Israeli influence in America


10-31-06 - Hoping to shed conflict image, Israel launches branding campaign What kind of image does the average American have of Israel? Suspicion confirmed. There IS a pro-Israeli PR campaign underway in America.

10-31-06 - Harris: I'm a Jewish wannabe A Washington Post profile published Tuesday described Israel as one of Harris' "greatest passions" and quoted her as saying she is a Jewish "wannabe."

10-31-06 - ANALYSIS-Israel's Olmert riding high despite Lebanon setback A senior Israeli official said that is likely to be the main focus of his November 13 talks with Bush. Israel has said it wants to take a back seat to international efforts to curb Iran's nuclear programme, which Tehran says is aimed at electricity generation. They and their cohorts in the US are pushing us into another war. And they will at some point in the future deny they pushed for it, like they are doing with regard to their support during the run-up to the Iraq war.

10-31-06 - Teacher:Speaker cancellation violates First Amendment The head of the teachers union has threatened a First Amendment lawsuit against the School Department because Andover High School cancelled a visit by pro-Palestinian speakers.....The Anti-Defamation League and Rabbi Robert Goldstein of Temple Emanuel in Andover both voiced their opposition to Andover High last week. Andrew Tarsay, the ADL's regional director, applauded the school's decision. But to suggest that the ADL and other pro-Israeli lobbies seek to silence any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Mmmm k.

10-31-06 - Radio host speaks on lies, misconceptions of Israel It would seem to me that there is a major PR effort underway in America by the Israeli lobby, given the amount of campus visits and other propagandizing of the members therein.

10-31-06 - Christian Zionists rally in San Antonio Twenty-five years later, Hagee, who now advocates a strike by the United States or Israel on Iran's nuclear installations, observed the silver anniversary of the Church of the Cornerstone's annual Night to Honor Israel, an event that was part of a three-day celebration Oct. 20-22 designed to show solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people and to advance the message that Israel and America are in danger.....Gabriel said Israel's enemies are America's, warned of Hamas cells in the United States -- "Hamas has the largest infrastructure on American soil" -- and declared, "Our enemy is in Islamic mosques throughout the U.S."...."I've never been in any placed that called itself a Christian setting where there was such hatred,"

10-31-06 - Ambassador Ayalon: Bush letter - historic During the interview Ayalon rejected the possibility of imposed pressure on Israel to accept a forced agreement under the Bush administration. According to him, the coordination between Washington and Israel will only get stronger due to the Iranian situation and international terrorism.

10-31-06 - Olmert to discuss Iran with Bush In the short term, two high-level Washington envoys - Elliott Abrams and David Welch - are scheduled to arrive in Israel Wednesday. They are also due to visit with Palestinians and then go on to Jordan.

10-31-06 - Texas Versus Tel Aviv: US Policy in the Middle East If it is true that the primary purpose of the Baker Commission is to take back US Middle East policy-making from the ?Israel Firsters? and secondly to subordinate military approaches to empire building to market interests, the question arises as to what strategic policies, tactical alliances, regional realignments and specific proposals dealing with the US military presence in Iraq Baker will propose?

10-30-06 - In Lieberman race, Jewish vote seems to turn on Israel support

10-30-06 - Iran sounds an awful lot like Iraq ** Recent months have seen the creation of an "Iran directorate" at the Pentagon, using some of the same personnel as the Office of Special Plans, the shadowy Pentagon outfit led by former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith that was accused of massaging raw intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war look far more solid than in fact it was. Iran has now supplanted Iraq as the greatest single threat to the United States, according to the National Security Strategy released earlier this year. Articles in the New Yorker and Time describe an accelerated rate of contingency military planning in an environment in which many senior officials ? on the military and civilian sides ? consider war with Iran more a question of when rather than if. And just why has Iran been placed at the fore, folks? I wonder. And again. More. Another. You get the point.

10-30-06 - Newly sworn-in Lieberman already set to visit US Lieberman is already set for his first trip abroad as a minister. He will travel to the United States on December 8 to take part in the prestigious Saban Forum at the Saban Center For Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC

10-29-06 - Stung by Republican ads on Israel, Democrats defend part in online chat These candidates would SEEM to be running in an election to serve Israel, not the US.

10-29-06 - In heavily Jewish Florida district, perception of Israel support is key Congressional support for Israel will remain steadfast whoever controls the House, said Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen, the Republican chairwoman of the House's Middle East subcommittee who represents Florida's 18th District......."Iran is the biggest threat to Israel right now," he said. "I think we should be refocusing our attention on the real threats. The longer we're mired in this civil war in Iraq, the less it allows us to lead other countries in restricting Iran's ability to export terrorism." Regarding the title of this article -it's that way in most of America.

