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POPSObama caves to the Zionist Lobby He was doing so well, but then he backed down on his insistence that Netanyahu freeze all settlement building in occupied Palestine. It seems Obama spoke a good game, but he's had his spine removed. Read the whole story at source.
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POPSOMG, How Dumb Is This Administration! (Act II) For what purpose? Shore up their support with the Jewish voters or Israeli lobby? Show how savvy they are in international matters? Are they that dumb, or do they think we are that dumb to think we few 100+ million are being quietly let in on the big secret?
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POPSNew bin Laden tape: Reasons for 9/11 “The time has come for you to liberate yourselves from fear and the ideological terrorism of neoconservatives and the Israeli lobby,” the voice attributed to Mr. bin Laden said. “The reason for our dispute with you is your support for your ally Israel, occupying our land in Palestine.”
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POPS'Bin Laden' tape harangues Obama "If you stop the war, then fine. Otherwise we will have no choice but to continue our war of attrition on every front If you choose safety and stopping wars, as opinion polls show you do, then we are ready to respond to this," it says. In the message, the al-Qaeda leader accuses the new president of failing to fundamentally change foreign policy because of his decision to retain key figures from the previous administration, including Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
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POPSJ-Street: The New Israel Lobby 
It is safe to say that at least one participant in the meeting enjoyed this exchange immensely: Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and executive director of J Street, a year-old lobbying group with progressive views on Israel. Some of the mainstream groups vehemently protested the White House decision to invite J Street, which they regard as a marginal organization located well beyond the consensus that they themselves seek to enforce. But J Street shares the Obama administration’s agenda, and the invitation stayed. Ben-Ami didn’t say a word at the meeting — he is aware of J Street’s neophyte status — but afterward he was quoted extensively in the press, which vexed the mainstream groups all over again. J Street does not accept the “public harmony” rule any more than Obama does. In a conversation a month before the White House session, Ben-Ami explained to me: “We’re trying to redefine what it means to be pro-Israel. You don’t have to be noncritical. You don’t have to adopt the party line. It
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POPSIsrael gives its American sugar-daddy the finger The Israeli settlements are built on illegally occupied Palestinian land. Plain & simple. If it's illegal to start with, why should a settlement be allowed to grow naturally? The Occupied Territories are not part of Israel, they are conquered land. Palestinian land. And international law forbids military occupiers to colonize foreign territory. This the the basic fact that The Israel Lobby 's propaganda campaigns aims to obscure. This is what all those UN resolutions condemning Israel and their brutal Apartheid (the ones the US AUTOMATICALLY blocks) are about. The settlements, and the illegal colonists who live in them, have to go. And don't get started on the "This is the land God promised to us" bullshit. Go ask God for billions of dollars a year, not the American Taxpayer.
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POPSThe Apartheid State Israeli Solution
Like in the Gaza Strip now Israel would control all income and cash into the Apartheid State and prohibit or restrict critical social needs like petrol, concrete, full and free medical care, "luxury goods," like cigarettes and chocolate, etc. The newly released "Master Plan," for the removal of Arabs from East Jerusalem -- http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=37582 -- continues the evictions and destruction of Palestine under the charade of building "green zones" and "preserving historic buildings." It looks like the pretense of a 'two-state solution,' will be a U.S. funded Club Med & Military Camp next to a Palestinian outhouse -- at best. If I was Palestinian, political action and legal court action at the UN, World Court, ICC, etc. for war crimes and policies of genocide might bear some fruit. Plus, lobby to get all Palestinians declared political refugees would help escape. Raise cash Gotta start bribing(lobbying) US & EU politicians like A
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POPSBiden: Israel must accept Palestinian state British officials predict that Netanyahu will eventually accept the principle of Palestinian statehood, largely because of American pressure. But they believe he will hold out for a while in order to avoid being seen to give way easily. In his speech, Mr Biden was careful to call on the PA to "combat terror and incitement against Israel". He stressed that the US would never abandon its commitment to Israel's security. ... Guardian
