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[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: The Decline of the Israeli Right and the ...: It is anxiety over the prospect that the current far-right Netanyahu government is becoming increasingly isolated from the world community, including the Obama administration in the US, and from a new generation of progressive Jewish Americans that explains the rash of scurrilous charges of 'anti-Semitism' being thrown around by the 'Israel-can-do-no-wrong' crowd in recent days.

[Stephen M. Walt] Why John Judis is Wrong about the Iraq War | Stephen M. Walt: Anat Weinstein-Berkovits, the Information Ministry’s spokeswoman, said the material would be translated into a number of languages so that Jews everywhere could use it in defense of Israel. In a later phase of the program, citizens would be trained in how to speak on foreign television and radio broadcasts about their lives and experiences.

[Signs of the Times] The Jews of Iraq -- Signs of the Times News: (There were ways of getting Iraqi dinars out, but when the immigrants went to exchange them in Israel they found that the Israeli government kept 50 percent of the value.) Even those Iraqi Jews who had not registered to emigrate, but who happened to be abroad, faced loss of their nationality if they didn't return within a specified time. An ancient, cultured, prosperous community had been uprooted and its people transplanted to a land dominated by East European Jews, whose culture was not only foreign but entirely hateful to them.

[Stop the War Coalition site feed] stopwar.org.uk: In parallel with this languid official response, most of the British media has treated the assassination more as a ripping spy yarn than a bloody scandal which has put British citizens at greater risk by association with Mossad death squads. It was an "audacious hit", the Daily Mail enthused, straight out of a "Frederick Forsyth page-turner", while the Times revelled in an attack that resembled nothing so much as a "well-plotted ­murder mystery".

[Stephen M. Walt] Blair, Bush, Israel and Iraq | Stephen M. Walt: He mentioned the "Israel issue" in the context of the considerations in going to war, but that could just as easily refer to the effect launching the war would have on other Mideast peace prospects (his comments suggest they were concerned with broader Mideast issues) and how it would "play" in the rest of the region, as well as whether there would be a repeat of attacks on Israel as a result of a coalition attack against Iraq, and what to do with Israel in terms of its potential response.

[Home] Is it The Iraq Inquiry or the Chilcot Conspiracy?: What has now happened as a result of these "False Flags" and shonky under the table deals involving the US, UK, Israel and South Africa we have now reaped in the harvest - Gulf War, Afghanistan War and the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. The big one is still pending (Iran) but the west is extremely cautious on this next stage of their overall plan.

[Journal] AlisonWeir.org - Journal - Britain's Inquiry into the Iraq War and ...: press in the UK and even in the US that testimony at the Inquiry revealed that Blair and Bush had agreed upon military action against Iraq as early as April 2002 though this decision on war was never revealed to the US people or to Congress. In fact, the October 11, 2002 Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq did not expressly spell out war and President Bush claimed at that time that it was not a mandate for war but could be used to bring about a solution by peaceful means.

[Eurasia Review] Moscow - A Home For Middle Eastern Radicals? | Eurasia Review: The war in Iraq mobilized the Islamic resistance throughout the world and simultaneously strengthened the positions of Israeli hawks like Liberman, whom one can hardly imagine as negotiating a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians. Today, the world is facing a double threat emanating from the Middle East: the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran and the no less likely pre-emptive strike on Iran by the Israelis, who since 1967 have lived by the rule that offense is the best defense.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » The case for an Israeli strike against ...: No outside analyst has sufficient information to judge the issue - with the best of information a great deal of uncertainty is inevitable - but there are several reasons to believe that an Israeli attack on Iran would establish the Jewish state as an independent superpower and compel the United States to adjust its policy to Israel’s strategic requirements.

[Pakistanpal's Blog] War on terror again? « Pakistanpal's Blog: Certain executive actions on the part of newly elected Obama administration, such as the decision to close down Guantanamo, the moves to restore normal judicial process for persons charged with or detained on suspicion of terrorism, and the instructions given to security and intelligence agencies to respect the human rights of detainees and refrain from all practices of torture, gave some long-needed sense of direction at the level of official policy in Washington. Secondly, many governments and a broad array of NGOs followed Obama’s lead in discarding the Bush administration’s rhetoric and attitudes on the war on terror, which integrally linked terrorism with Islam, reduced the handling of terrorism to the military/security dimension, and de- prioritised international law and human rights in the handling of the phenomenon.

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » US Economic Sanctions on Syria Have Failed: The Israeli media marked the one-year anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, the war on Gaza, almost as a celebration. The operation is recognised almost unanimously in Israel as a military triumph, a combat victory over one of Israel's deadliest .

[Feed for Arabist.net] Walt & Mearsheimer vindicated - Blog - The Arabist: Notice that Blair is not saying that Israel dreamed up the idea of attacking Iraq or that Bush was bent on war solely to benefit Israel or even to appease the Israel lobby here at home. But Blair is acknowledging that concerns about Israel were part of the equation, and that the Israeli government was being actively consulted in the planning for the war.

[RUTHFULLY YOURS] MIDEAST TERROR AND DOUBLE STANDARDS: P.DAVID HORNIK | RUTHFULLY YOURS: And they applied a standard to it that has not been applied to other democracies combating terror in the Middle East ”” from the 2004 Battle of Fallujah, Iraq, where U.S. and British forces had to fight in built-up areas and inflicted .Given the already prevailing anti-Israeli climate, it is no surprise that this time the Human Rights Council answered back with the 574-page Goldstone Report accusing Israel of war crimes, a document that has been denounced as “a shoddy .

[The New Middle East Project] Why Do They Hate Us? « The New Middle East Project: It is the central aim of the New Middle East Project to compare and contrast the distinctive visions for the future of the region; most principally, the Middle East shaped by imperial interests, and in contradistinction, the Middle East envisioned by the spirit of resistance.

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Gaza: Treading on Shards: Because Gaza needs approximately 240,000 truckloads of food and supplies per year to "meet the needs of the population and the reconstruction effort," according to the Palestinian Federation of Industries, current levels are, in a word, obscene. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program, "The evidence shows that the population is being sustained at the most basic or minimum humanitarian standard." This has likely contributed to the prevalence of stunting (low height for age), an indicator of chronic malnutrition, which has been pronounced among Gaza's children younger than 5, increasing from 8.2 percent in 1996 to 13.2 percent in 2006.

[Thevaleman's Blog] Mossad, Saddam's supergun and Gerald Bull. « Thevaleman's Blog: Looking back now, this ill-starred affair looks almost amusing in its clumsy application, but the intent was deadly serious, at least the Israelis thought so because they were the clear and obvious target of these weapons. I am sure that Gerald Bull was 'encouraged' by Israel during these years to give up his efforts in Iraq to no avail.

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