10-29-06 - Open door Some months ago, the Guardian published two articles dealing with Israel's apartheid-like system. It is a well-respected news outfit of Britain. There's a big difference between what THEY report, and what OUR MEDIA reports. And that is exactly why a staunchly pro-Israel outfit such as CAMERA seeks to detract/obfuscate/dismiss/etc etc etc these reports. Report one. Report 2. Looks like CAMERA had a complete sh#t fit about those reports since it couldn't get away with what it does in the US MSM. My how the tables have turned over the centuries, eh? America has (silently) become (re-)occupied territory. And if the American people knew what grip those people have on our government..



10-28-06 - Trailing in Polls, GOP Senator Reaches Out to Jews "He finds a lot of common points on intersection between himself and the Jewish people and the land of Israel," said a top Santorum aide with ties to right-wing pro-Israel circles, Barbara Ledeen.

10-27-06 - 50 Years After Suez, US Hegemony Ebbing Fast the Bush administration's failure to exercise any demonstrable pressure on Israel to seriously engage the Palestinians in a peace process, its transparent support for Israel's military offensive and bombing campaign in Lebanon last summer's war with Hezbollah, and its rejection to date of renewed Arab efforts to promote the 2002 Saudi peace plan in the wake of the Lebanon conflict have effectively destroyed the image of Washington as an honest broker. Thus far in his Presidency, Bush Jr. has refused to stand up to Israel like his old man did.

10-27-06 - US Affairs: Is there an ally in the House? Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, is in line to become chairman of the House International Relations Committee if the Democrats win. But some rumblings suggest other lawmakers - namely Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) - may bypass him because of Lantos' support for the Iraq war. Privately, congressional aides say Lantos has been reassured by Pelosi that he will get the chairmanship; both men are considered strong backers of the Jewish state...... the new foreign operations subcommittee chair would be Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), a strong, proactive Israel backer. Lantos is an Israel-firster.

10-27-06 - From 2002: Lieberman and Cheney March In the Footsteps of Joe McCarthy Among the agencies engaged in this coordinated witch-hunt are: View the article to check out the list of offenders, the usual (pro-Israeli) suspects. He forgot to include WND and FrontPage mag.

10-27-06 - Rice?s Counselor Gives Advice Others May Not Want to Hear , in choosing Mr. Zelikow as her counselor, she eschewed Elliott L. Abrams, a darling of neoconservatives and the pro-Israel lobby.

10-27-06 - Republican staffer threatened TAU funds A Republican congressman reprimanded a staffer for threatening to cut U.S. funds to Tel Aviv University unless a donor agreed to stop backing his opponent.

10-27-06 - Israel and U.S. to expand civil air defense cooperation It's outrageous that our security systems continue to be outsourced to Israel.

10-27-06 - Report: FBI In Expanded Aipac Probe the allegations - along with the upcoming trial of Rosen and Weissman, and the recent book deal signed by two of the pro-Israel lobby's most prominent and vocal critics, scholars Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer - are likely to trigger increased media and public scrutiny of the pro-Israel lobby's efforts to influence the decision-making process in Washington. Oh dear.

10-27-06 - Shin Bet to upgrade security in LA Airport Los Angeles International Airport invites team of security experts from Shin Bet, Ben Gurion Airport to examine airport's security arrangements. Say what? We allow the secret intelligence unit of a FOREIGN country offer up security advice to one of our major airports? How moronic is that?

10-27-06 - Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to US-Mideast Understanding Christian Zionists have pushed the militarist policies of both Israel and the U.S. in an effort to secure the Holy Land in preparation for the coming of the "promised land." As part of this strategy, the U.S. occupation of Iraq is deemed absolutely necessary.

10-27-06 - Israeli PM accuses world of doing 'nothing' over Iran

10-27-06 - Bush: World must 'double' effort on Iran nuclear program Israel says "Jump!", the US says "How high?".

10-26-06 - U.S. evangelicals on mission in Israel The Christians support the extreme Israeli right-wing position which opposes any territorial compromises to the Palestinians.

10-26-06 - Dems to host Israel online meeting Top U.S. congressional Democrats will host an online "town hall meeting" on Israel on Friday

10-26-06 - Waxman blasts Justice on Harman A top congressional Democrat called on the Justice Department to publicize what it knows about an investigation into relations between AIPAC and a Jewish congresswoman.

