information in any event."
04-06-06 - More debate over report on Israel's influence in US Coverage of the debate over the recent paper by professors Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago that examines the influence of Israel and its supporters in Washington over US foreign policy has been, mostly, absent from US media The Christian Science Monitor again takes the lead in reporting important issues when most other mainstream American media fall flat.
04-06-06 - Israel Lobby Exposes U.S. to Avoidable Hostility Overseas while Smearing Academic Critics as 'Anti-Semitic', Says IRmep Poll; Mearsheimer and Walt Study Accurate 91 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe it is "extremely accurate" to "accurate" that the Israel Lobby's tactics expose the United States to avoidable hostility in the Middle East...86 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe that the Israel Lobby places what it considers to be Israel's interests above the national interests of the United States.
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04-05-06 - Pro-Israel lobby dictates U.S. policy, study charges
04-05-06 - Following Hamas takeover of P.A., West and Israel cut off contact, funds Neither bill has reached the floor yet, but strong lobbying by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has garnered co-sponsorship from over half the Senate and almost half of the 435 members of the House of Representatives.
04-05-06 - House passes Saudi boycott plea The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the Bush administration to call on Saudi Arabia to end its boycott of Israel.
More legislation for Israel.
04-05-06 - An October Surprise? by Patrick J. Buchanan if Iran?s nuclear program is to be dismantled, the Americans will have to go it alone with Stealth and B-2 bomber strikes. Or Bush will have to answer to the Israeli Defense Ministry.
04-05-06 - Yes, It's Anti-Semitic Wow. The shreeks are getting more shrill as the study of the Israeli lobby gets more attention in the press. This piece seems to make use of at least 2, possibly more, of the techniques used by members of this lobby to silence criticism.
04-05-06 - Academics' Paper on 'Israel Lobby' Blasted Weeks later, the Associated Press finally covers the study of the Israeli lobby by the two professors but naturally makes heavy use of the David Duke card. This is the AP we are talking about here.
04-05-06 - Noam Chomsky and the Pro-Israel Lobby: Fourteen Erroneous Theses
04-04-06 - Silence in class Earlier this year, Fox news commentator Sean Hannity urged students to record "leftwing propaganda" by professors so he could broadcast it on his show. On the web there is Campus Watch, "monitoring Middle East studies on campus"; Campus witchhunts.
04-04-06 - PDF file: Defining the Role of Faculty in Supporting Israel on Campus Activists guide to pro-Israeli propagandizing at the universities. It's all a big conspiracy theory though.. nothing to see here..
04-04-06 - Anti-Israel bias at colleges scrutinized The recommendations grew out of a November hearing at which speakers cited examples of anti-Semitic incidents. One frequently cited involved a 2004 documentary that said Middle East Studies faculty at Columbia University were intimidating Jewish students who defended Israel. (A faculty committee investigated and found no evidence of anti-Semitism.) It was BS, just like the allegations by the USCCR. This matter is to ensure that universities toe the pro-Israeli line. IT will all backfire on the pro-Israel lobbies in the end. For matters such as this only serve to prove the opposition right.
04-04-06 - USCCR Combats Anti-Semitic Harassment on Campuses; Panel Issues Recommendations Directed to Campuses, Enforcement Entities, Others (3) federal grant-making institutions should exercise appropriate oversight over academic departments of Middle East Studies to ensure that federal funds are not used in a manner that supports discriminatory conduct See yesterday's news. This is to push that legislation through (A previously version failed) that would see to it that universities are pro-Israeli enough to the pro-Israeli lobbies, or else lose federal funding. Crying 'anti-Semitism!' really does work, Virginia.
