08-19-06 - To Israel with love "Thank God we have AIPAC, the greatest supporter and friend we have in the whole world," says Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister The Israeli lobby endangers Americans, and this bothers the AIPACers not one iota. Americans are so 'pro-Israel' because the mainstream media in America fail to present the other side of the story - which gets airtime in Europe. And THAT'S the difference.

08-19-06 - Bush breaks rank to boost independent's bid Neocons and Israel-firsters love Joe Lieberman. Why not? He's one of them. What's in America's best interest never factors in with these types.

08-19-06 - Ad pitch for Israel aimed at Christians the pitch goes beyond mere sympathy. The scenes are interspersed with biblical passages that suggest a divine calling to help the cause. And here's the supreme irony - Israel leveled Lebanon - a nation that is 40 % Christian. THOSE Christians won't be getting squat from the Christian Right in this country.

08-18-06 - End the taboo on challenging Israel He gets points for even raising the issue, but the author is wrong: the US owes Israel nothing.

08-18-06 - View of common fears drives US-Israel policy "The president doesn't see any difference between American interests and Israeli interests with regard to the Middle East now," And that is the problem. For, our interests are NOT the same. And where they diverge, America's interests MUST come first. And secondly, America has been involved in Israel's war on the Arabs in the first place because of Israel's lobby in the US. The support this lobby garners has endangered America to the detriment of US citizens.

08-17-06 - In Austria, the war in Lebanon provided fodder for anti-Semites ?People are very critical of Israel,? said Markus Bernath, foreign politics editor of Der Standard, one of Austria?s biggest dailies. "They don?t understand why this huge-scale war started." This 'huge-scale war' was in the works for a year and was given the go ahead by Cheney months ago.

08-17-06 - Costa Rican decision on embassy leaves supporters of Israel angry In 1980, the United Nations passed Resolution 478, calling for the removal of all embassies in Jerusalem Why? Because it was a violation of international law. Supporters of Israel want nations to break the law and recognize Israel's unlawful annexation of Jerusalem.

08-17-06 - Representative reassures angry Jewish leaders Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told the leaders in a Maryland suburb last week that he still supported Israel despite his July 30 letter to the U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, arguing that a "continuation of the bombing campaign as it is being carried out is against the interests of Israel and the United States." This man's crime? He dared to consider the interests of the UNITED STATES, the country he was elected to represent.

08-17-06 - Lebanese Deaths, and Israeli War Crimes, Kept Off the Balance Sheet if we concentrated on the tally of war crimes, Israel would come out the undoubted winner in both Lebanon and Gaza.

08-16-06 - ADL: Campus Newspaper Editors In Israel To Gain Firsthand Experience Of The Region The mission first went to Poland, where the students visited the concentration camps Auschwitz and Majdanek and the areas once occupied by the Warsaw and Krakow ghettoes Immediately, the pro-Israeli camp plays the Holocaust card to gain the sympathy of these editors, much like they shepherd foreign nationals to the Israeli Holocaust museum as soon as they step off the plane.

08-16-06 - Israel, U.S.: Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah Israel and the United States expect Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah. How did Israel's problems become OUR problems, I wonder?

08-16-06 - AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon "AIPAC meets with every candidate running for Congress. These candidates receive in-depth briefings to help them completely understand the complexities of Israel's predicament and that of the Middle East as a whole. We even ask each candidate to author a 'position paper' on their views of the U.S.-Israel relationship--so it's clear where they stand on the subject."

08-15-06 - "Star Wars" agency helps Israel on rocket threat The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has begun working with Israel to help find ways to counter enemy rockets, a much shorter-range threat than the "Star Wars" mission to block ballistic missiles for which is it known, the head of the agency said on Tuesday.

08-15-06 - Politicking over Israel: Jewish state becomes fodder in congressional war "I think it's a good thing to have members of Congress outdo their colleagues by showing that their pro-Israel credentials are stronger than the next guy's," said William Daroff, vice president of public policy at United Jewish Communities and a former Republican activist. America's interests never figure in.

08-15-06 - Olmert's War, and the Next One by Patrick J. Buchanan With our War Party discredited by the failed policies it cheered on in Lebanon and Iraq, there will come a clamor that Bush must "go to the source" of all our difficulty ? Iran. Only thus can the War Party redeem itself for having pushed us and Israel into two unnecessary and ruinous wars. And the drumbeat for war on Iran has already begun....Bush is on notice from the neocons and War Party that have all but destroyed his presidency: Either you take down Iran, Mr. Bush, or you are a failed president. See my previous post about the next war: Iran.

08-15-06 - "The US and Israel Stand Alone" Former US president Jimmy Carter: "I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon."

08-14-06 - Jewish Greeks advocate for Israel Jewish fraternities and sororities are launching an Israel advocacy push on college campuses this fall. Thus do American universities continue to be Ziogandized.

08-14-06 - AIPAC judge won't broaden case From previous reporting, JTA has learned that the document was a draft of the Bush administration?s Iran strategy. It?s the only document that Weissman or his former boss, Steve Rosen, actively solicited, according to their August 2005 indictment.

08-14-06 - Israel, Defeated As usual, Seymour Hersh has the inside dope, and he depicts Israel's failed blitz as a dress rehearsal for the main event: an American confrontation with Iran. Once again, as in the run-up to American's war with Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney and his office were among the chief instigators.

08-14-06 - Donors say Lieberman will be well-funded The three-term Democrat will turn to donors to his previous Senate campaigns and his 2004 presidential bid. He?ll also get some money from Republican and independent donors, especially those who agree with Lieberman?s support of Israel and continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq. The day we abolish campaign financing will be one of the most momentous in American history. Our government was supposed to be by the PEOPLE for the PEOPLE, and NOT for WEALTHY individuals and special interest groups. The founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

08-14-06 - America's one-eyed view of war: Stars, stripes, and the Star of David It is not just the US media which tilts in a pro-Israeli direction. Congress, too, is remarkably unified in its support for the Israeli government, and politicians more generally understand that to criticise Israel is to risk jeopardising their future careers This is the second article in a major British publication in a week's time that discusses the pro-Israeli influence in America. Unfortunately, the people that need to know about it the most - Americans - don't.

08-14-06 - Updated post: Israel's attack on Lebanon was a dry run for America vs. Iran

08-14-06 - The De-Zionization of the American Mind - How to Deal with The Lobby

08-13-06 - US involved in planning Israel's operations in Lebanon "When they grabbed the soldiers in early July, that was then a pretext" for Israel's assault on Hezbollah, Hersh said Sunday on CNN television...."This White House will find a way to view what happened with the Israelis against Hezbollah as a victory, and they'll find a way to see it as a positive for any planning that is going towards Iran," he told CNN.

08-13-06 - Why Bush embraces Israel's hard line A recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found that 59 percent of respondents judged Israel's actions in the current conflict "justified." That's a stark contrast to opinion in Europe. In Britain, a Daily Telegraph poll found that only 17 percent of respondents agreed that Israeli attacks were "appropriate and proportional." In Germany, a similar survey found only 12 percent approval. And therein lies the reason why Americans 'support' Israel: our media does not portray any part of Israel's behavior in both Lebanon and Palestine in any truthful way. In Europe, you have an entirely different story - which is why I read mostly the British coverage of the events in the Middle East. Americans are being deceived - in a BIG way.