10-26-06 - What's for Dinner? The dinner was hardly an unusual one for AIPAC. The group often arranges such elite pow-wows at the homes of senior members of Congress and government officials (one in the mid-1990s was hosted by then Vice President Al Gore) as a way for AIPAC to both demonstrate its political clout and to provide a perk for major donors.

10-26-06 - Israel to provide F-15 fighter components Israel's Elbit Systems unit Cyclone has been awarded a $19 million contract with Boeing Co. to provide components for U.S. F-15 fighters.

10-26-06 - American Arabs and Muslims begin to flex political muscle From 1990 through 2004, Arab Americans gave $788,968 in individual donations, political action committee contributions and soft money to federal parties and candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research and advocacy group. During the same period, pro-Israel groups and individuals donated $56.8 million.

10-25-06 - Exclusive: Hillary Clinton On Israel, Iraq And Terror Sen. Clinton: First, I don't think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win instead of signing off on an electoral system that advantaged Hamas. "If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win"........

10-25-06 - Iran, Syria rapidly rearming Hezbollah Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday.....He met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte, among others, on a visit to Washington this week in advance of U.S.-Israel security talks set for December.

10-25-06 - Israel's experience with harsh questioning may provide guidance Mohammed Barghouthi - the labor minister for the Palestinian Authority, which is led by the militant group Hamas - was held and questioned for 48 days this summer before being released without charge. He said he was shackled to a chair in a painful position for hours at a time. But more painful, he said, were the threats against his family, the screams of interrogators and the humiliation of other Palestinian lawmakers that he was forced to witness. The problem is, Dion, this is exactly where the US got the ideas in the first place. It's where the term 'Palestinian hanging' came from and it's why it was used on Iraqi prisoners. This nation is heavily under the influence of a foreign entity.

10-25-06 - Candidates speak out on the issues On Israel What role should the United States play in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, and their "benefactors," Iran and Syria?

10-25-06 - U.S. lawmaker chides Carter on 'apartheid' In his statement Tuesday, Conyers said he called Carter "to express my concerns about the title of the book, and to request that the title be changed. President Carter does not build upon his career as a proponent of peace in the Middle East with this comparison and I hope he and his publisher will reconsider this decision."

10-25-06 - Dodd: U.S. wrong to urge Palestinian vote He joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who also addressed the conference, in urging final passage before the year is out of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, which would isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority....McCain said a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel.

10-25-06 - AIPAC condemns Republicans for 'loyalty' jibe The American Israel Public Affairs Committee condemned Republican activists who said failure to support their candidate amounted to "disloyalty" to Israel.

10-25-06 - Jewish Billionaires versus AIPAC Despite the misleading double-talk, this campaign represents a real and serious threat to Israel. AIPAC is possibly the greatest success story of any American lobbying group. It has one overriding role: To support Israel and Israel government policies Were AIPAC to initiate policies conflicting or inconsistent with the objectives of the Israel government it would lose its grassroots support overnight. Note the source. After such a frank admission, doesn't it follow that AIPAC should register as a FOREIGN agent?

10-25-06 - 'US withdrawal from Iraq would be disastrous for Israel' ** "...And what if the US becomes trigger-shy? No one else except the US has the military might to set back Iran's nuclear program. Maybe Israel, but it's not certain. If the US gets trigger-shy, then we're in trouble." .....The result would be that "the terror efforts currently directed against US forces in Iraq would be turned against Israel," Ahh. I see. So the US military is being used as a type of human shield.

10-24-06 - Israeli deputy PM warns of Iranian nuclear threat "We discussed the Iranian issue which is a threat not only against the state of Israel but it is a threat against all the Western countries," Mofaz told reporters after meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Nicholas Burns, the State Department's number three, in charge of the Iranian nuclear issue.

10-24-06 - Israeli dignitaries and supporters converge on Savannah The Savannah Jewish Federation joined as a co-sponsor of "Convergence 2006" after the controversy over a paper published by the London Review of Books in May claiming an expansive Jewish lobby is undermining American political interests.

10-24-06 - Government expert tells terrorism trial of Mideast violence A terrorism expert told a federal court jury Tuesday that suicide bombers have killed hundreds of Israelis but a defense attorney said five times as many Palestinians have died amid the violent conflict. Palestine on trial in the US courts.