04-03-06 - Bush sticks to neo-conservative course on Israel The group, which is headed by Clifford May, a former New York Times reporter and communications director for the Republican National Committee, originally evolved from another organization called Emet: An Educational Initiative Inc. It was created in early 2001 by a number of wealthy Jewish philanthropists, including Dalck Feith, the father of Pres. Bush?s former undersecretary of defense for policy, and Perle protégé Douglas Feith. Its purpose, according to a 2003 article in The American Conservative, was to bolster Israel?s image among U.S. university students and faculty in the face of the Palestinian intifada. After 9/11, Emet was transformed into FDD with Clifford May at its helm and a former Israeli Embassy official, Nir Boms, as its vice president.
04-03-06 - Senator condemns Hamas U.S. Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called on Hamas to renounce terrorism and acknowledge Israel?s right to exist
04-03-06 - Europe body pressed on invite to Palestinians Members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the Council of Europe asking it to rescind an invitation to Hamas members to attend a Parliamentary Assembly meeting.
04-03-06 - IJCR Applauds U.S. Civil Rights Commission for Defending Civil Rights of Jewish Students The pro-Israeli lobbies are still trying to get legislation passed by using different language. after their first attempt failed. This has nothing to do with anti-Semitism and everything to do with the lack of control by pro-Israeli groups over speech at campuses.
04-03-06 - Israel and Moral Blackmail Fear prevents debate ? and a real debate is what the Lobby can least afford.
04-02-06 - Pensioners conquer the Web Samhovitch says that at this stage, it is still too early to observe how successful the project is in giving Israel positive publicity on the Internet. See the last two paragraphs. Why is this propaganda campaign aimed at us Americans, ever wonder? See this for a possible motive. There's a major concerted effort on the part of pro-Israeli outfits to continue to heavily saturate the American people with propaganda. The Israeli colonial machine must keep its biggest benefactor.
04-02-06 - U.S. televangelist to launch Christian pro-Israel lobby Hagee said his group would be a Christian - and more powerful - version of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a large pro-Israel lobby, and would target senators and congressmen on Capitol Hill. A quarter of congressmen are evangelicals, and many American legislators represent regions that include a large evangelical population, he said. Since AIPAC is under heavy fire, the End Times Christian fundamentalists step in with their own version. They are part of the problem. Strangely, these two groups are fundamentally at odds on every other social issue. Do the research. And oddly enough, no other nation on the planet has such a contingency of Israel-first Christians in their midst.
04-02-06 - Most favored nation No one needed Mearsheimer and Walt to expose the work of lobbyists on behalf of Israel today. So far from hiding itself away in dark corners, AIPAC glories in its power and influence The newest spin of the report on the Israeli lobby: yes, the lobby is powerful, but it's not really 'good' for Israel and thus it's irrelevant. This next paragraph sums up my previous assertions well: "Supposing, then, for the purest sake of argument, that the war was fought in some manner to help Israel, did it do so? Ask an Israeli." - that Israel-supporters backed the war on Iraq and since it has not gone as well as the neocons had predicted, these Israel-supporters are now backpeddling from their pro-war stance with great fury. In fact, they have the unmitigated gall to complain about this in the Israeli press. That's a kick right in the ass to the American people. Add to that the fact that they have the audacity to complain that the United States isn't doing enough, isn't working fast enough to take care of their next great threat - Iran.
04-01-06 - Keeping It Quiet: The Israel Lobby's Crushing of Dissent So far as I've been able to determine with the help of Google, while the paper and talk about it are all over the Internet, they are missing from the big corporate press as of this writing Which is again, another point of the study itself - the acquiescence of the mainstream American media to the whims of the Israeli lobby.
04-01-06 - Editor hits back over Israel row ..'But when I re-read the piece, I did not see anything that I felt should not have been said. Maybe it is because I am Jewish, but I think I am very alert to anti-Semitism. And I do not think that criticising US foreign policy, or Israel's way of going about influencing it, is anti-Semitic. I just don't see it.' Accusing the LRB of anti-Semitism only proves one of the points of the study. The knee-jerk responses by members of the pro-Israeli community are like clockwork, they are that predictable.
