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Could Ground-Zero Mosque’s Backers Be Worse Than AIPAC’s?

by RAINman on 31. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Grant Smith
Antiwar Forum  - August 30, 2010
Former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffer M.J. Rosenberg told the Israel lobby to “pull the plug” on activities fanning the “anti-Muslim explosion that has seized this country over the past month.” The former insider charges organizations such as AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and [...]

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Mossad in America

by RAINman on 26. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. — and gets away with it.
By Philip Giraldi
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA Officer, is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest. His “Deep Background” column appears every month exclusively in The American Conservative.
Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the [...]

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Israel and the anti-Muslim blow-up

by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By MJ Rosenberg
MJ Rosenberg is a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network. The above article first appeared in Foreign Policy Matters, a part of the Media Matters Action Network.
Al Jazeera  - Thursday, August 19, 2010
I don’t know why I am at all surprised that the American Right – including the [...]

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The Israel Lobby Swims The Atlantic

by RAINman on 19. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Grant Smith
Antiwar.com   -  August 18, 2010
Jeffrey Goldberg’s current cover story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” achieved massive distribution across a broad spectrum of old and new media in the United States. Some observers – including Glenn Greenwald in “How Propagandists Function” – noted how well the methodology and message of Goldberg’s piece [...]

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The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment

by RAINman on 14. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Peter Beinart
The New York Review of Books  - June 10, 2010
In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish community that I have [...]

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Uri Avnery: A Day in November — Rahm and Israel

by RAINman on 02. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. He is a contributor to CounterPunch’s book The Politics of Anti-Semitism.
CounterPunch    May 31, 2010
Rahm Emmanuel is, so it seems, the American most hated by the leaders of Israel. He is considered the most dangerous opponent of the Netanyahu government in the White House. [...]

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Professor Peter Beinart*: The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment

by RAINman on 20. May, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published in June.
The New York Review of [...]

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UC Berkeley Vote: A travesty of the “Democratic” process

by RAINman on 05. May, 2010 in Opinion

Debbie Menon*
2 May 2010
Disappointing, but this shows the immense power that “the Organization” has to overturn popular demand against amazing majority numbers in the face of all reason and “democratic” principle.

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Kucinich Withdraws Amid Uproar over His Israel Stance

by RAINman on 11. Nov, 2009 in General

By George Bennett
The Palm Beach Post   – 09 November 2009
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich lasted less than 24 hours as headliner for the Palm Beach County Democratic Party’s annual fundraising dinner after some of the party’s elected officials blasted the Ohio Democrat’s stance on Israel and threatened to skip the event.
Kucinich, who has a history [...]

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Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran

by RAINman on 22. Oct, 2009 in Opinion

By Helena Cobban
The Nation - 14 October 2009

If you walk along a certain dusty lane in the walled Old City of Damascus, you’ll come to a heavy door that admits you to the tree-shaded courtyards of the Talisman Hotel. Last January I was part of a small group that stayed at the Talisman. We ate breakfast [...]

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Can Obama take on Washington’s Israel lobby?

Can Obama take on Washington’s Israel lobby?

by RAINman on 04. Aug, 2009 in Analysis

Largest ever group of US Republican lawmakers in Israel to show support for Tel Aviv.
Middle East Online      2009-08-03
TEL AVIV – A delegation of 25 US congressmen began a six-day trip to Israel on Monday in the largest ever Republican mission to visit the Jewish state, the US embassy said.
Democrats will make a similar trip next [...]

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Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement

by RAINman on 07. Jul, 2009 in General

by Art Young
ALTERNATIVES    Tuesday 30 June 2009
The movement to call Israel to account for its crimes against the Palestinian people is growing. It is “invading the mainstream discourse, becoming part of the constant and unrelenting drumbeat against Israel.” It could eventually threaten the existence of the Jewish state by undermining the [...]

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