Free Pollard Now, Pay Later

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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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