The proposal to free spy Jonathan Pollard in exchange for Israel extending a temporary freeze on settlement building has now received support from four Democrats in Congress. Although many claim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initiated this latest bid to free...
A Bipartisan Look at the Israel Lobby
Could Ground-Zero Mosque’s Backers Be Worse Than AIPAC’s?
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...
The Israel Lobby Swims The Atlantic
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...
Try Assange Under the Espionage Act
Will Obama Be Blackmailed?
Rahm Emanuel 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. Behind closed doors, they shower him – if one is to believe the media – with anti-Semitic...
Obama Can Stop Funding Illegal Settlements
The Crisis That Wasn’t
Truth and Consequences in the Middle East
Considering the Obama administration's ever wobblier attempt to impose "crippling sanctions" on Iran, the New York Times' David Sanger recently wrote, "The delays and the potential for a substantially watered-down resolution, Mr. Obama's allies say,...
Stop Funding the Israelis
If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the AIPAC conference isn't a reason for the US to declare – finally – that they've had quite enough of the "special relationship," then nothing is. After ambushing the Vice President of the United...