10-24-06 - Report that Jews backed Harman for help on AIPAC trial dismissed The lead Democratic Party donor making the case for Harman was Haim Saban, the Power Rangers toy and TV-show magnate, who also has been a major donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Brookings Institution, where a center for Middle East studies was established in his name. Saban, a dual Israeli citizen, also is a donor to Israel's Labor Party....Sources close to Harman, who is Jewish, and Pelosi acknowledged that there has been such lobbying, but added that it's par for the course and not illegal, though Pelosi has made it clear she resents the pressure

10-24-06 - Congressman: Help Bangladeshi journalist A U.S. congressman called on the Bush administration to intervene on behalf of a Bangladeshi journalist facing sedition charges for advocating ties with Israel. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

10-24-06 - Air Force to Establish New Cyberspace Operations Command Lani Kass, director of of the service's Cyberspace Task Force, served in the IDF. She also served at the Pentagon - what a surprise. And it looks like I answered one of my own questions from last week.

10-24-06 - Democratic leaders: Carter wrong on Israel Both parties must pander to the Israeli lobby - lest they be perceived as hostile to Israel, and thus lose the elections. The interests of the majority of Americans (who do not make up the Israeli lobby) do not factor in.

10-23-06 - Soros considers backing peace initiative

10-23-06 - Israel-U.S. to develop plane defense? Israel and the United States are considering the joint development of defense systems for civilian aircraft. Just curious, does "joint development" mean Israel develops it, the US pays for it, and Israel uses it? Or that the US develops it, the US pays for it, and Israel uses it?....

10-23-06 - Top Dems slam Carter book According to advance publicity, the book argues that Israel?s settlement policy is principally to blame for the failure of peace initiatives in the Middle East. AIPAC's shills on Capitol Hill take Carter to task for daring to speak out.

10-23-06 - Breaking the Silence - The debate ignited by Walt and Mearsheimer gathers momentum. On any other political question?abortion, guns, health care?it is understood that there are two sides, but in the United States (and only in the United States), where Israel is concerned there is only one position. As far as I'm concerned, with respect to America's well being, Mearsheimer and Walt rank right up there with the founding fathers of this nation.

10-23-06 - The Lobby, Unmasked

10-22-06 - The post-Israel Middle East The Zionists have put all their eggs in the basket of American support, but that basket has developed two holes. One is the paradox that support for the Zionist series of wars and conflicts has so weakened the United States that it is no longer a reliable ally. Faced with a real crisis in Korea, the Americans are powerless to do anything, and have to rely on China to fix things. Some Israelis are already setting up shop in China. And then there's this. I predicted as much a couple of years ago on a message board.

10-21-06 - Rice prods Moscow on press freedom, Iran Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday delivered a symbolic rebuke to Russia over shrinking press freedoms even as she courted President Vladimir Putin for help punishing Iran over its nuclear program Hmm, let's see. Israeli officials travel to Washington this week. Then, Olmert travels to see Putin yesterday and fails to get support on Iran. One day later, Rice is in Russia to get support on Iran.

10-21-06 - Peres: Israel has no intention of attacking Iran ** Israel has said repeatedly it wants the United States and other countries to take the lead in dealing with Iran If they can get us to do it for them. Israeli officials have in the recent past demanded that the US deal with Iran and Syria.

10-21-06 - Essential ally - Pro-Israel lobby gathering here will examine some of the most troubling challenges to U.S. foreign policy AIPAC's mission is almost as essential for the United States as it is for Israel. BS.

10-21-06 - Exclusive: Feds Probe a Top Democrat's Relationship with AIPAC Did a Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government.

10-20-06 - Israelis coming to D.C. Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter met this week with Stephen Hadley, the White House?s national security adviser. Stephen Hadley is a neocon.

10-20-06 - Carter Book Slaps Israel With 'Apartheid' Tag, Provides Ammo to GOP Israel's current policy in the territories, Carter writes in the book's summary, is "a system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights." In a separate passage in the advance draft, the former president stated that "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land." You can pre-order this book at Amazon.

10-19-06 - Israel Must Not Ignore A Devalued American Dollar Israel must not ignore such facts while perilously relying on one superpower, no matter how trustworthy, as an implied guarantor of its prosperity and perhaps viable existence..... It would be propitious, in the long run, for the Israeli shekel to grow in value based solely on the merits of Israel?s economy, implicitly suggesting that Israel not rely on the fortunes of its staunchest ally. .....Cut the cord now Israel, your brainpower needs no external help Ungrateful @$%@!~!@ers.

10-19-06 - Dichter to White House: Egypt must do more Dichter also met with his U.S. counterpart, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. We've been given our orders.