08-12-06 - The land of the free - but free speech is a rare commodity The demented, bullying tone of the websites is another symptom of the descent of public discourse in America and, frankly, one can easily see the attractions of self-censorship on the question of Middle East and Israel. Read David Horovitz for longer than five minutes and you begin to hear Senator Joseph McCarthy accusing someone of un-American activities.

08-12-06 - Analysis: Pact won't improve U.S. image "The U.S. reputation as an honest broker has been eroding under this administration for some time. This just crystallized what the Arabs thought," said Jonathan Clarke, a former British diplomat now at the Cato Institute. He said the Arabs had grown to believe "the U.S. and Israel had become one country." And here's who is responsible for THAT.

08-12-06 - AIPAC Points to Legion of Doom in Bekaa Valley Much of the material cited by AIPAC to back up the press release is of dubious veracity, and the information that links these terrorist groups to the Bekaa Valley region is years or even decades old (as is evident if one reads though the release) AIPAC is of course reaching for straws to downplay/deflect attention away from Israel's destruction in Lebanon.

08-12-06 - U.S. assures Israel it will not be forced to withdraw from Shaba A senior government source said that Israel would not be obligated to withdraw from Shaba Farms, even if Annan's investigation determines that they belong to Lebanon.

08-12-06 - Evangelicals quiet about war in Lebanon Haggard said Israeli embassy officials called him several times a day during the first two weeks of the conflict, asking for a public expression of support. He declined. These idiots are hypocrites. Israel has destroyed Lebanon - a country with a population that is 40 percent Christian.

08-12-06 - After beating Lieberman in primary, Lamont turns attention to November

08-11-06 - Olmert thanks Bush for U.N. resolution The eight-minute phone call with Bush at his ranch in Texas was initiated by Olmert, said Frederick Jones, spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House "Thanks for being our puppet, Georgie"

08-11-06 - AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails . The 1996 neoconservative "Clean Break" document outlines one group of Israel lobby operatives' coordinated plan with Benjamin Netanyahu to trade missile-defense contract pork for U.S. congressional support for moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

08-11-06 - Bush vs. Condi - The neocons versus America The mere suggestion of dealing with Tehran had the neocons in a lather well before the Israelis launched their campaign of destruction, and neocon "Dark Prince" Richard Perle struck back with an op-ed piece in the Washington Post that accused Condi of an "ignominious retreat" in the face of Iran's nuclear sword.

08-11-06 - Cutting through Israel's propaganda war in the US Notice that in the UK, television journalists don't automatically defer to Israeli government represenatives the way US news people do. Why is that?

08-11-06 - Pro-Israel pressure strong in US But that mood is not necessarily shared by all Americans. A recent poll in the New York Times suggested that a slight majority of Americans feel their government should not be unquestioning in its support for Israel's war against Hezbollah.

08-11-06 - From 2005: Senate Probes Bolton's Pro-Israel Efforts Late one evening, U.S. News reported, Bolton recalled the report, just as it was about to make its way to Powell's office, and allegedly replaced it with a new memo. That memo supposedly did not mention the assessment that Israel may have violated American laws. As a result, Powell never learned that some of his staffers disagreed with Bolton, officials told U.S. News. ....In Israel, Bolton reportedly met with officials of the Mossad intelligence agency without seeking "country clearance" from the State Department's Office Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.

08-11-06 - US mulling Israeli request for M-26 rockets with cluster munitions The senior official said there was discussion to block the sale because during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon civilians were killed with the weapon, but added that the rockets would likely be delivered and that Israel would be told to "be careful." They hate us for 'our freedom', I bet.

08-10-06 - McKinney loses again in Georgia, but this time she can?t blame Jews Before the June 18 primary, Jewish money accounted for some $20,000 of the $160,000 Johnson raised. The Jewish contribution for the runoff was about $100,000, about one-third of the new money Johnson raised. The author of this article claims that McKinney can't blame the 'Jews' for losing this election, but then goes on to describe all of the money Jews poured into the campaign of Johnson, McKinney's opponent. Since they funded McKinney's opposition, it is difficult to lend any weight to their claim that they did not influence this defeat. Why did they feel the need to in the first place (if McKinney was on her way out, as they allege), is the question that must be asked.

08-10-06 - Judge in AIPAC case allows trial to proceed, but sets tough standard

08-10-06 - Poll: Jews backed Lieberman Jews in Connecticut gave U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman more than 60 percent of their vote in his unsuccessful bid to gain the Democratic nomination. I thought Jewish groups were anti-war. So, if the reason that Lieberman has fallen out of favor with Democrats was because of his support for the Iraq war, what gives?

08-10-06 - AIPAC case judge denies dismissal

08-10-06 - Rice?s Hurdles on Middle East Begin at Home Mr. Welch represents the traditional State Department view that the United States should serve as a neutral broker in the Middle East. Mr. Abrams, a neoconservative with strong ties to Mr. Cheney, has pushed the administration to throw its support behind Israel. During Ms. Rice?s travels, he kept in direct contact with Mr. Cheney?s office....Several State Department officials have privately objected to the administration?s emphasis on Israel and have said that Washington is not talking to Syria to try to resolve the crisis.

08-10-06 - Conservative magazine: Bush, Rice at odds over Israeli war The disagreement between Mr. Bush and Ms. Rice is over the ramifications of U.S. support for Israel's continued offensive against Lebanon.

08-10-06 - Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionism Brog explains that CUFI has become a valuable ally of AIPAC, which helps them coordinate lobbying efforts. "They have a great research staff," he said. Brog has also earned the confidence of the Jewish Federation by making sure to elicit the cooperation of its local chapters before initiating a recruitment drive in the federation's area

08-10-06 - Why Do They Hate Us? The argument of the "freedom and values" crowd boils down to this: "The decades of U.S. supplying of advanced weaponry and foreign aid to the Israeli government, which is now being used to kill people in Lebanon, and the U.S. government's obeisance and submissiveness to the Israeli government, have had no adverse effect on how Arabs and Muslims feel about the United States. Their anger and hatred is caused by America's freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and rock and roll." Dah. They hate us for our freedom.. dahh..

08-10-06 - Israel's misguided strategies The United States, in turn, miscalculated Israel's abilities and the damage done to its own interests in the Middle East by blocking a quick cease-fire and allying its policies so closely to those of Israel. As the destruction of Lebanon continues unchecked, with America's support, even such friends of the United States and Israel as Jordan's King Abdullah are talking in terms of "victims of Israeli aggression." And the angry reaction among Iraq's Shiites will further imperil America's ever-deteriorating chances of success.

08-10-06 - 53 U.S. Generals & Admirals Speak Out For Israel We have traveled to Israel over the years with The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). We brought with us our decades of military experience and came away with the unswerving belief that the security of the State of Israel is a matter of great importance to U.S. policy in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. A strong Israel is an asset upon which American military planners and political leaders can rely. Israel shares our commitment to democracy, freedom, personal liberty and rule of law. The fact that JINSA got a hold on them explains a lot. But that paragraph is hilarious and yet tragically sad (for America) at the same time.