03-31-06 - High Stakes at Harvard What would motivate two well recognized academics to depart so grossly from their usual standards of academic writing and research in order to produce a "study paper" that contributes so little to the existing literature while lending so much comfort to anti-Semites? Dershowitz, while playing the anti-Semite card (big surprise there), changes tack and focuses on going after Harvard next. All angles are being worked in the relentless onslaught of bilious vitriol by pro-Israelis in response to the study of the Israeli lobby. I don't think even they know where to fling the feces next. All they seem to know is that it must be flung.
03-31-06 - Global Divide on Israel Lobby Study In the international online media, the 83-page study, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard, has attracted largely positive coverage. By contrast, U.S. and Israeli commentators have described their findings as outrageous and scandalous. Which again proves one of the points of the study.
03-31-06 - America and Israel Judgment of the precise value of the Walt-Mearscheimer paper has been swept aside by a wave of condemnation. Their scholarship has been derided and their motives impugned, while Harvard has energetically disassociated itself from their views. Mr Walt's position as academic dean of the Kennedy School is in doubt.
03-31-06 - The Lobby Strikes Back The hate campaign directed at Mearsheimer and Walt underscores and validates the study's contention that all attempts to objectively discuss our Israel-centric foreign policy and the pivotal role played by the Lobby are met with outright intimidation.
03-31-06 - UN Security Council Resolution on Iran is a 'Good First Step', Says American Jewish Congress What is most likely is that, in the end, economic sanctions, stronger political pressure or perhaps even military action will be needed. Just remember this statement. For pro-Israeli groups have backpeddled away from their stance on the Iraq war since it has not gone as neocons had planned.
03-31-06 - 'Israel lobby' critique roils academe The significance of the paper, according to those who condemn it, as well as those who embrace it, lies in the Harvard and University of Chicago credentials of the authors and in the fact that it has been presented in a high-level academic forum, in a heavily footnoted style associated with accurate, objective scholarship. This article was almost an attempt at fairness by the Boston Globe with respect to its reporting on the matter of the study of the Israeli lobby. But then they felt the need to play the David Duke card.
03-30-06 - Hillel e-mail links GW law student to terrorism Sophomore Seth Weinstein said he provided the information contained in the original e-mail about Kiblawi. On Wednesday night, he was with Bob Turk, a U.S. director of the Jewish Defense League, who said "there's no way" Kiblawi can deny the accusations, because his organization "has the papers to prove them." They would not discuss where their information about Kiblawi came from, other than to say some of it was given to them by an unnamed employee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Since when does the Department of Homeland Security turn over documents to the JDL, an organization whose members have plotted acts of terrorism?
03-30-06 - Jews join letter against 'anti-terror' bill The petition presented this week to the act's principal sponsor, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), says the act "would punish and isolate the Palestinian people for exercising their right to vote."
03-30-06 - House considers university funding One directs the education secretary ?to take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutes of higher education advance national interests, generate and disseminate information, and foster debate on U.S. foreign policy from diverse perspectives.? This sounds like an earlier bill that was to ensure that federally-funded university curricula was sufficiently pro-Israel or the funding would be cut. Now it's been cloaked in more 'patriotic' language. Be warned.
03-30-06 - Senate's lobby reform: strong enough? However, proposals to ban congressional earmarks and privately funded travel failed to make it into the bill Here's why.
03-30-06 - US professors accused of being liars and bigots over essay on pro-Israeli lobby Prof Mearsheimer said the storm of protest proved one of its arguments - that the strength of the pro-Israel lobby stifled debate on US foreign policy. Indeed. When the ever-abused charge of 'anti-Semite!' is leveled, then you know you've hit on something.
03-30-06 - Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East Concerned about Report Authored by Two Prominent American Professors This organization is Christian Zionist in nature, not surprisingly.
03-30-06 - Exposé on Jewish role in US policy is disowned After a furious outcry from prominent American Jews, Harvard has removed its logo from the study and disowned any responsibility for the views put forward in the working paper, released two weeks ago....Yesterday it confirmed that Stephen Walt, the co-author of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, will be stepping down in June as academic dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government to become an ordinary professor. Which again proves some of the points of the study.