10-19-06 - Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change" ** Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter: "The path that the United States is currently embarked on regarding Iran is a path that will inevitably lead to war. Such a course of action will make even the historical mistake we made in Iraq pale by comparison." ...Look, Bush has already said that he doesn't want to leave Iran to the next president, that this is a problem he needs to solve now. And the other factor that we haven?t woven in here that we need to is the role played by Israel in pressuring the United States for a very aggressive stance against Iran Thank you Scott Ritter for having the cojones to point out the elephant in the room.

10-19-06 - Poll: Forty percent of American voters believe the Israel Lobby has been a key factor in going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran A new poll commissioned by the Council for the National Interest Foundation shows that a significant number of Americans are wary of the power of the Israel lobby, and believe it is behind the invasion of Iraq and the current belligerent tone of the White House and Congress toward Iran. Those that don't agree may need to read this, for starters.

10-19-06 - Israel Lobby Congressional Junkets ? as Usual PoliticalMoneyLine, a watchdog group that follows money in politics, reported on its website that while congressional travel spending has significantly dropped this election year from levels attained in 2003, the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) continues to spend freely on congressional junkets it runs to Israel. The junkets are underwritten by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), which is the 501(c)(3) wing of AIPAC.

10-19-06 - Furor Over Carter?s South Africa Analogy several Jewish leaders have complained that the ads, by criticizing the entire Democratic Party for the hostile statements of a few members, are undercutting the broad pro-Israel coalition that has dominated American politics for decades. - "the broad pro-Israel coalition that has dominated American politics for decades." But if Walt and Measheimer say that they're anti-Semites. K.

10-18-06 - Congresswoman: Safeguard US aid to Abbas

10-18-06 - Israel Lobby Initiates Hispanic Strategy: "Invadimos a Iran" The Israel lobby clearly sees Hispanic voters as a new and largely untapped force in American politics in need of leadership harnessed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) foreign policy issue framework.

10-17-06 - Flood of late campaign donations fueled Johnson's win over McKinney The Jewish community particularly seized on the opportunity to defeat McKinney, who some critics view as anti-semitic and who has been outspoken in her support for Palestinian and Arab causes.

10-17-06 - The Jewish left rears its head The new lobby will try to promote a known "political recipe": It will back Israeli policies when they promote the lobby's agenda, but in other cases it will try to sabotage them.

10-17-06 - Jewish political partisans in U.S. engaged in pre-election outreach

10-16-06 - US: Jury picked for alleged Hamas supporters trial

10-16-06 - ZOA Condemns Sec'y Rice For Making Most Pro-Palestinian Speech In Memory By U.S. Administration Official The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice?s keynote speech last week to the American Task Force on Palestine as the most pro-Palestinian Arab, anti-Israel speech in memory by a major US Administration official Oh dear. Condi, you've got some 'splaining to do.

10-16-06 - Steep drop in travel spending after congressional scandals behind the American Israel Education Foundation, which has emerged as the new top sponsor despite its close ties to the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington. The foundation spent $583,131, sponsoring 62 trips to Israel for lawmakers, their relatives and staff from July 2005 to July 2006.....while the organization is considered an independent entity, its affiliation with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee -- a lobby that is consistently ranked among the nation's most powerful interest groups -- blurs the lines between lobbies and nonprofit educational groups. Members of Congress are banned from accepting travel expenses from lobbyists...Founded in 1990, the education foundation shares its office space and phone number with AIPAC -- the lobbying group. In 2005, 17 of the foundation's directors were also vice presidents on the group's board, and one was the president. And just why are these trips allowed in the wake of the lobbying scandal? The Israeli lobby, of course.

10-16-06 - Confronting the War Pushers.

10-16-06 - Israel's internal security minister to dispense advice in the US He will also meet in Washington with Mueller, US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, Drug Enforcement Agency administrator Karen Tandy and Frances Townsend, the homeland security adviser to US President George W. Bush. After Boston, Dichter, ministry director-general Ronny Falk and Israel Police's US representative, Cmdr. Mickey Levy, are expected to travel to the nation's capital to meet with government leaders from the White House and Congress as well as American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) heads The Israelization of the United States continues at full speed.

10-15-06 - Merchant gathers Israeli politicians in Savannah Benny Davis, a former South Carolina candidate for U.S. Senate with ties to Israel's right-wing Likud Party, is sponsoring an "international summit on Israel" next weekend at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center.....In 2005, Benny Davis sponsored a gathering in Jerusalem of more than 1,000 "right-wing religious activists" working to see construction of a third temple at the Temple Mount, according to The Jerusalem Post.....In addition to building on the Temple Mount, Benny Davis said she is lobbying the U.S. government to pass a resolution backing Israeli rights to retain control over all Jewish holy sites, including the Temple Mount.