08-09-06 - Baruch Requires Students Read Book Some Are Labeling Anti-Semitic Mr. Hedges describes the actions of Israeli soldiers in a Palestinian refugee camp as follows: "I had seen children shot in other conflicts I had covered ? but I had never watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." That's the REAL reason these folks are labeling the book 'anti-Semitic'. They cannot have anyone reading that passage or what Hedges witnessed firsthand. You can read about it here from the Internet Archiver. And the NY Sun is a mouthpiece for Israel, in case you hadn't figured it out.

08-09-06 - But the "Israel Lobby" Doesn't Exist

08-09-06 - US neocons hoped Israel would attack Syria Read the bit by Daniel Levy of Haaretz. These folks would have Americans believe that it's the neocons that are pushing Israel to act and not Israel via the neocons pushing America to act. In his view, Israel is exonerated from all blame. What a crock of BS.

08-08-06 - The End of Illusions Israel submitted to the U.S. a list of requests for amendments to the resolution. When Israel agrees to forgo these amendments, it will, of course, be able to take credit for its flexibility and desire to compromise; Lebanon and Hezbollah, on the other hand, will be cast as villains, rejecting international peacemaking efforts.

08-08-06 - Condi's 'New Middle East' by Patrick J. Buchanan If neither U.S. party is willing to show any independence of Israel, if America will not address the root causes of Arab animosity, and if we will not even negotiate with our enemies, we should probably pack up and get out of the Middle East. Before we are thrown out.

08-08-06 - 9/11 Commission Chairmen Admit to Whitewash Some commissioners wanted to cover up the link between the 9/11 attack and U.S. support for Israel because this might imply that the United States should alter that policy and lessen its support for Israeli actions.

08-08-06 - For some evangelicals, Mideast war stirs hope Believing the Mideast conflict is a sign that Christ will return soon, some evangelical groups have cheered Israel's military actions. What better way for these raving fanatical morons to show their devotion to Israel than to move their and act as human shields for them?

08-08-06 - Suddenly, Washington sees that Iraq, Lebanon issues are linked More substantially, the policy-maker suggested the administration's policies of bolstering Iraq and pulling Arab moderates out of the fire were at risk because of Israel's policies, adding that the Israelis "won't like" aspects of the U.N. Security Council resolution the United States and France proposed this weekend as a way out of the conflict. I saw this one coming from a mile away - and I'm no military planner. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when you arm and back Israel's wanton destruction of Lebanon, it's a sure bet you'll piss off her neighbors. But that fact matters not to the Bush administration, evidently. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and our guys are trapped in the middle like sitting ducks. It's BS of the highest order. And it's exceptionally hard to believe that those in the Bush administration who saw fit to rush Israel bombs and jet fuel did not think of the consequences of these actions beforehand.

08-07-06 - US evangelist leads the millions seeking a battle with Islam Americans and their foreign policy are held hostage by religious fanatics.

08-07-06 - No political upside in criticizing Israel by Robert Novak Such critics of Israel inevitably are taken to task, sooner or later -- usually sooner

08-06-06 - Bush Backing Israel Despite Divisions "The crisis in the Middle East today has brought us to one of those rare moments that transcend party and ideological lines. There is no daylight at all between the government of Israel, the Bush administration, Congress and the American Jewish community," said William Daroff, director of the Washington office of United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish charitable federations. That's a "rare moment"? Hardly. It is official Congressional and White House policy to pander to Israel.

08-06-06 - 'Moment of opportunity': yes, but only if the US asks Israel the hard questions Who knows what new Hizbullah is rising from the dust, amid the survivors at Qana? ...All Israel and the US have gained from this brutal pounding, and the deaths of hundreds of innocents, is increasing enmity and further isolation from the Arab world. Indeed, in their tacit and lonely support for Israel's bombing of Lebanese ambulances, homes, roads, airports, and state infrastructure, US officials have done the Jewish state no favors.

08-06-06 - Robert Fisk: This draft shows who is running America's policy... Israel A close analysis of the American-French draft - the fingerprints of John Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, were almost smudging the paragraphs - showed just who is running Washington's Middle East policy: Israel.

08-06-06 - DeLay, Coulter, Kristol Defend Lieberman A Christian Zionist, a panderer to the extreme right, and a neocon all endorse Lieberman. Say, I wonder why?

08-05-06 - Military Matters: Hezbollah traps Israel In no previous Israeli-Arab war has the United States revealed itself so nakedly as a de facto political satellite of Israel.

08-04-06 - STANFORD IDEOLOGICAL WAR LEADS TO SUIT "Horowitz is -- if not a coordinated part -- part of a broader attack against people who speak out against Bush's Middle Eastern policies Horowitz is the Israel shill that runs the campus 'watchdog' Campus Watch - which monitors the Middle Eastern studies at US universities. Campus Watch goes on the attack if the studies are not pro-Israel enough to its liking.

08-04-06 - Book: Sept. 11 panel doubted officials Unidentified members believed that "listing U.S. support for Israel as a root cause of al-Qaida's opposition to the United States indicated that the United States should reassess that policy," which those commission members did not want. I wonder why someone would not want us to reassess our foreign policy with regard to Israel?

08-04-06 - Robert Fisk predicts another 9/11 Since America gave the green light to Israel in its wanton destruction of civilian life and infrastructure in Lebanon, Israel and its lobby here in the US have made Americans a party to the destruction of yet another Arab nation - to the detriment of Americans. It really is a matter of WHEN, not IF we will see another 911 on US soil, IMO.

08-04-06 - Jewish groups back Bolton as confirmation is back on agenda John Bolton's tough pro-Israel rhetoric at the United Nations during Israel's recent crisis has galvanized Jewish support for the once-embattled nominee - and may have helped secure his nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations....Jewish leaders have agreed to make clear to senators that they would like to see Bolton approved. John Bolton - bad for AMERICA, good for ISRAEL. The latter nation can have him.

08-04-06 - Lobbying for Armageddon

08-03-06 - GOP wants representative reprimanded Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) was asked on a Detroit TV station why he was among only eight lawmakers who voted against a resolution supporting Israel in its action against Hezbollah; 410 lawmakers voted in favor.

08-03-06 - Letter asks Bush to enforce Syria legislation The American Israel Public Affairs Committee praised the letter. "Damascus must be held accountable for its actions, and the United States has the necessary diplomatic and political tools to do just that," spokesman Josh Block said. AIPAC pleased with two of its top agents in Congress - Ros-Letinen and Engel.

08-03-06 - Senate urges 'cessation of hostilities' The resolution notes at length the suffering of Lebanese civilians during the fighting, after some senators had expressed concern that an earlier resolution supporting Israel did not adequately address the need to safeguard civilians on all sides. It's about time.

08-03-06 - Letter demands funding for nonprofits Wednesday?s letter cited last week's attack on the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle that killed one woman and injured five others, and critiqued the department's policy of reserving the funds, earmarked by Congress, only for "credible threats."

08-03-06 - U.S. providing Israel with intelligence? The NSA routinely provides Israel with some intelligence, but this is an expansion directed by Vice President Dick Cheney and Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser, and approved by President Bush, Salon said. A National Security Council official had no comment. We give them everything else - money, weapons, carte blanche via the UN veto - so why should this be a surprise? Hey, I wonder why Iraqi Shiites today would be marching and chanting 'Death to Israel' AND 'Death to AMERICA'?

