Category Archives: Neocons

Israel responds to Palestinian call to restart talks by legalizing three West Bank settlement outposts

The outposts, Sansana, Rechelim and Bruchin, were never formally authorized when founded in the 1990s and are still considered illegal under international law.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 50 Comments

Rubio’s audition for VP slot features full-throated support for neoconservative agenda, with Iran front and center

Marco Rubio’s speech at the Brookings Institute is an indication that the neoconservative wing of the GOP still commands immense influence.

Posted in Iran, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged , , | 7 Comments

Bradley Manning could become the Ellsberg of our age (if the media would just stop marginalizing him)

The media have painted Bradley Manning as a headcase, but he’s as heroic as Daniel Ellsberg, in a less hospitable intellectual climate

Posted in Activism, Iraq, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 47 Comments

Bernard Lewis revises Bernard Lewis (says he opposed invasion of Iraq!)

Cowardly lion Bernard Lewis argued for military takeover of Iraq in 2003. Now he says he was privately against it!

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 19 Comments

Why did Washington Post and NYT lend themselves to ‘unglued’ ‘angerfest’ directed at Beinart?

The liberal Zionist who kicked the MSM hornet’s nest, Peter Beinart

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 41 Comments

Nationalist public radio

Israel doesn’t seem to want peace with Iran. “We want to caution from falling into the trap of a good atmosphere,” its deputy foreign minister warns the world

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 27 Comments

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 9 Comments

1200 rabbis threaten an end to interfaith harmony if Methodists support divestment

1200 rabbis rally to stem Methodist divestment measure; Zionism is overwhelmingly supported inside Jewish life

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

In ‘Time,’ Cantor joins himself at the hip with Netanyahu in defiance of Obama

Netanyahu is the “right partner for America,” House Majority leader Eric Cantor says, thumbing his nose at Obama

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 25 Comments

Assange’s first guest on RT world premier: Nasrallah says US & Israel seek civil war in Syria

Nasrallah says that Israel and the US want civil war in Syria

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 149 Comments

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

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 144 Comments

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

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 23 Comments

Another Adelson (Moskowitz gives $1 million to anti-Obama PAC)

Paul Blumenthal reporting at Huffpo. It’s the Israel lobby again; like Sheldon Adelson, Irving Moskowitz is an octogenarian Jew with close connections to the Eastern European narrative, he’s for Greater Israel, and he’s out to paint Obama as a secret … Continue reading

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 4 Comments

Romney has friends in all the right places

Romney would subcontract our Middle East policy to Israel, thanks to his old friend Netanyahu

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 12 Comments

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

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 72 Comments

‘Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back

Leading German and Israeli writers back up Gunter Grass on the importance of his challenge to those who are silent about Israeli nukes’ threat to peace

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, War on Terror | 77 Comments

Video: Israeli military violently evicts Palestinians, internationals from Hebron house

Two days ago the Israeli military raided a house in Hebron’s old city, evicting Palestinian and international activists who hoped to prevent it from being taken over by settlers.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 7 Comments

Covering Adelson, Matthews leaves out the ‘Obama Oy Vey’ factor

Sheldon Adelson seems to be moving to Romney, hosting several big Jewish supporters of Israel– Mel Sembler, Sam Fox, and Norm Coleman

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 13 Comments

Jewish food fight (at Park Slope Co-op)

Kiera Feldman has a great piece of reportage up at the Nation about Tuesday’s boycott vote at the Park Slope Food Co-Op. (Alex Kane mentioned it here). The beauty of the reporting is that Feldman understands exactly where the locus … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 30 Comments

‘Judaizing’ Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem, with backing from Americans

Jeff Halper visits the Natche family home in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, which is under threat of eviction by vigilante settlers led by Arieh King and backed by the Israel Land Fund.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists | 7 Comments

Head of Bill Kristol’s lobby group calls on Israeli army to use Palestinian protesters as ‘target practice’

Noah Pollak has also called for shooting released Palestinian prisoners and Judaizing Jerusalem

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Politics | 24 Comments

Video: the Gaza onslaught

What does disproportionate and indiscriminate attack mean? And where do these attacks on Gaza originate?

Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 31 Comments

Settlers take over house in Hebron, PA detains owner

Several dozen settlers move into property located near Cave of Patriarchs; say they have legal ownership. Palestinian owner detained by PA police.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 1 Comment

Sullivan unmasks Goldberg as a propagandist for Netanyahu’s ‘lies, bluffs and deceptions’ aimed at getting us into war

Jeffrey Goldberg is a propagandist for the Israeli government

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 27 Comments

Ethnocentrism and journalism (Beinart’s double standard for Israel and Iraq)

Peter Beinart shut up for years about Israel because he didn’t live there and hadn’t studied the issue. That didn’t stop him from bold prescriptions for Iraq

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 57 Comments