10-14-06 - Clint, what about Iran? ** Why isn't Sheriff George W. Bush pulling out his rifle in order to drive the bad guys out of town, before they make the global village evaporate in smoky mushrooms? Because thanks to the neocons, he's got his hands full in Iraq. And secondly, whose war is it? Fight your own battles (sh#t), or get off the pot. Enough of the whining.

10-14-06 - A right to wrong I am not sure what it means to be on Abe Foxman's radar (nor would I like to find out), but the idea that Tony Judt being denied an audience and a microphone is a positive outcome to this dispute is outrageously stupid and counterproductive.

10-13-06 - Christians and Zionists: apocalypse row in Jerusalem The Christian Zionist movement offers Israelis financial support from born-again Bible-belt Christians, principally in the United States, Germany, South Africa, and Scandinavia. Proselytising to convert Jews to Christianity is outlawed, although clandestine efforts to Israeli Muslims have been condoned by at least one cabinet minister.

10-13-06 - Texas buys more Israel Bonds

10-13-06 - IDF: Only US operation can stop Iran **

10-12-06 - U. of Maryland dedicatesInstitute for Israel StudiesCenter named for Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Alma Gildenhorn points out that while the university has a large Jewish population ? an estimated 6,000 students, or more than 20 percent of the student body ? "not all of them are well-informed, and it is up to us to help them."

10-12-06 - Christian Zionists descend on Israel for festival They love the state of Israel because they say the Bible foretells the return of the Jews to the Holy Lands before the final battle takes place, Armageddon, when the anti-Christ will be defeated. Most of the Christian Zionists are American. They've raised millions of dollars for Israel and they've cultivated ties with the right of Israeli politics. .....DAVID HARDAKER: After a terrific start he became tetchy when asked to explain why his group supports Israeli settlements being built on Palestinian land.

10-12-06 - UTLA quashes Israel divestment push "Some of the Jewish establishment is absolutely intolerant of any discussion of any sort that has to do with Palestinian human rights; anything that's critical of Israel," The Israeli lobby doesn't exist. It's an anti-Semitic myth.

10-12-06 - New pro-Israel initiative doesn't aim to compete with AIPAC, organizers say Top AIPAC officials said they saw the organization as complementing AIPAC's pro-Israel mission from different perspectives, as the Zionist Organization of America now does from the right and Americans for Peace Now does from the left. Both organizations are represented on AIPAC's executive committee.

10-12-06 - US General: Strikes on Iran possible by 2007 ** Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf but academics, left-wing politicians and experts say a military option is not on the cards for the Bush administration because of the situation in Iraq "Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf" - no s%#t? Really? I never would have guessed.

10-12-06 - AIPAC Runs Right

10-11-06 - UNRWA Must Be Brought in Line with UN High Commissioner for Refugees While not advocating the de-funding of UNRWA, JINSA believes its mandate should be changed to resemble the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an agency that sees the resettlement of refugees as its priority. Both Sen. Coleman and Rep. Kirk agreed that UNRWA?s mandate was problematic while acknowledging that the organization provides valuable services for Palestinians refugees. So says the pro-Israeli outfit JINSA and its minions on Capitol Hill. JINSA- neocon central, placing matters to the fore of US politics in line with a policy that can best be summed up by two words: Israel first!

10-11-06 - The Non-Lobby Not at Work

10-11-06 - Rice says U.S. wants end to Palestinian "humiliation" "The Palestinian people deserve a better life, a life that is rooted in liberty, democracy, uncompromised by violence and terrorism, unburdened by corruption and misrule and forever free of the daily humiliation of occupation," And only the US has the power to see to that. Yet it is unable to do so. Here's why.

10-11-06 - Sharansky quitting politics He entered politics in 1996 with the new immigrant party Yisrael Ba'Aliyah, eventually serving as a Cabinet minister. He resigned from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government last year to protest the looming Gaza Strip withdrawal. That move coincided with the publication of his book "The Case for Democracy," which was co-authored by Israeli diplomat Ron Dermer and drew praise from President Bush. Sharansky is widely expected to write a new book on geopolitics. Sharansky's idea of spreading of 'democracy'in the Middle East was taken up by Bush.

10-11-06 - Evangelicals invest $40m. in aliya A Jerusalem-based Evangelical Christian organization announced Tuesday that it has helped 100,000 Jews move to Israel during the past decade and a half. Here's why.

