Senate report exposes key role of the Israel lobby in fomenting war with Iran


	Senate report exposes key role of the Israel lobby in fomenting war with Iran

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6-12-2008 8:51 PM

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Senate report exposes key role of the Israel lobby in fomenting war with Iran</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">For years, I've been saying that the only way to understand the Iraq war – 
  a war that hurt, rather than advanced, American interests – is to see it as 
  a successful covert action carried out by the Israelis</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">The "<A href="http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm">Clean Break</A>" 
  scenario, launched by American "advisers" to</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">
  Netanyahu, laid it all out in 1996. That was the theory, the <A href="http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jun/02/commentary-babble-rabble/">practice</A> 
  of which is revealed in second section of the Senate intelligence report</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">Our invasion of Iraq has led <A href="http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:2WoBIpbGIMYJ:www.thenation.com/doc/20080310/dreyfuss%2Bsite:www.thenation.com%2Bdreyfuss%2Biran&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us">directly</A> 
  to a looming confrontation with Iran, just as the war-planners knew it would. 
  What the second portion of the Senate report shows, however, is that we are 
  also prisoners of <A href="http://www.antiwar.com/orig/mearwalt.php?articleid=9573">the 
  Israel lobby</A>, which is inexorably pushing us into war with Iran. That l</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">
  activity, relentless in pursuit of its goals – and its enemies</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">activity, relentless in pursuit of its goals</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">there is growing resistance to the Lobby's hegemony</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">within 
  intelligence, counter-intelligence</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12972">Pollard</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5628B52A-98A4-404D-8B41-0CFAB76CF64B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>