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California Passes Resolution Equating Criticism of Israel With Anti-Semitism
Via, Mondoweiss, a new resolution passed by the California State Assembly attempts to limit criticism of Israeli policy on college campuses by equating it with anti-Semitic hate speech. The law urges “California colleges and universities to squelch nascent anti-Semitism” and “encourages university leaders to combat a wide array of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel actions,” according to ...
US Arms Transfers Reach Unprecedented Highs
Via Secrecy News: “In worldwide arms transfer agreements in 2011 — to both developed and developing nations — the United States dominated, ranking first with $66.3 billion in such agreements or 77.7% of all such agreements. This is the highest single year agreements total in the history of the U.S. arms export program,” the CRS report said. ...
The Rise of Jewish Terrorism in the West Bank
From Foreign Affairs: According to UN investigations, in 2011, extremist settlers launched almost 300 attacks on Palestinian property, causing over 100 Palestinian casualties and destroying or damaging about 10,000 trees of Palestinian farmers. The UN has also reported that violent incidents against Palestinians have proliferated, rising from 200 attacks in 2009 to over 400 in ...
‘Ya Know Who’s Messianic? Netanyahu.’
With the drum beat for war on Iran intensifying in recent weeks, the question seems to come down to whether or not Israel is bluffing about their implied military strike on Iran before the November presidential elections in the US. Al-Monitor yesterday interviewed “former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl” who “traveled to Israel ...
Iran’s Nuclear Program Merely a Pretext
Former CIA analyst and Antiwar.com contributor Ray McGovern spoke with Business Insider about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hankering to bomb Iran and why “delaying Iran’s nuclear capabilities is not the primary concern of a military strike, but simply the pretext.” “The Israelis want to pretend the Iranians are building up their nuclear capabilities, want to zap ...
Ehud Barak Admits Iran Has Defensive Posture, No Weapons Program
The most important and most frequently ignored distinction in the debate about Iran and its nuclear program is that Iran’s current postures are defensive in nature, not offensive. Right-wing pundits constantly harangue about Iran’s supposed intentions to annihilate Israel, wipe Israel off the map, and so on – and this, they claim, is why it’s ...
‘Israel is not going to attack Iran’
Journalist Larry Derfner says it plainly: “Israel is not going to attack Iran.” Not before the November 6 presidential election, not afterward if Obama wins, and maybe not afterward even if Romney wins, which is unlikely. It’s not that Netanyahu doesn’t want to bomb Iran - he does, and he makes that clearer every day. What’s ...
Romney Roils Middle East Waters With Diversions from U.S. Policy and Insults to Palestinians
Mitt Romney’s 36-hour stop in Israel lasted long enough for him to add a new set of gaffes and missteps to his itinerary for this foreign trip designed to showcase his foreign policy chops. Yesterday, I outlined a series of misadventures for the Mitt which included a Dan Senor-initiated embrace of a unilateral Israeli strike ...
Making Palestinian Life Impossible: Israel’s Push to Annex the West Bank
In the news section, Jason Ditz points to the recent World Bank report which considers a Palestinian state not viable because “the economy is currently not strong enough to support such a state.” Here, Israeli policy ends up serving as strategy: the persistent military occupation, economic restrictions, and destruction of Palestinian infrastructure – justified by ...
Ron Paul: We Must Stop the Fed from Causing More Harm
Later this month Congress will have an unprecedented opportunity to force the Federal Reserve to provide meaningful transparency to lawmakers and taxpayers. HR 459, my bill known as “Audit the Fed,” is scheduled for a vote before the full Congress in July. More than 270 of my colleagues cosponsored the bill, and it has the ...
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