Category Archives: Iran

On Iran, Obama’s fmr national security adviser uses the new C-word (Contain)

Obama and Netanyahu are quarreling over the response to Iran. Obama’s former national security adviser says we can contain a nuclear Iran

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Israeli undercover unit’s murder of Palestinian civilian was part of “training exercise”

Khader Adnan returns home after months in administrative detention and a historic hunger strike

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Media Matters report documents inflation of threat from Iran on news networks

The Josh Block/AIPAC smear campaign against Media Matters for America hasn’t worked. A new report documents how mainstream media is inflating the alleged threat from Iran.

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As 100s of other prisoners begin hunger strike,Thaer Halahla, 7 weeks without food, vomits blood

and other developments from the occupation: Attack on Danish Activist / Suppression of Bike Tour Religious cover to attack peace activists: Rabbis: Officer reacted to highly unusual circumstances Prominent rabbis rally to aid of officer who assaulted foreign activist; slam military’s … Continue reading

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P5 +1 Iran nuclear talks went swimmingly! Netanyahu is fuming

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Negotiations with Iran threaten Israel’s hardline approach– Dismantle Fordo now or we’ll bomb it later

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Democratic Jewish group attacks Mark Perry for report on Israeli access to Azeri airspace

Mark Perry’s reporting is being unfairly attacked by a Democratic Party-linked group, another reminder that the Israel lobby is ensconced within the party.

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11-year-old child beaten in pro-prisoner march

And other news from Today in Palestine: Israeli occupation forces severely beat an 11-year-old child while participating in a peaceful march in Ma’sara village, south of Bethlehem, on Friday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. link to www.palestine-info.co.uk Land Theft & … Continue reading

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Peggy Noonan blasts Republicans for Iran warmongering

Peggy Noonan explains that Americans don’t want another war. She should take on the neocons

Posted in Iran, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 18 Comments

Dave Eggers won’t accept Grass Foundation prize lest he have to– horrors– say anything about Israel and Iran

Dave Eggers has more important things to do than get dragged into a discussion of nuclear arms that threaten the world

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Israel lobby group committed to ‘new media’ uses mushroom cloud in tweet (updated)

‘Stop nuclear Iran!’ wrote Act for Israel, in tweeting this pic. The lobby group has several Israel security types on its board, and several Americans too

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Jeffrey Goldberg’s claim that Iran’s Supreme Leader wants to kill Israeli Jews is based on shoddy sources

The last time Jeffrey Goldberg was pushing war he also inflated dubious reports from the Middle East

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American Jews won’t vote on Israel in 2012 election

A new report on the voting behavior of American Jews indicates, despite efforts by hasbara groups and partisan superPACS Israel is not an election issue. And popular support for Barack Obama is about level with the last election.

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Wallace interview with Ahmadinejad was little more than deliberate demonization

Mike Wallace’s August 2006 interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad made headlines around the world and cemented Ahmadinejad’s reputation as a genocidal threat to Israel and a confrontational denier of the Holocaust in the hearts and minds of Western audiences. But those threats and denials came from Wallace’s voice-over, not Ahmadinejad’s actual words.

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Power outages lead to the death of three children in Gaza

A family in the central Gaza Strip has suffered an unimaginable tragedy because of a candle lit during one of Gaza’s frequent power outages.

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The children of Kufr Qadum: “You arrested our fathers, so we lead the demonstration today”

After Israeli army nightly incursion into Kufr Qadum accompanied by massive arrest of villagers , the children of the village have come out in protest with a message to the occupying army and the world: “You Arrested Our Fathers, So We Lead the Demonstration Today”. The weekly demonstration has again been brutally suppressed by the army, who blacked all entrances to the village, took hold of a home, made use of the “Skunk”, and fired the usual dose of teargas and shock rounds.

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Israel bars Gunter Grass from entry under law barring former Nazis

Avigdor Liberbman says Gunter Grass would sacrifice Israel to a Holocaust — because he dared to speak of Israeli nuclear weapons as a threat to peace

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CLM: Jeffrey Goldberg snits where he eats

CLM means career-limiting move. And Jeffrey Goldberg shows off two of ‘em at the Atlantic

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Iran has ‘promised’ ‘another Holocaust’ — CBS commentator

Warmongering hysteria about Iran on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” show

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The untold suffering of Palestinian children (190 in detention now)

‘The Suffering of the Palestinian Child Under Israeli Occupation’ — important document published today

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Grass smears in ‘Times’, plus new translation of his ‘I’ve had it with the West’s hypocrisy’ poem

‘The New York Times’ ascribes Gunter Grass’s anti-nuclear-weapons poem to his guilt over service in Nazi military in WWII

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Sy Hersh: US funded and trained Iranian group on State Dept. terror list

If the report is true, it would mean that the US is deeply involved in the business of conducting what can only be described as a low-level, covert war being waged on Iran.

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MJ Rosenberg is leaving ‘Media Matters’ to start his own blog

MJ Rosenberg has just announced that he is leaving Media Matters to publish his own blog. I can’t wait to read his blog. Rosenberg is a great journalist, he’s been a leading opponent of war on Iran, he’s had a … Continue reading

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Government hypocrisy competition

Righteous allies! US officials blame Koran-burning protests in Afghanistan on Iranian agents. And Ehud Barak says that Israel won’t tolerate illegal facts on the ground in the West Bank. OMG!

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The intellectual cowardice of Günter Grass’s critics

Gunter Grass has made a logical demand: Israel’s own huge nuclear arsenal must be acknowledged as a factor in the Middle East conflict

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Israeli forces attempt to arrest 2-1/2-year-old Palestinian

Israelis crack down on Kufr Qaddoum, part of Jerusalem municipality on eastern side of separation wall

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