Tag: israel
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so who’s afraid of the israel lobby?
from ray mcgovern: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, and has demonstrated that time and again, and not only on Capitol Hill. Nowhere is the Lobby’s power more clearly demonstrated than in its ability to suppress the awful truth that on…
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US prepares to disable north korean nuclear arsenal
from spacewar: The United States is preparing to send experts to North Korea to launch a groundbreaking effort to disable the hardline communist state’s nuclear weapons arsenal following a six-nation agreement. The pact, unveiled by China on Wednesday, was hailed by President George W. Bush as a commitment “to realize a Korean Peninsula that is…
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israel admits air strike on syria
from bbc: Israel has confirmed that it carried out a strike on a Syrian military installation last month. Syria accused Israel at the time but Israeli officials refused to comment, and the Israeli military censor imposed a strict blackout on information. The censor’s office has now allowed some details to be released. On Monday, Syrian…
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report: russia evacuates entire bushehr staff
iranian news outlet claims nuclear experts packed their bags friday, increasing speculation of imminent US, israeli attackfrom paul joseph watson: Iranian and Israeli news outlets are reporting that Russia has evacuated its entire staff of nuclear engineers and experts who were working at the Bushehr nuclear reactor, increasing speculation that the US is preparing an…
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cheney mulled israeli strike on iran
from reuters: Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site. Citing two unidentified…
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ahmadinejad questions 9/11 & the holocaust
from ap: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.” Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying…
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iran & israel face off over nuclear weapons
from spacewar: Iran called for UN inspectors to be dispatched to verify whether Israel has nuclear weapons, in a heated showdown with the Jewish state at a meeting of the UN atomic agency Friday. The face-off between the two nations came as Arab states condemned Israel for hiding an atomic arsenal, at a general conference…
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was israeli raid a dry run for attack on iran?
from guardian: The head of Israel’s airforce, Major-General Eliezer Shkedi, was visiting a base in the coastal city of Herziliya last week. For the 50-year-old general, also the head of Israel’s Iran Command, which would fight a war with Tehran if ordered, it was a morale-boosting affair, a meet-and-greet with pilots and navigators who had…
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police break up israeli neo-nazi ring
from ap: Police said Sunday they have broken up a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused of a string of brutal racist and anti-Semitic attacks, videos of which were played on television to a stunned national audience. The eight suspects, all immigrants from the former Soviet Union in their late teens or early 20s, are…
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maryland county bans political junkets to israel
from jewish daily forward: In a challenge to one of the most powerful lobbying tactics used by the Jewish community, a county in Maryland decided last week that local legislators could no longer go on sponsored trips to Israel. Montgomery County’s ethics commission decided last month that council members are prohibited from traveling at the…
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selling a war with iran
cheney orders media to sell attack on iranfrom paul joseph watson: Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University. The New…
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jewish group plans to sue youtube for anti-israel videos
from haaretz: Germany’s Central Council of Jews is considering a criminal complaint against YouTube for allowing videos that promote racial hatred and glorify war, it was reported Sunday. Such action makes the video-sharing website liable to charges of incitement to racial hatred, the council’s vice president, Salomon Korn, told the German television program Report Mainz.…
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israeli terror expert: US terror attack ’90 days at most’
from fox: Counterterrorism expert Juval Aviv spoke with FOX Fan Central about what Americans can do to protect themselves in case of a terror attack. Fox: Do you believe another terrorist attack is likely on American soil? Aviv: I predict, based primarily on information that is floating in Europe and the Middle East, that an…
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july clearinghouse
ron paul’s quixotic campaign confuses career pols gonzales’s truthfulness long disputed california city to transform red light cameras into spy cameras US agrees to $30bn defence aid deal with israel flying robots of destruction support our robots k-what? unbuilt maui tv station lands questionable call letters US army eyes truck-mounted laser captured & killed al-qaeda…
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armageddon time!
rapture ready: the unauthorized christians united for israel tour from raw story: After attending the College Republican convention, Nation journalist Max Blumenthal took his camera to the Christians United for Israel’s annual Washington-Israel Summit in D.C. Founded by right-wing mega-church pastor John Hagee, the group has “added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to…