10-11-06 - Dobbs: Middle class needs to fight back now Political, business and academic elites are waging an outright war on working men and women and their families, and there is no chance the American middle class will survive this assault if the dominant forces unleashed over the past five years continue unchecked. They've accomplished this through large campaign contributions, armies of lobbyists that have swamped Washington, and control of political and economic think tanks and media. Lobbyists, in fact, are the arms dealers in the war on the middle class, brokering money, influence and information between their clients our elected officials

10-11-06 - Soros pairing with dovish Jews to consider an alternative to AIPAC That success was an impetus to the current initiative, participants in the late September meeting said: It fed their perception that AIPAC is not adequately representing American Jews, who polls show have overwhelmingly backed past peace plans

10-10-06 - Devout Christians march for Zionism in Jerusalem The return of the Jews to Israel will pave the way for Christ's second coming, they believe. "My beliefs say that this land belongs to the Jews," said Diane, one of the pilgrims marching on Tuesday

10-10-06 - Soros mulls AIPAC alternative Billionaire George Soros is considering funding a dovish, pro-Israel alternative to AIPAC, JTA has learned.

10-10-06 - US free speech row grows as author says Jewish complaints stopped launch party The British-based author and former publisher Carmen Callil has become embroiled in a growing dispute over the limits of freedom of speech in America after a party celebrating her new book on Vichy France was cancelled because of the opinion she expresses about the modern state of Israel. Oh you are free to criticize Israel in America, but the MSM and other outfits will shun you like the plague, that's all.

10-09-06 - Barghouti prosecutor to think tank Dvorah Chen started at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Oct. 5.

10-09-06 - In N.Y., Sparks Fly Over Israel Criticism Judt, who was born and raised in England and lost much of his family in the Holocaust, took strong exception to the cancellation of his speech. He noted that he was forced to cancel another speech later this month at Manhattan College in the Bronx after a different Jewish group had complained. Other prominent academics have described encountering such problems, in some cases more severe, stretching over the past three decades. The pattern, Judt says, is unmistakable and chilling It's all a big conspiracy theory, nothing to see here...

10-08-06 - Olmert to convene panel of top officials to discuss Iran ** The group will debate Israeli policy toward Washington's proposed sanctions. It will also discuss developments in light of the Lebanon War, with even moderate states expressing concern about Iran. Olmert will update participants on his conversations last week with Condoleezza Rice on regional organization.

10-07-06 - Robert Fisk: The Age of Terror - a landmark report When will the bombers arrive? After further massacres in Iraq? After the Israelis cross the border again? After Israel - or the US - bombs Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months?....Even when Ariel Sharon was staging his withdrawal of 8,500 settlers from Gaza last year, he was shifting 12,000 more settlers into the West Bank, and George W Bush had effectively accepted this illegality by talking of the "realities" of the Jewish settlements still being enlarged there. And that was the end of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 upon which the "peace process" was supposed to be based - Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, in return for the security of all states in the area. One of the few honourable American statesmen to grasp what this portends is ex-President Jimmy Carter Great article. Read the whole thing.

10-06-06 - U.S. pays to clear cluster bombs The United States is paying $9 million to clear explosives in southern Lebanon, most of them cluster bombs fired by Israel. If there was any justice, that money would come from the aid money we give to Israel each year. Or better yet, it would be cut entirely for the fact that Israel committed war crimes by firing those cluster bombs into civilian areas (see related article in today's news batch).

10-06-06 - Israelis Win Contract To Secure US Borders As Chertoff announced the awarding of the contract, estimated to be worth some $2.5 billion, he was giving a very lucrative and sensitive contract to an Israeli company with close ties to the Israeli military. This was also reported in the Jerusalem Post. Israelis or Israeli companies influencing or directly providing our airport security is also taking place and it's nothing new. Why is it that a foreign nation is protecting our borders and airports? (and also training our soldiers, and influencing our police agencies nationwide). Read on: "Huntleigh U.S.A., another Israeli-owned security company, provided passenger screening at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Huntleigh, which is wholly owned by the Israeli company International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) apparently failed to intercept the Arab terrorists who hijacked the two planes that hit the World Trade Center, according to the government version. Now, the same administration that failed to stop the terror attacks of 9-11 is hiring an Israeli-owned company to help protect the entire U.S. land border. " Scary stuff.

10-06-06 - Israel Lobby Debate at the Cooper Union A video recording of the debate in 11 segments can be found here.