03-30-06 - Immigration Bill Draws Jewish Support As the Senate struggled this week to hammer out legislation on the contentious issue of immigration reform, Jewish groups were in boardrooms and on the streets advocating for the most liberal approaches to the issue. I ask again, do these folks advocate a similar immigration policy for the state of Israel? Highly doubtful. So why is it that it should be imposed on the American taxpayers?
03-30-06 - Paper on Israel lobby raises hackles, but fails to gain traction in Congress Off the record, Jewish officials here reverse that equation, saying their support for the Iraq war was necessary in order to curry favor with a White House that was hell-bent on war. In fact, the adventure unsettled many Israeli and Jewish officials because of concerns that the principal beneficiary would be Iran. Outright bullshit. These groups have only recently backpeddled from their stance on the Iraq war due to the fact that it isn't the 'cakewalk' that neocons such as Paul Wolfowitz asserted that it would be.
03-29-06 - A nation like ours The Boston Globe's resident Israel-apologist Jeff Jacoby's SECOND response to the report about the Israeli lobby by the two professors. Americans would NOT be so supportive of Israel if they knew the truth about Isreal's sordid history and grave human rights violations. That the American media is complicit in this is one of the POINTS OF THE STUDY.
03-29-06 - Crowley, Israeli Official Meet "I will continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to make sure the safety of Israel remains a top priority," Crowley said at the end of the meeting.
03-29-06 - AIPAC trial delayed Judge T.S. Ellis III did not explain his order Monday postponing the trial from April 25 to May 23.
03-29-06 - Kentucky lawmakers pressed on religion A letter signed by leaders of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville mentioned bills authorizing the posting of the Ten Commandments and the motto ?In God We Trust? at the state capitol How much time do they spend on Israel? I ask because some feel that to be anti-Israel is to be anti-Semitic. Conversely, one could make the same argument that our government spends the same amount of time if not more on legislation for the state of Israel. This legislation seemingly has no real beneficial effects for the majority of the citizens of America.
03-29-06 - United States Must Address Control of its Middle East Policies by Israeli Lobby by Paul Findley Former Ambassador George W. Ball said Congress behaves like trained poodles, jumping through hoops held by lobbyists for Israel. The lobby marshals great resources to defeat its critics and reward supporters. Senators Charles Percy and Adlai Stevenson and Representatives Paul "Pete" McCloskey, Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard and I are among those defeated at the polls by candidates heavily financed by pro-Israel forces. With hardly a murmur of protest, Congress recently approved resolutions saluting the prime minister of Israel for building high walls and fences that keep Palestinians penned up on their own land like cattle.
03-28-06 - Dershowitz pledges to defend Israeli generals Internationally renowned criminal lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, has pledged to defend
"in any court of law
" Israeli army officers threatened with legal proceedings when travelling outside their country, especially in the UK. Naturally.
03-28-06 - Storm intensifies over Israel Lobby paper ?What was once a non-partisan policy institute is now part of the pro-Israel chorus,? the professors wrote, taking aim at Brooking?s Saban Centre for Middle East Studies and in particular its main donor, Haim Saban, an Israeli-American businessman, and its director, Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel.
03-28-06 - Speakout: MEMRI's systematic distortions MEMRI claims to be an independent nonpartisan research institution. One of the co-founders of the organization, Yigal Carmon, is a retired Israeli military intelligence Colonel. Checking the MEMRI website, I found it served up blatant, unbalanced propaganda and was littered with inflammatory articles aimed to incite hate and bigotry toward any person whom MEMRI considers anti-Israeli or anti-Zionist.
03-28-06 - Dershowitz Calls For Unbiased Talk On Israel Question Dershowitz is hardly an individual that could give an unbiased talk about Israel.
03-28-06 - 'Israel Lobby' Study Attracts More Abuse The NY Sun is unrelenting in its crusade against the study of the Israeli Lobby by the college professors.
