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Obama vs. Reagan on AIPAC

Obama vs. Reagan on AIPAC Documents reveal Ronald Reagan’s response to Israel lobby invitation  by Grant Smith Antiwar Forum  May 16, 2011 Politico reports that President Barack Obama may attend the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gathering in Washington, D.C. According to documents released last week by the National Archives, President Ronald Reagan [...]

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Billionaire George Soros revealed as mystery J Street donor

American financier had criticized liberal lobby group’s rival AIPAC for being too hawkish. By Natasha Mozgovaya Haaretz     Sun, September 26, 2010 WASHINGTON – Liberal Jewish lobby group J Street has received sizable donations from multi-billionaire George Soros, the Washington Times reported Friday. The American financier has in the past criticized J Street’s rival AIPAC for [...]

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

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 [...]

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Mossad in America

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 [...]

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Israel and the anti-Muslim blow-up

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 [...]

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The Israel Lobby Swims The Atlantic

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 [...]

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The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment

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 [...]

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Uri Avnery: A Day in November — Rahm and Israel

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 [...]

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

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 Books - [...]

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

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 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 [...]

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Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran

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 [...]

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