08-02-06 - US soldier tells probe comrades killed Iraqi detainees International human rights watchdogs have criticised aggressive US tactics in Iraq, which are alleged to have caused needless civilian casualties, but the military refuses to publicly discuss its rules of engagement. Witness who trained our guys for combat in Iraq. So when Israel, in its defense of the atrocities they are committing in Lebanon, points to the US's actions in Iraq, know that our guys were trained by Israelis in the first place.

08-02-06 - 'If It Bleeds, It Leads' Approach Skews Media Coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict, Say a Panel of Experts on KRLA's Newsroom Confidential Panel of Israel-defenders bemoan the fact that Israel's atrocities in Lebanon are reaching American audiences and they can't propagandize enough to cover it up. Americans have a right to know what Israel is doing with their hard-earned tax money. That's TS if these folks don't like it.

08-02-06 - Chuck Hagel: Opposition Senator Hagel offered one of the sanest statements heard on the floor of the Senate in the whole debate over the Middle East crisis: "Our relationship with Israel is special and historic," the Nebraskan said. "But it need not and cannot be at the expense of our Arab and Muslim relationships. That is an irresponsible and dangerous false choice."

08-02-06 - Bush's Embrace of Israel Shows Gap With Father "There is a danger in a policy in which there is no daylight whatsoever between the government of Israel and the government of the United States," said Aaron David Miller, an Arab-Israeli negotiator for both Bush administrations, who has high praise for James A. Baker III, the first President Bush's secretary of state. "Bush One and James Baker would never have allowed that to happen." Put Bush Sr. and Baker back into the White House. We could turn this thing around right now.

08-01-06 - The Moral Culpability for Qana by Patrick J. Buchanan hen a few congressmen sought to moderate a pro-Israeli resolution by adding words urging "all sides to protect innocent life and infrastructure," GOP leader John Boehner ordered the words taken down. Why? Because, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, had prepared the resolution and wanted it passed the way they wrote it. Our Knesset complied. It sailed through the House 410-8.

07-31-06 - As efforts gain steam for cease-fire, Israel Lebanon differ on the details The United States tends to side with Israel; most of the international community sides with Lebanon. And here's why.

07-31-06 - The Return of the Neocons The Israeli blitz may not have succeeded in cleaning out Hezbollah from the southern precincts of Lebanon, but it will almost certainly accomplish the expulsion of the "realists" from the councils of state and put the neocons back in the saddle in Washington.

07-31-06 - A US leader in his second term should have the power to rein in Israel. But George Bush is no ordinary president By giving these weapons to Israel, the US government is, in effect, stating that all its military actions are being pursued in the cause of legitimate self-defence, American interests and world peace. The US also becomes morally complicit in Israel's murder of civilians. The diplomatic cover this provides is indispensable.Since 1972 the US has used its veto in the UN security council on 40 occasions to prevent the passage of resolutions that sought either to defend the rights of the Palestinians or to condemn the excesses of Israel's government.

07-31-06 - Senate panel puts off Bolton vote to September Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record) on Sunday said he doubts Democrats this time would be able to muster the 41 votes in the 100-member Senate needed to block the nomination. The New York Democrat also said he was reviewing his own position, after voting last year to block him, because Bolton has been a "staunch and very good defender of Israel" at the United Nations I'm sorry but, what about AMERICA?

07-31-06 - US arms flight diverted from Scotland after cabinet protest Two US cargo planes believed to be carrying bombs bound for Israel were kept from stopping over in Scotland because of protests in the British cabinet, the BBC said. Most countries do not unconditionally support Israel the way we do. Then again, most (with the exception of Canada and Australia) do not have such a powerful Israeli lobby.

07-30-06 - In Congress, concern over Lebanon threatens to overshadow terrorism bill The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which pushed both bills strongly, said the main thing now was passage of one or the other. Aren't you glad that AIPAC speaks for us hard-working taxpaying American citizens? Because that's who Congress bows down to. Not us.

07-29-06 - AIPAC's Hold AIPAC continues to enjoy deep bipartisan backing inside Congress even after two top AIPAC officials were indicted a year ago for allegedly accepting and passing on confidential national security secrets from a Defense Department analyst

07-29-06 - Antiwar Candidate Backs Israeli Strikes The anti-Iraq War challenger in Connecticut's upcoming Democratic primary has issued strong statements backing Israel's military operations in Lebanon, but his campaign boosters are being painted as anti-Israel by supporters of Senator Joseph Lieberman.

07-29-06 - Hagel Decries U.S. 'Crisis Diplomacy' in Mideast Hagel's views on the Middle East are not in keeping with those of many other members of Congress or the Bush administration Yeh. It looks like he is speaking up for American interests, not those of AIPAC.

07-28-06 - Congress to E.U.: List Hezbollah as terrorist The letter to Javier Solana, the top E.U. foreign official, was dated July 29 and initiated by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.).

07-28-06 - 100,000 Whiners for War Crimes

07-28-06 - Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers Israel?s Foreign Ministry must avoid direct involvement with the campaign but is in contact with international Jewish and evangelical Christian groups, distributing internet information packs. Propaganda alert, folks.

07-27-06 - Proposed resolutions note civilians The resolutions, all currently in committee, follow on frustration expressed last week by a number of lawmakers that a resolution supporting Israel failed to call on all sides to protect civilians.

07-27-06 - Lawmakers form pro-Israel caucus A bipartisan slate of lawmakers is forming a pro-Israel caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yes, I was just thinking minutes ago - we need another pro-Israel group in Congress. We really lack these kinds of things.

07-27-06 - Christian Right Steps Up Pro-Israel Lobbying That's great. I'm glad these folks LOVE Israel and want to bring on this Armageddon. But do they HAVE to take the REST OF US with them? Why not just MOVE TO ISRAEL and be done with it? End of story.

07-27-06 - Analysis: Bush foreign policy struggling Strong support in Congress for Israel is further complicating efforts to find common ground with allies. Here's why Congress 'support's Israel. And again.

07-27-06 - US blocks Security Council move to condemn Israeli attack on UN post The United States blocked the U.N. Security Council from issuing a statement that would have condemned Israel's bombing of a U.N. post on the Lebanon border, in which four military observers were killed.

07-27-06 - Security Council expresses shock at bombing The United States, Israel's closest ally, insisted on dropping any condemnation or allusion to the possibility that Israel deliberately targeted the U.N. post Tuesday in the town of Khiam near the Lebanese-Israeli border....Wang told reporters he remains frustrated at the difficult negotiations on such an important issue, and said this would definitely affect "working relations" in the council on other issues, including Iran. While he named no names, it was clear that Wang's frustration was aimed at the United States. Read that quote again.

07-27-06 - America - an Orwellian Nightmare Our politicians fall all over themselves to please a foreign nation. George Washington is rolling in his grave.

07-27-06 - Israel's Man at the UN The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) calls Bolton "one of Israel's truest friends in the world."....Bolton is a longtime member of the advisory board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, which has offices in Washington and Jerusalem....Senate staffers investigating Bolton found that Bolton prevented a State Department memo accusing Israel of violating U.S. arms-export laws from reaching the desk of then-Secretary of State Colin Powell....In December 2005 the Zionist Organization of America honored Bolton with its annual Defender of Israel Award. I fail to see just exactly what this man has done for AMERICA at the UN.

