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Israel Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 2 November 2013

The question of war or peace with Iran rests with the policies adopted by the White House and the US Congress. The peace overtures by newly elected Iranian President Rohani have resonated favorably around the world, except with Israel and its Zionist acolytes in North America and Europe.

France’s first married gay couple in Tel Aviv

8 June 2013

Vincent Bruno Autin and Boileau, the first same-sex couple to have married in France since the adoption of the "marriage for all" law, have headed to Tel Aviv for their honeymoon and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Gay Pride Parade.
The trip has been offered by the city of Tel Aviv (…)

Kennedy, the Lobby and the Bomb

by Laurent Guyénot

2 May 2013

Exactly fifty years ago a crucial episode took place in the history of “U.S. democracy”; an epic struggle whose outcome would influence the future of the entire world. Guyénot Laurent revisits those events and recalls what was at stake at that critical historical juncture.

According to WINEP, the Shiites banned the atomic bomb to better conceal they are building it

27 September 2011

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which denounced the supposedly military nature of the Iranian nuclear program, must regularly be confronted with a hefty contention: how is it possible that the Revolutionary Guards could be developing such a program in secret when the (…)

Barack Obama is the wrong target

by Alan Hart

20 June 2011

Alan Hart argues that rather than attack President Obama for his failure in the Middle East, supporters of justice for the Palestinians should “target ... America’s pork-barrel system of politics which puts what passes for democracy up for sale to the highest bidders...” thereby surrendering US (…)

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Is Arab Spring Spreading to US Congressional Staffs?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 29 May 2011

By unanimously applauding the lies of the Prime Minister of an apartheid regime, the Congress of the United States coveyed to the world the image of a totalitarian and monolithic body. However, this impression masks a more complex reality, emphasizes former Congressional aide Franklin P. Lamb. (…)

Obama bows to AIPAC’s will

by Richard Falk

28 May 2011

On Sunday May 22, 2011, Barack Obama spoke at an AIPAC Conference, three days after giving his pro-Israeli speech at the State Department on his broader Middle East foreign policy. It was a shockingly partisan speech to the extremist lobbying group that has the entire US Congress in an (…)

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Panic in the Houses of Congress and AIPAC?

by Franklin P. Lamb

Beirut (Lebanon) | 1 May 2011

On April 13, 2011, more than a dozen Israel “First, last and always” US congressional leaders from both houses of Congress held an urgent conference call organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Their purpose was to discuss how best to promote Israel during next (…)

Former AIPAC official confirms Lobby access to US secrets

5 January 2011

In 2005, the FBI filed criminal charges against a Pentagon official, Colonel Lawrence Franklin, and a former National Security Council analyst now working for the Brookings Institution, Kenneth Pollack. Both men were suspected, independently, of turning State secrets over to two top agents of (…)

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The Truth Will Set U.S. Free: Breaking Israel’s Stranglehold over American Foreign Policy

by Maidhc Ó Cathail

28 September 2010

An increasing number of U.S. pundits, including Jeffrey Blankfort, propose a grassroots approach for untightening Israel’s noose around their country’s throat. The people of the United States must be made aware of the incalculable damage that unconditional support for Israel is causing their (…)

The Harmans buy Newsweek

7 August 2010

For the token price of 1 U.S. dollar, business tycoon Sydney Harman and his wife bought Newsweek, assuming all the company’s obligations.
Sydney Harman amassed a fortune as manufacturer of high-fidelity equipment and chairman of Haman International Industries. He was President Carter’s (…)

Remarks by Benjamin Netanyahu at the 2010 AIPAC Policy Conference

by Benjamin Netanyahu

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 22 March 2010

Thank you very much. I think it was Woody Allen that said he spent a lifetime trying to arrive late at a Jewish event, and never made it. I came on time with my wife Sara, the mother of Avner and Yair and it’s very good to be with all of you.
As the world faces monumental challenges, I know (…)

Remarks by Hillary Clinton at the 2010 AIPAC Policy Conference

by Hillary Clinton

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 22 March 2010

Thank you. Thank you for that welcome. And it is wonderful to be back at AIPAC with so many good friends. I saw a number of them backstage before coming out, and I can assure you that I received a lot of advice. (Laughter.) I know I always do when I see my friends from AIPAC. And I want to thank (…)

US: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Greatest Threat of All?

by Jim Lobe

12 May 2009

Two major events over the past week in Washington - the AIPAC conference and the visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari - crystallized the ongoing tug of war for predominance over the Obama Administration’s foreign policy agenda. Simply put, the (…)

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The Lobby Falters

by John J. Mearsheimer

26 March 2009

Amidst the infighting of the coalition that carried Barack Obama to the White House, the Israel Lobby (AIPAC) managed to get rid of Charles Freeman as chair of the National Intelligence Council. For many years, Charles Freeman had been advocating within the State Department and the CIA for a (…)

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