10-05-06 - America and Israel How would you describe U.S. support for Israel under the Bush administration? 62% Too strong

10-05-06 - Israel opens office in Atlanta The Georgia office will be Israel?s hub to the Bible Belt and to a huge Christian market that provides 35 percent of Israel?s tourism, according to ministry officials

10-05-06 - Rice leaves Israel without agreement to ease Palestinian restrictions Who's in charge here?

10-05-06 - Lieberman Queries Lamont Over Commitment to Israel Senator Joseph I. Lieberman questioned his opponent?s commitment to Israel at a fund-raiser in Manhattan yesterday, saying he had received important support from several Democrats who have been critical of Israel. Which country will they be representing, America or Israel? You know the answer.

10-04-06 - Off Limits? Talk By Israel Critic Canceled ADL National Director Abraham Foxman acknowledged his group spoke with Kasprzyk about the issue, but strongly denied exerting any such pressure.....Pro-Israel advocates also claimed their lobbying of Yale University donors succeeded in preventing Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Middle Eastern studies professor, from receiving a tenured appointment at Yale earlier this year. University officials denied they played a role. Just a big 'conspiracy theory'. Nothing to see here.

10-04-06 - US support for Israel threatening peace: Iran Iran warned yesterday that the current Middle East tour of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will end in failure unless Washington ends its support of Israel ? Tehran?s arch-foe in the region. That view was shared by a number of newspapers in the Arab world. ....?Its own policies have helped promote the extremism it now fears, and have weakened the impact and credibility of the so-called moderate Arabs it now seeks to bolster,?

10-04-06 - Scholars Land Book Deal for Attack on 'Israel Lobby' The David Duke card is being played again by the ADL in an attempt to smear the authors of the study to try to discredit it. This actually proves one of the points of the study - the smear of anti-Semitism is used by individuals and organizations like the ADL in the Israeli lobby in an attempt to silence dissenters.

10-04-06 - Oregon House speaker discloses trip to Israel paid for by private group The state treasurer said he had reported the $4,000 that came from private citizens, who are associated with the Jewish Federation, to pay for his trip to Israel. He said the trip was valuable because it allowed him to visit personally with managers of a Tel Aviv-based buyout company with whom the state has invested $50 million.

10-04-06 - Tony Judt Speech Shut Down by ADL I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.

10-04-06 - The Cooper Union "Israel Lobby" Debate no one denied the fact that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ? the epitome of the Lobby ? was one of the most powerful forces on Capitol Hill. Khalidi reminded the audience of the framing of the debate it does in Congress, from the resolutions it drafts, to the congressmen it harasses, to the candidates for public office that it vets. It works tirelessly to demonstrate that U.S. and Israeli interests are exactly the same......It was a travesty of news coverage that it was not televised, not even by C-Span, and no major media covered the event, including the major newspapers

10-03-06 - Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly incumbents - and challengers Since he lost the Democratic party's nomination - and its financial backing - for his Senate seat, Lieberman has become the top fund-raiser among American Jews whose primary political focus is support for Israel.....Among the trends in pro-Israel money, fund-raisers say, is a rush to defend endangered Israel-friendly incumbents, the majority of whom are Republicans. There is also significant support directed toward challengers of incumbents such as Chafee and Hostettler, who are not considered friendly to Israel. America's interests factor in, exactly how?

10-03-06 - Cries of victory, sighs of defeat from Jews as Congress recesses The American Israel Public Affairs Committee scored a victory in a separate bill setting up an office within the Homeland Security Department that would coordinate cooperation with counterparts in Israel, Britain, Australia, Canada and Singapore.....Appropriations for U.S.-Israel programs, victory. An AIPAC priority, the $460 million allocated for such programs in the U.S. Defense Appropriations bill is separate from the $2.8 billion Israel receives each year in assistance, and is considered an investment. Some of the innovations, including protective tiles for armored vehicles, a targeting and navigation pod and unmanned aerial vehicles, already are in use in Iraq.

10-03-06 - Rice off to Middle East - with no new ideas the Saudi foreign minister. He described the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the region's "core problem" on whose settlement the resolution of other disputes depended. Similar appeals have come from Egypt and Jordan. But Ms Rice, conscious of neo-con opposition at home to any pressure for Israeli concessions and aware that Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is in no shape politically to reopen peace talks, offered no concrete res

10-01-06 - To contain Iran, keep military options open For Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to snare an invitation to speak before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently, after threatening several times to destroy Israel, is what's known in military parlance as a successful "information op." The Christian Science Monitor giving airtime to what would appear to be a neoconservative - and it's not the first time either.


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