07-26-06 - Lebanon: Winners and Losers What an Orwellian nightmare America has turned out to be; Black is white, Up is down, Israel is a democracy deserving of our unconditional support. Our politicians fall all over themselves to please a foreign nation. George Washington is rolling in his grave. Is this what he fought for? Is this the America that those ragtag 'rebels' envisioned? Hardly. If that is so, then they never would have fought at all. America was supposed to be INDEPENDENT. Clearly, it is not. How much more does one have to say or do to get this message through to the American public at large?

07-26-06 - Schumer and Clinton Pressed To Reappoint Bolton Senators Schumer and Clinton are facing increasing pressure from pro-Israel groups to renounce another Democratic filibuster in light of the escalating war in the Middle East. Pro-Israel groups LOVE John Bolton. He puts ISRAEL first, ALWAYS!

07-26-06 - Indulging folly The US alliance with Israel has been a fact of international life for decades, but seldom has Washington acted so blatantly in support of the country and with such disregard for the rest of the international community. Our unconditional support of Israel's actions is not in the best interests of THIS COUNTRY, America.

07-26-06 - Frustration as summit fails to end conflict A US state department official travelling with Ms Rice denied the US had been isolated, a view disputed by other sources at the conference It's what happens when you have a government that is under the influence.

07-26-06 - Congress Cautioned On Support of Israel The vast majority of folks in Congress are beholden to AIPAC or Israel. This is the definitive proof.

07-26-06 - Jewish voters dis Bush: Israel?s defender deserves better President Bush hasn?t just correctly filled out some American Israel Political Action Committee questionnaire. He?s put American lives where other politicians? mouths have been. What has he gotten in political returns? Bupkis.

07-26-06 - Ex-aide slams Britain over Lebanon Britain's moral authority over the crisis in the Middle East is being undermined by its close relationship with the US, a former top aide to Tony Blair has said. The work of our mighty Israel lobby here in the US is bringing others down with us, evidently.

07-26-06 - Israel lobby out in force to disparage Americans stranded in Lebanon

07-26-06 - On visit to U.S., Iraqi leader takes heat for Israel comments "The Israeli attacks and airstrikes are completely destroying Lebanon's infrastructure," Maliki said in remarks reported by the New York Times. "I condemn these aggressions and call on the Arab League foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo to take quick action to stop these aggressions. We call on the world to take quick stands to stop the Israeli aggression."

07-25-06 - Democratic Opponent of Clinton Criticizes Actions of Israel Jonathan Tasini, the antiwar candidate mounting a Democratic primary challenge against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, said this week that Israel had "committed many acts of brutality and violations of human rights and torture."

07-25-06 - Republican Jews urge Bolton confirmation "Ambassador Bolton has expressed President Bush?s unwavering support of Israel in a time of crisis," Naturally. Before you know it, whale feces will be discovered at the bottom of the ocean. Will wonders never cease?

07-25-06 - Letter calls for more Syria sanctions Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) want Bush to implement all the sanctions in the Syria Accountability Act, which they initiated and which Congress passed in 2003. Bush implemented partial sanctions two years ago. Ya didn't think we could go for a week without Israel's agents in Congress putting forth some more legislation on behalf of that nation?

07-25-06 - Oman says it won't boycott Israel The United States recently has made such agreements conditional on ending the boycott against Israel; similar language was included this year in the U.S.-Bahrain free trade agreement. A clause that has been built into any possible trade deals with Arab countries. Another sign that the United States is Israel-occupied territory.

07-25-06 - Madison's Warning and the Israel Lobby the real question of moment is not the red-herring of Israel's right to defend itself, but rather what possible U.S. national interest is at stake that requires America to put its security at risk on Israel's behalf.

07-25-06 - JINSA Strongly Supports Bolton Nomination Naturally, since JINSA is a neocon outfit.

07-25-06 - Democrats decry Maliki's comments on Israel U.S. congressional Democrats expressed alarm on Tuesday over Iraq's denunciation of Israel in the Middle East conflict, and some said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's address to Congress should be canceled unless he apologizes. Oh dear. It would seem that this government in Iraq may be up for another 'regime change' if they keep criticizing Israel like that. It's not allowed by the US. For, the 'democracy' that the neocons want to visit on the Middle East can best be defined as follows: the installation of Israel-friendly governments.

07-24-06 - Groups quiet on stem-cell research as Bush goes to the boards for Israel "The first concern of the Jewish community now is and should be Israel," said Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council.

07-24-06 - Senate committee approves anti-missile project A U.S. Senate committee approved $25 million for an American-Israeli project to develop a new missile system.

07-24-06 - Jewish lawmakers honor Israeli air force U.S. Jewish lawmakers honored the Israeli air force in the midst of its bombardment of Lebanon. HONOR THEM FOR WHAT?? THIS? That's one of the HUNDREDS of civilians Israel has killed by dropping bombs or shooting missiles at CIVILIANS. This is a disgrace.

07-24-06 - In Politicians' Pro-Israel Din, Arab Americans Go Unheard There is nothing groundbreaking about the outpouring of support. When Israel endured missile attacks from Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Congress unanimously passed resolutions of support. For years, Democrats and Republicans have burnished their pro-Israel credentials to court Jewish voters. About 6.2 million Americans are Jews, the Census Bureau says. How do the interests of the OTHER Americans fit into all of this? Who do our representatives represent?

07-24-06 - Illinois Delegation Visits Israel to Encourage U.S. Expansion by Israeli Homeland Security Companies The Israelization of America continues.

07-24-06 - Israel launches PR offensive to counter critics Israel launched a major public relations offensive to try to tell the world why it will not silence its guns in Lebanon despite international calls for a ceasefire and mounting concern about the plight of civilians. Good luck. Only those with a passionate attachment to Israel are going to condone Israel's wanton destruction in Lebanon. But their cohorts in the American media have made sure that Americans remain in the dark; par for the course.

07-24-06 - McCloskey bucks GOP, backs Democrat Since McCloskey has been critical of Israel in the past, one wonders how much money AIPAC has poured into Pombo's campaign.

07-23-06 - Danger! Legacy Ahead! There's a reason the Middle East is heating up In America, this is easy: the "mainstream" media, always attentive to the powerful Israel lobby, refrains from showing pictures that might upset the carefully nurtured image of the Jewish state as a heroic David up against an Arab-Muslim giant Buchanan was in there giving them hell, on behalf of the American national interest and on behalf of those innocent civilians that Israel is killing. We need more like him both in the media and on Capitol Hill.

07-23-06 - Saudis ask Bush to intervene in Mideast Bush's chief of staff, Josh Bolten, said before the meeting that the U.S. will stand firmly behind Israel, noting that an attack on an ally is considered an attack on the U.S. BS.

07-22-06 - A sweet deal for Israel Because of the perceived power of the Jewish lobby -- it has been called the National Rifle Association of U.S. foreign policy -- working Capitol Hill for Jewish organizations these days is, to quote one of their own lobbyists, 'like pushing at an open door.'

