Category Archives: Neocons

UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’

Ethnic Cleansing / Land Theft & Destruction / Occupation & Apartheid / Exile & Restriction of Movement / Refugees Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Passive-aggressive George Bush namechecks neocons for getting us into that mess

George Bush brings up neocons in his memoir only to show how they gave bad advice on Iraq war

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Politics | 83 Comments

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

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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

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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

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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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 97 Comments

Danish right-wing: ‘Made in settlement’ labels preempt Israel’s expanding borders

Yesterday, Denmark announced that produce from Israeli settlements will no longer carry a “made in Israel” sticker, sparking criticism from the country’s extremist anti-immigration political party, Dansk Folkeparti, or the Danish People’s Party (DPP).

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 65 Comments

Daily escalations in Occupied Palestine

Eight Palestinian farmers are injured in an unprovoked attack

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Walzer says Jews were on the left because the left supported Jews

The Jewish idea of chosenness is reaching its rendezvous with the American destiny; and the Jewish universalist tradition will triumph

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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

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Nakba 64 years later, we will never forget

News and headlines from Nakba Day, 2012.

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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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 44 Comments

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

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The neocon machine

The three horsemen the neocon propaganda organs: Kristol, Abrams and Goldberg

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House support for Israel damages prospects for peace

On Monday, the House of Representatives released a draft of the 2013 budget bill, which includes an eye-popping $1.5 billion in weapons earmarked for Israel.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 42 Comments

Michael Scheuer says Israeli lobby has tied American gov’t down like Gulliver

Our leaders tell us bin Laden attacked us because of our liberties. But they ignore what he said in his declaration of war

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Bin Laden docs show that alleged Iran-Al Qaeda alliance is neocon hype

‘Al Qaeda has a substantial network inside Iran’ is a common assertion heard in neoconservative circles. New documents show why that assertion is wrong.

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Native American and Indigenous Studies Scholars defend UCLA Professor David Shorter and supporters of BDS

In an open letter condemning the Amcha Initiative’s charges of anti-Semitism, Native American and Indigenous Studies scholars who endorse the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) defend their colleague, UCLA Professor David Shorter.

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Beinart warns Jews that not talking to Palestinians and anti-Zionists ‘makes us stupid’

Tribal dance on the Upper West Side

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 101 Comments

When Netanyahu described Iran as Amalek — read, Hitler– NYT passed this along as rational thinking

In ’09, NYT gave platform to Jeffrey Goldberg to rationalize Netanyahu’s messianism

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Tail has stopped wagging, so dog can stop talking about war with Iran

The New York Times and Atlantic fell for sensationalist cries for attacking Iran

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‘Messianic’ rap on Netanyahu frees Obama, thaws discourse (and exposes ‘No Return’ Goldberg)

Who’s the messianic threat in the Middle East, Iran or Netanyahu? Netanyahu, says former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin

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Beinart’s romance, and the coming tragedy

American Jewry married an idolatrous form of nationalism in the 1960s. We need a divorce, and Peter Beinart’s romantic vision won’t save the relationship

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 104 Comments