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Category Archives: Iran
US official — we went to Israel first
US gov’t negotiators on Iran issue briefed Israel on recent talks before they briefed their own government
Aaron David Miller: After a short ‘peace process,’ look for war with Iran in 2013
Aaron David Miller predicts that there will be neither an agreement nor an attack on Iran in 2012. Instead he sees a “peace process” which will create an illusion of progress then end badly. In 2013, with the failure of negotiations, we could see a war, unless there is an “unexpected breakthrough.”
Iranian talks fail after neocon ‘blitz’ — as Obama dispatches aide to reassure Tel Aviv
Neocons drove Obama hardline on Iranian sanctions, as Wendy Sherman, former moderate at State, rushes to Israel to assure them of our commitment
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Politics
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Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees
Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian “refugees” or just around 30,000 — a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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‘Obama will only go as far on Iran as AIPAC permits him to go’
Israel lobby ratchets pressure on Iran, preempting global talks and threatening world peace
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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If Obama really has things under control, then why the loose talk from CentCom’s Mattis?
Obama’s strategy on Iran: keep ratcheting up pressure on Iran with the Israelis, put off military action till after November
U.S. and Israel coordinate– and signal hard line in Iran talks
Hard line against Iran is reminiscent of the hard lines leading up to the invasion of Iraq
‘Foreign Policy’ peddles productive Iranian war theory
Only a bloody war of attrition with Iran will lead Israel to resolve Palestinian conflict, says Israeli prof
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
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Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained
Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I
Republican Party boss Bill Kristol is treated like royalty on the Upper West Side in a “communal” Jewish conversation
Neocons in Washington Post: Military strike on Iran would ‘calm nerves in the region’
Washington Post pushes war with Iran with argument by two neoconservatives
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel
How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as ‘made in Israel’, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading
Feeling the hate in Long Island
Obama’s Jewish support has gone from 78% to 62% and rightwing rabbi stirs the pot with video of old Jews hinting Obama is a secret Muslim
Daily escalations in Occupied Palestine
Eight Palestinian farmers are injured in an unprovoked attack
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Removing MEK from the terrorist list would raise chance of war
Israel lobby agenda is to remove an Iranian terrorist group from State Dept list of banned orgs
Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics
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More ‘magnet than a mallet’: RAND Corporation warns against striking Iran
One week before the next P5+1 meeting with Iran in Baghdad, the RAND Corporation, one of the most influential and respected U.S. think tanks advising the Pentagon, has published a comprehensive report in the Rand Review warning against striking Iran.
Nakba 64 years later, we will never forget
News and headlines from Nakba Day, 2012.
The left lacks an analysis of the neocon rise
Rachel Maddow’s foreign policy speech and Ari Berman’s piece on Romney’s neocons both fail to mention the Israel lobby as a source of American foreign policy ideas
Peter Berg: Israel attacking Iran is a more important issue than my board game-inspired film ‘Battleship’
Peter Berg to Israel Channel 10 interviewer: “Join the IDF, motherfucker!”
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video
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AIPAC’s Iran resolution (What if Congress had told JFK he couldn’t ‘rely on containment’ with Soviets?)
HRes 568, AIPAC’s main goal. is a resolution telling Obama he can’t use containment for Iran nuclear activities
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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I Want My NPT: A weekend review of Iran nuclear program propaganda
Two news reports by major wire services this weekend demonstrate just how pervasive misinformation and propaganda are in the mainstream media when it comes to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
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The neocon machine
The three horsemen the neocon propaganda organs: Kristol, Abrams and Goldberg
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Politics
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Israeli officer threatens to rape Palestinian activists in custody (if this happened in Syria it would be headline news)
Israel faces major West Bank uprising over hunger strikers
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
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Neocons + Goldberg see coalition as heightening likelihood of war
Belligerence in the US press: Charles Krauthammer says it’s May 1967 and Israel’s neighbors are threatening it once again
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, US Politics
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Netanyahu gets special audience on nuclear talks
How much trust can the Iranians have in European negotiations if Catherine Ashton is visiting Israel to brief Netanyahu?
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine
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