07-22-06 - War: Pat Buchanan vs. Neo Cons Fellow conservative David Horowitz's online magazine, Frontpagemag.com, has opened up a front against Buchanan, with an article that levels charges of anti-Semitism Horowitz, a rabid pro-Israel author and founder of the campus watchdog 'Campus Watch' is a part of the Israeli lobby here in America. And by smearing Buchanan as an 'anti-Semite' for daring to put the interests of this nation first, Horowitz, like so many others before him, has just proven these fine gentlemen right.

07-22-06 - U.S. speeds up bomb delivery to Israel: report The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the report cited American officials as saying. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others, the report said. Way to win the battle of the 'hearts and minds'!

07-22-06 - The Shame of Being an American The House of Representatives resolution, bought and paid for by AIPAC money, is the final nail in the coffin of American prestige in the Middle East.

07-21-06 - Pro-Israeli media 'watchdog' CAMERA goes on the rampage The 7-minute interview by NPR of Mearsheimer and Walt, the authors of the study "The Israel Lobby", has CAMERA's BVDs in a bunch. The interview was, according to CAMERA, an indulgence in "anti-Israel and anti-Jewish defamation". Findley is called rabidly anti-Israel, and they played the David Duke card at the end there. In short, the Israeli lobby proved Mearsheimer and Walt right ONCE MORE.

07-21-06 - Clinton, Dole urge MDA kudos Two U.S. senators introduced a resolution congratulating Israel?s emergency medical response service for gaining membership in the International Red Cross. We need legislation for THIS? Preposterous.

07-21-06 - Bush and Congress hardline support for Israel further isolates U.S.A. President George W. Bush's uncompromising support for Israel in its battle with Hezbollah, now backed by Congress, is threatening to isolate the United States even further from the rest of the world. It is also putting the administration at odds with governments in the Middle East that it is simultaneously trying to prop up and sowing increasing anger across the Arab world. So then, how exactly is it in AMERICA's best interest to give unconditional support to Israel after it has engaged in the destruction of civilian life and infrastructure? When is the AMERICAN NATIONAL INTEREST ever going to be considered by American politicians, talk show hosts, and the MSM?

07-21-06 - Saddam pins war on Bush, pro-Israel lobby Saddam Hussein said in a letter released Friday that President Bush and pro- Israel groups lied to Americans to justify the Iraq war, and he added that Iran "and its agents" helped facilitate the aggression.

07-20-06 - Speaker Hastert Sends Congressional Delegation to Middle East; Chairman Hoekstra to Lead Bipartisan Group While there, the group will meet with American, Israeli and Palestinian officials about the ongoing confrontations and discuss efforts to end the crisis and establish democracy and peace in the region.

07-20-06 - House overwhelmingly backs Israel in vote

07-20-06 - AIPAC was pressured to cut off embattled analysts, motion charges

07-19-06 - Speakers, Backers Portray Conflict In Mideast as Part of Terror War the Arab American Institute held an emergency meeting in Washington of 100 leaders from across the country and issued a statement calling for an immediate cease-fire. Three Democratic Michigan lawmakers -- Reps. John D. Dingell, John Conyers Jr. and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick -- held a news conference calling for the same.

07-19-06 - Robert Novak: U.S. cheering punishment of Hezbollah Sen. Chuck Hagel, second-ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is a voice in the wilderness suggesting U.S. policy is dangerously isolated by the Israeli alliance. .....few office seekers have dared criticize Israel. Another patriot? Be still my heart. What happened to Paul Findley gets a mention as well. What's this? "Hagel was one of the first public figures last week to propose sending a prestigious former Republican secretary of state - either James A. Baker III or Colin Powell - to the Middle East as a Presidential envoy". Baker was my choice as well.

07-19-06 - Evangelicals unite for Israel More than 3,400 evangelical Christians converged on Washington to urge stronger support for Israel. How much stronger could it get? Already the national interests of America get pushed to the background.

07-19-06 - Rice, U.N. to discuss cease-fire "Our view is that a cease-fire is not the first thing required," John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told JTA on Wednesday at a gathering of Jewish leaders in New York.

07-19-06 - Israel Lobby in Action Senator John Warner, the hawkish Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has been a lone voice in holding up legislation in the Senate viewed as unnecessarily slanted toward Israel. "Our support for Israel is very strong, Mr. President, but it cannot be unconditional," Warner said on the Senate floor yesterday. "I urge the Administration to think through very carefully how Israel's extraordinary reaction could affect our operations in Iraq and our joint diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue," he added in a statement. A patriot? In Congress? HOLY #@%$!!!

07-19-06 - Lieberman gets pro-Israel groups' support "Joe Lieberman, without exception, no conditions ... is the No. 1 pro-Israel advocate and leader in Congress," Well now that's really quite shocking. Next, someone will discover bear feces in the woods.

07-19-06 - Pelosi Floor Statement on House Resolution Reaffirming Support for Israel "And at this difficult time for the state of Israel, this resolution reaffirms our unwavering support and commitment to Israel" Our legislators are beholden to a foreign nation and thus force America to become a party to that nation's collective punishment of both the Palestinians and Lebanese.

07-19-06 - Israel's tight window for action With tacit support from the US, Israel has operated with a relatively free hand, leaving hundreds of Lebanese civilians dead How is this in the interests of America? Does this not jeopardize our efforts in Iraq? How can we claim on the one hand that we are helping one group of Arabs, and then on the other let Israel destroy civilian life and infrastructure of another group of Arabs?

07-19-06 - Troubles for the Israel Lobby

07-18-06 - Pro-Israel rallies to take place worldwide The World Zionist Organization is planning pro-Israel rallies around the world over the next week. These rallies will not justify or negate the wholesale destruction of Lebanese civilian infrastructure or the killing of civilians by Israel.

07-18-06 - Lawyers: Government pressured AIPAC AIPAC should be forced to register as an agent of a foreign government.

07-18-06 - Senate expresses support for Israel The U.S. Senate supported Israel's right to "take appropriate action to deter aggression by terrorist groups and their state sponsors." The non-binding resolution passed unanimously Tuesday night. Why is this 'support' for Israel via legislation necessary on CAPITOL HILL of the UNITED STATES if what Israel is doing is just and right? These resolutions are AIPAC's way of reasurring itself that OUR representatives are still beholden to it. These are the measures taken to see who gets voted in come next election, and who does not.

07-18-06 - US Congress readies resolutions supporting Israel Naturally. One wonders what took our AIPAC servants so long?

07-18-06 - RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Addresses the Christians United for Israel Dinner One nation that adopts our own Declaration of Independence's vision of unalienable rights from the Almighty, one nation where the people elect their leaders, one nation where women have the same rights as men, one nation where people of all faiths-Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or any other-have full and equal rights. This guy is off his rocker. Our own State Department knows how well Israel treats its Arab citizens; with discrimination.

07-17-06 - Thousands rally to support Israel Clinton condemned the "unwarranted, unprovoked attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah and their state sponsors" and called these groups "the new totalitarians of the 21st century." She added: "We will stand with Israel because Israel is standing for American values as well as Israeli ones."

07-17-06 - Republican candidates hit hard in 1st Congressional District race MacLean said Masullo's comments were preposterous and do not fairly represent the policy positions of church President John Thomas and other clergy who support Palestinian refugees and have spoken on other Mideast issues.