03-28-06 - Harvard Study Critical of Israel Lobby Unjustly Lambasted The article is neither ignorant nor anti-semitic. It is a review of previously published information and opinion that is familiar to all who have followed events in the Middle East. It presents a view of the US and Israel that people such as Alan Dershowitz and Ruth Wisse oppose, and for which they will go to great lengths to delegitimize, in the name of defending Israel and Jews, against unjust attacks
03-28-06 - Treasury move seen as key step in struggle against Hezbollah TV AIPAC lobbying led 51 U.S. senators to sign a letter last August urging President Bush to name al-Manar a specially designated terrorist entity. The American Jewish Committee joined with a coalition of moderate Muslim and Christian groups to press for the designation.
03-28-06 - At lively hearing in AIPAC case, judge hints he could dismiss case Ellis gave the sides until this Friday to submit additional arguments, but the smiles around the defense table suggested they had fared better than expected at the hearing.
03-27-06 - From 1997: Fulbright Called for U.S. Defense Pact With Israel But Was Labeled Anti-Semite This article from 1997 describes Senator Fulbright's version of the Harvard study of the Israeli lobby. Same s$#t, different decade.
03-27-06 - Academic Israeli path goes astray By Boston Herald editorial staff
This editorial from the Boston Globe follows closely the one by Jeff Jacoby in the same edition from yesterday's news.
03-26-06 - America takes side of Israel The Boston Globe's resident Israel-apologist, Jeff Jacoby, alleges that America's foreign policy is so pro-Israel because the American people are so pro-Israel. That may be true. But this still does not disprove the Harvard study about the Israeli lobby. For, if our media is pro-Israel (which the Harvard report alleges, as do many other organizations and this writer), then Americans will never have a chance to hear another side of the story, and thus could never be anything BUT pro-Israel - which is the point. Pro-Israeli media 'watchdogs' such as CAMERA, honestreporting.com and countless other pro-Israeli organizations see to it that you will never see the Palestinians as anything other than barbaric jihadis. I know that this is not the case. And I am not the only one. We are the only nation in the world that is so ardently pro-Israel. And we are also the only nation in the world whose pro-Israeli lobby is so powerful. Coincidence?
03-25-06 - The Israel Lobby Honestly, these things are fairly well known to Washington insiders and those who pay close attention. But the paper is significant exactly because what it says is quite true, and as a result of this it is difficult for respectable, objective sources to publish this kind of information. Because the influence of the lobby is not openly discussed the net effect is that there is a powerful and often hidden warping of both our foreign policy and news reporting.
03-25-06 - Crunch election will set seal on the new shape of Israel Ariel Sharon, pushed Israel towards unilateral disengagement. He said he would build on Hill E1 as a mark of his right-wing credentials - despite the fierce opposition of the United States - but in fact quietly did nothing....Two weeks ago, Israeli bulldozers broke ground for a new police station for 'North' Maale Adumim
03-25-06 - N.J. Dems Dump Arab-American Candidate Democrats pulled an Arab-American candidate from their election ticket on Saturday amid a furor over comments he made four years ago that some interpreted as sympathetic to Palestinian suicide bombers.
03-25-06 - Of Israel, Harvard and David Duke The Washington Post reports on the study of the Israeli lobby, albeit on page B05. Gives a fairly balanced report as well, save for the title. Evidently someone felt the need to play the David Duke card in an attempt to add negative connotations to this report before anyone even had a chance to read the article.
03-25-06 - In Dark Times, Blame the Jews Playing the anti-Semite card - again, this tactic is pointed out in the study of the Israeli lobby in its effectiveness as a tool to silence critics of this lobby and of Israel.