07-17-06 - ACLJ Calls on Americans to Stand with Israel in Its Fight against Terrorism This terrorism?

07-17-06 - Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2006 Congressional Candidates

07-16-06 - Will We Go to War for Israel? Listening to Newt Gingrich bloviate on Meet the Press, advocating U.S. intervention on Israel's behalf against Syria and Iran ? and the pathetic Joe "Me Too" Biden effectively agreeing with him ? one can only wonder how or why anybody listens to these crazies.

07-16-06 - American Jews mobilize for Israel Representatives of major Jewish organizations will meet with senior administration officials in Washington on Thursday to discuss the situation in the Middle East and to express support for Israel's actions in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. They evidently have no interest in what's best for the American people, and no interest in any of the 100+ civilians that Israel has killed in the last few days.

07-15-06 - Lieberman suspects Iran is behind Hezbollah actions Neocon.

07-15-06 - Children die in convoy attack as Israel widens Lebanon assault Israel steeply escalated its military campaign against Hizbollah in Lebanon yesterday with a series of air strikes that left more than 35 civilians dead, including a single strike on a convoy of families fleeing the fighting in a village near Tyre in the south of the country that killed more than 20 people, most of them children. Abominable.

07-15-06 - Attention Deficit Americans Are Being Misled to War Israel?s American agents, the neoconservatives, have made it clear for years that their goal is to eliminate every Middle Eastern government that is not ruled by an American puppet friendly to Israel.

07-15-06 - Bush demands Syria stop Hizbollah attacks President Bush demanded on Saturday that Syria rein in Hizbollah attacks on Israel but Russia's Vladimir Putin said Israel's military response should be "balanced." Bush is a puppet of the neocons. That's a shame, because his father did not appear to be. Israel's hold on this country has gotten far worse since then, seems.

07-15-06 - Jewish groups join coalition lobbying to legalize immigrants Jewish groups joined a broad, faith-based coalition lobbying Congress to allow undocumented immigrants legalization opportunities. Hypocrisy.

07-15-06 - UNRWA reform discussed, but calls to disband agency rejected JINSA has long advocated for folding UNRWA into the U.N. High Commission for Refugees. Shoshana Bryen, JINSA's director of special projects, opened the session by saying the continued existence of an agency uniquely dedicated to Palestinians dispersed by the 1948 war, and their descendants, perpetuates a myth that Israel's creation was a mistake. JINSA? The neocon outfit that pushed for the US to attack Iraq in the immediate aftermath of 911, is trying to get rid of UNRWA? Their Israel-first inclinations are bared for all to see.

07-14-06 - Israeli agents testifying in US need aliases Prosecutors asked a federal judge Friday to allow Israeli intelligence agents who testify at an upcoming terrorism financing trial to use aliases and take the stand without spectators seeing them. The Israelization of the US continues.

07-14-06 - Jewish leaders organize D.C. 'fly-in' Top U.S. Jewish leaders will meet with Israeli Embassy staff, senior Congressional leaders and Bush administration officials to discuss the crisis with Hezbollah.

07-14-06 - Israel rally Monday at U.N. Senators Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel will headline the noon rally across from the United Nations

07-14-06 - AIPAC trial delayed again The government and defense are still negotiating what evidence may be unclassified for trial use in the case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?s former foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst.

07-14-06 - Evangelicals to push for more support for Israel More? How much more can they possibly get that they aren't getting now?

07-13-06 - Jewish groups launch 'full-court press' to support Israelīs retaliatory strikes They were approached, he said, with an eye toward influencing members of key United Nations committees that "might be in a position to vote on matters of the Middle East."...Foxman said he had just approved another ad to run in an American paper, thanking Bush for his support.....AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, said it is focusing its efforts on Washington's halls of power. REad the article. It's the Israeli lobby in action. These folks prove the study right on a daily basis.

07-13-06 - Former CIA Officer Sues Cheney Over Leak

07-13-06 - US vetoes UN resolution urging end to Israeli attacks in Gaza John Bolton is as giddy as a schoolgirl in the photo that accompanies the article. He is beside himself with delight that he can prove his loyalty to Israel.

07-13-06 - AJC Welcomes U.S. Veto at UN Security Council The American Jewish Committee expressed its deep appreciation to the Bush Administration for the position taken by the United States at the United Nations Security Council today Naturally.

07-13-06 - US unwavering in support of Israel, raps Syria, Iran At the United Nations, the United States concentrated on stifling criticism of Israel -- vetoing a Security Council resolution calling for a halt to military operations against Hamas in Gaza -- sparked by the kidnap of an Israeli soldier on June 25. US ambassador John Bolton said the veto was a response to the "unbalanced" nature of the draft text which he argued laid a disproportionate amount of blame on Israel for the current crisis in the region Here is one reason why our government overwhelmingly supports Israel (to the detriment of American citizens), and the other.

07-13-06 - UN resolution on Israel 'inflammatory': US State Department "The US voted against the resolution before the Security Council because it is unbalanced and inflammatory," A sick joke. The people of the Middle East rightly look at our double standards with horror and disgust when we say we wish to bring them 'democracy' when we won't for one second condemn Israel's grave violations of international and humanitarian law. Here's why.

07-12-06 - Christians United For Israel to Hold First-Ever Washington Summit Historic Gathering of 3,000 Delegates to Urge Congress, Public to Strengthen Defense of Israel

07-12-06 - Pelosi and Hoyer Statement on Seizure of Israeli Soldiers All hail the stooges of AIPAC. New legislation forthcoming.

07-12-06 - U.S. rejects revised draft of UN resolution on Israeli offensive The draft resolution demanded that Israel "immediately cease its aggression" against Palestinian civilians, pull its forces out of Gaza and release the detained Palestinian officials. ....Bolton told reporters, "We still think it is unsatisfactory." The US gives the green light for Israeli terror.

07-11-06 - Flap over Santorum event forces groups to ponder election-year rules Also scheduled to appear are Daniel Pipes, who leads the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, and Shoshana Bryen of JINSA. They dismissed Forman?s concerns. The whole neocon gang.

07-11-06 - Jewish teens lobby in Washington The teens were scheduled to visit the White House and U.S. House of Representatives and Senate offices Tuesday to lobby on behalf of Israel

07-11-06 - White House replies to rabbis' letter The White House told a dovish pro-Israel group that it would not provide assistance to the Palestinian Authority while it is ruled by Hamas. AIPAC wins the day.

07-11-06 - UN impotence laid bare as Gaza suffers Mr Bolton's statement made clear that the US would not seriously attempt to rein in Israel John Bolton is ISRAEL's ambassador to the UN.

07-11-06 - Abduction highlights U.S.-Syria tension Israel has a problem with Syria, not the US. But as per usual, Israel's problems have somehow become OUR problems. Here's why.

07-10-06 - Israel calls for tough line on Iran Israel urged Western nations to deny Iran uranium-enrichment capabilities that could help produce nuclear weapons.

07-09-06 - When friends aren?t really friends: Be wary of evangelical support for Israel Finally, understand that Hagee's group is no "Christian AIPAC." His group is not pledged, as AIPAC is, to support all acts of the Israeli government. straight from the Rabbi's mouth.

07-09-06 - Not the same Christians: D.C. plenary to back Israel Thus fundamentalist/evangelical support for Israel is not a continuation of past persecution by other means but an expression of an entirely different view of the Jews. The upcoming conference is the practical application of this new, philo-Semitic theology. philosemitism = supremacy.

07-08-06 - Gaza on 'brink of health disaster' UN aid agencies say that Gaza is on the brink of a public health disaster and civilians were disproportionately paying the price in Israel's military offensive.....The agencies said they were "alarmed by developments on the ground, which have seen innocent civilians, including children, killed, brought increased misery to hundreds of thousands of people and which will wreak far-reaching harm on Palestinian society." Israel deliberately targeted the civilian infrastructure paragraph 3. And don't forget that our government is in total support of Israel's actions.

07-07-06 - Mearsheimer-Walt: The Paper That Won't Die

07-07-06 - U.S. silence about Israeli raid: A sign of friendship or weakness? The U.S. response has been to call on both sides to show restraint ? and to make clear that, in U.S. eyes, the party failing to do so is the Palestinians. ...Daniel Fried, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told Zaman that Israel's incursions were conducted with a high regard for civilian life. Complete BS. This article goes on describing the kowtowing of American officials to Israel, but yet somehow this still is not to the author's liking. Somehow, it has become OUR job to secure the release of the soldier.

07-07-06 - Arab leaders may hold key to Gaza calm Stuart Tuttle, the spokesman of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. "We put the blame on the group that caused the raid and the kidnapping, and secondly, on the Hamas government for not taking on its responsibility to prevent terrorism, rather than helping precipitate these events." No mention by US officials about the slew of civilians killed by Israel in the weeks prior to this event.

07-07-06 - 24 killed as Israel steps up Gaza assault "I expect the United States to use their veto, but I hope this won't be necessary because a lot of countries, particularly the Europeans, have told us that they cannot accept the text of this resolution," Israel's representative to the UN, Dan Gillerman, told public radio. The US is being used as dupe and fall guy for the war crimes committed by Israel, as usual.

07-06-06 - Pro-Israel activists conduct lobbying mission Activists from the Zionist Organization of America lobbied legislators to take action against the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

07-06-06 - U.S. Jewish-Turkish meeting tense Representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, United Jewish Communities, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, B?nai B?rith International, Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee took part in the meeting.

07-06-06 - U.S. Seen Backing Israeli Moves To Topple Hamas Support for Israel's policies is not in AMERICA'S BEST INTERESTS. Our officials, despite this, continue to support these policies.

07-06-06 - NPR audio link: Researchers Say U.S. Policy Influenced by Israel "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" is a controversial paper written by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, professors at the University of Chicago and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. They talk to Steve Inskeep about their view of the influence Israel exerts on Washington. It's a view disputed by many. 'It's a view disputed by many' - disputed by, not surprisingly, the pro-Israelis. This is a great interview ( ~7 minute runtime) with these two professors. They lay it out for you pretty concisely. These brave men are the good guys.

07-06-06 - Dershowitz Contradicts Himself on the Power of the Israel Lobby

07-06-06 - Qatar resolution condemns Israel offensive The draft faced immediate opposition from the United States and France, which called it unbalanced in its criticism of Israel. France's ambassador said he would offer changes, but U.S. Ambassador John Bolton suggested that Washington opposed the resolution entirely. John Bolton gives the green light for Israel's war crimes in the Palestinian territories. How are AMERICA's interests being represented here?

07-06-06 - Q&A with John McCain If Iran somehow had a freely elected democratic candidate (who did not say they were against the state of Israel,) I would not be nearly alarmed as I am According to McCain, Iran is OUR PROBLEM because it threatens ISRAEL.

07-06-06 - Israel Fears High Price for US Strike on Iran As the Iranian nuclear standoff has taken its turns and twists, the initial Israeli calculation of either forcing an Iranian capitulation through U.S. political and economic pressure, or ? if worse came to worst ? by eliminating the program through clean and surgical military strikes, have all proven to be pipe-dreams, primarily due to the disastrous consequences of the Iraq war.

07-05-06 - Hillary May Be Presidential Material, After All - On Iraq and Israel, she's a perfect neocon The senator's comments seem as if they were taken word-for-word from an AIPAC position paper. They may well have been. In May 2005, Sen. Clinton spoke at an AIPAC conference where she praised the bonds between Israel and the United States

07-05-06 - Synagogues Speak Out Against Wiretapping, Torture Officials at the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and American Jewish Congress, on the other hand, have been silent on the wiretapping program and generally less confrontational when offering any critique of the administration on the torture issue.......In recent years, and especially since the September 11 attacks, the ADL, AJCommittee and AJCongress have increasingly focused their advocacy efforts on the defense of Israel When has this NOT been the case?

07-05-06 - D.C. Showdown Expected on Hamas Bill The House version was initiated, strongly supported and - according to congressional insiders - drafted by the by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

07-05-06 - Lieberman?s support for Iraq war creates dilemma for Jewish backers "If you consider yourself first and foremost part of the pro-Israel community, you will stick with Joe Lieberman," said Grossman, who also is a past president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The problem with this article is the fact that the reasons for the pro-Israeli turnabout in opinion on Iraq are not mentioned. Since the war on Iraq was not the 'cakewalk' as promised by neocons such as Wolfowitz, they purport to no longer support it. The fact is pro-Israeli groups were vociferously pushing the attack on Iraq during the months prior to it.

07-05-06 - U.S. thanks Turkey for hostage intervention "What Turkey did that was very helpful is to go to Damascus and to say to the Syrians they need to use all of their leverage to help this take place," Condoleezza Rice How is this our problem?

07-05-06 - Israel's path to self-destruction Americans better wakeup before its too late. Israel is headed off a cliff and taking America along for the ride.

07-05-06 - Rice says Hamas responsible for "root cause" of Israeli-Palestinian tension Rice does not mention the attacks on Palestinian civilians that were the sole reason for Hamas' subsequent abduction of the Israeli soldier. But that's what one could come to expect from a government that's under the influence of a foreign nation.

07-03-06 - Who Harasses the Christians? by Robert Novak The U.S. House of Representatives was pulled into this issue by Justus Reid Weiner, an Israeli lawyer with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (headed by prominent hard-liner Dore Gold). Weiner, who long has blamed Christian misfortunes on the Palestinian Authority, contacted Ari Stein, a staffer in McCaul's congressional office. Stein in turn brought in Crowley, a prominent Democrat, through his staffer, Gregg Shelowitz.

07-03-06 - A gift horse or a Trojan horse? Pro-Israel preacher goes a-lobbying "This organization is a sign of broad American support for the U.S.-Israel relationship," said Jennifer Cannata, a spokeswoman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby. ...."Let's understand, too, that the Israeli policy favored by CUFI and Pastor Hagee is rejected by people in Israel," Block said, referring to Hagee's opposition to withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. "Unlike AIPAC, it is not committed to supporting Israel's policies."

07-02-06 - U.S. warns Israel not to harm Abbas or Palestinian civilians Israel's "public diplomacy" efforts, aimed at getting the Western media to support the IDF operations have also borne fruit. The American newspapers The New York Times and The Washington Post have published editorials that placed responsibility for the crisis on Hamas. Our MSM cower before Israel. Disgusting.

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