03-25-06 - Ethics reform stalling in Congress But GOP leaders are at odds over proposed limits on privately funded travel. See also Pro-Israel Activists Block Travel Reform
03-24-06 - Boehner says he won?t let anti-Israel laws through Boehner?s address Monday to 5,000 activists at the AIPAC conference in Washington was his first major foreign policy speech since his fellow Republican legislators elected him on Feb. 3. Boehner was elected after Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) stepped down in the wake of his indictment on charges related to campaign fund-raising.
03-24-06 - U.S. opposes depositions in AIPAC case Lawyers for Steven Rosen, the pro-Israel lobby?s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, asked the court in a motion to be considered Friday to allow three Israeli diplomats to be deposed in the case.
03-24-06 - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc
03-24-06 - Israeli media condemn, discuss report on US-Israel ties
03-24-06 - Mass. officials attend Israeli conference MacMillan and 130 other senior US security officials attending a counterterrorism conference in Jerusalem found themselves caught up in an unfolding manhunt for a suspected Palestinian suicide bomber.
An hour later, after a dramatic helicopter and motorcycle chase through police roadblocks on the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, Israeli police told the Americans that the would-be bomber had been captured, with 15 pounds of explosives packed with nails and shrapnel.
Aha. This explains a lot about the dramatic chase of those 'suspected bombers' this past week.
03-24-06 - Constitutional Questions Show in AIPAC Case Prosecutor Kevin DiGregory argued that the law regulates conduct, not speech, and therefore does not merit the same level of scrutiny. He also said that "the national security interests of the United States" require that the law be upheld.
03-24-06 - Rice presses case to get supplies into Palestinian territories Israel has virtually sealed off its frontier with the Palestinian territories, and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that the Gaza Strip faces a humanitarian disaster if more supplies are not delivered to the impoverished territory, where stocks of flour, wheat and sugar are low. The fear of ISRAEL has been put into her. That is, Israel's fear of being responsible for the people in the territory it occupies - which is required by international law.
03-24-06 - From 2002: Intractable Foes, Warring Narratives COLUMNISTS AND COMMENTATORS WHO CAN BE COUNTED UPON TO SUPPORT ISRAEL REFLEXIVELY AND WITHOUT QUALIFICATION:
03-24-06 - KSG Seeks Distance from Paper Yesterday?s issue of The New York Sun reported that an "observer" familiar with Harvard said that the University had received calls from "pro-Israel donors" concerned about the KSG paper. Everything that the pro-Israelis have said and done thus far in response to this study - have proven the ENTIRE PREMISE OF THE STUDY.
03-24-06 - Israel Lobby Paper Proving Itself True Media, pundits and bloggers will continue to make much ado of David Duke's support, which the pro-Israel Sun elicited in an interview, but not bother mentioning that a shorter version of this paper made it into the prestigious and highly intellectual London Review of Books. That is exactly the state of discourse the paper addresses.
03-24-06 - Harvard's Paper on Israel Drew From Neo-Nazi Sites And the smear campaign continues. Everything that the pro-Israelis have said and done thus far in response to this study - have proven the ENTIRE PREMISE OF THE STUDY.
03-24-06 - Israel Drops Bid To Curb Palestinian Refugee Body Sources said that Israel is in dire need of reliable international bodies to deliver increased humanitarian aid to the Palestinian population. Those sources cited Jerusalem's desire to maintain stability in the West Bank and Gaza and avoid being forced to assume responsibility for the welfare of the Palestinians if the U.N. agency were forced to leave...A State Department official confirmed that Israeli diplomats in fact discussed with UNRWA officials the possibility of extending the organization's mandate in order to serve the nonrefugee population in the West Bank and Gaza...Pro-Israel lobbyists appear to be following Jerusalem's lead, as support among Jewish groups for immediate congressional action against UNRWA has decreased. Oops, that well-orchestrated smear campaign of UNRWA by the Jewish Telegraph Agency from last week may have been in haste. Read on in the article about Kirk's legislation. Israel's unlawful occupation of the Palestinian Territories has created one of the biggest humanitarian disasters of our time.
03-24-06 - HOW ISRAEL CONTROLS WHAT YOU READ
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