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POPSObama Admin Drops Charges Against AIPAC Israeli Spies The FBI tried to prosecute them, but Obama's Justice Dept. prevented it, after intimidating tactics (subpoenas to heavy weights for show) by AIPAC's lawyers. The two indicted were not the first: The indictment against Rosen and Weissman charged that they obtained and then disclosed to reporters and to an Israeli official classified information on U.S. policy toward Iran ...A former Defense Department official, Lawrence A. Franklin, previously pleaded guilty to providing Rosen and Weissman classified defense information and was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
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POPSBombshell (!) in Israeli-USA Spy Network Case I'm glad this reporter summed up yesterday's revelations (see clip) -- and he did a good job -- because it would have stretched the limits of my own incredulousness to do so. 1. Serious Israeli spying on the USA. (Not accusation. Guy in jail for 12 years; previous cases, guys in jail) 2. These two Israeli lobbyist from AIPAC are facing trial for being involved but real heavy-duty machinations keep getting the trial postponed. 3. Jewish Congresswoman Jane Harmon tells the Jewish Lobby and Israeli agents she will help quash the trial of the two AIPAC lobbyist if they can use their influence to get her nominated to become head of the House Intelligence Committee. 4. This is caught on tap in a legal wiretap that was on the AIPAC accused Israeli spies. 5. AG Gonzales (this was a year ago,Bush president) stops any investigation of Congresswoman Harmon by the NSA in exchange for her supporting Bush era illegal warrantless wiretaping of US citizens. Wow! This can't go on.
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POPSU.S. Foreign Aid to Israel Illegal due to Israel's WMD The official report of Israel's nuclear weaponry makes it illegal for the U.S. to provide foreign aid to Israel! Note too that Obama recently "ducked" the question from the most veteran reporter in Washington, Helen Thomas (a real journalist). This demonstrates the real fear of the Israeli Lobby by Obama too. Why not uphold the law? Why the deliberate blindness toward Israel? Here is a push-point to challenge and change U.S. foreign policy and cut spending. By law, the U.S. would have to cease providing billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel if it determined the country had a nuclear weapons program. That's because the so-called Symington Amendment, passed in 1976, bars assistance to countries developing technology for nuclear weapons proliferation.
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POPSIsrael Launches New Propaganda campaign 'Hasbara' Several pro-Israeli public relations organizations also work for Hasbara and are involved in intensive letter-writing and talk-back radiocall campaigns aimed at challenging any views critical of Tel Aviv. Many journalists covering the Middle East will confirm that this area is one of the touchiest in regard to hyper-sensitive lobby groups. Editors too are regular recipients of a flurry of mail protesting any articles deemed too critical of Israel. Students, supportive of Israel, on university campuses throughout the United States have also been supplied with the Hasbara Handbook, which details how to promote Israel and counter criticism of the country.
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POPSObama to Adopt Neocon's "Multiple War" Policy Blueprint
The first clips reveal Obama's new policy, to which Robert Gates gives evidence, and the American Enterprise Institute (arm of the Israeli Lobby) confidently announces (as if they run the Obama administration). This was the exact blueprint of the neonconservative think tank, Project for a New American Century --who ran the Bush administration's foreign policy from within--and is proven by their own infamous document (clip 3) called Rebuilding America's Defenses, which the policy parrots: LARGE WARS...the United States must retain sufficient forces able to rapidly deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars and also to be able to respond to unanticipated contingencies in regions where it does not maintain forward-based forces. This resembles the “two-war” standard that has been the basis of U.S. force planning over the past decade. Yet this standard needs to be updated to account for new realities and potential new conflicts
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POPSFreeman: US run by Israeli Lobby
The outspoken politician said he had clear evidence against the lobbyists who are "determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East." During his headship of the Middle East Policy Council (MEPC), allegations were leveled against Freeman that he functioned as "a mouthpiece for Saudi Arabia" in exchange for money from the Saudi royalties. He has also been accused of bias towards Beijing for constantly advising the White House to forge stronger China ties. "I have never sought to be paid or accepted payment from any foreign government, including Saudi Arabia or China, for any service, nor have I ever spoken on behalf of a foreign government, its interests, or its policies," Freeman continued. He wondered if President Barack Obama's administration could formulate its own Middle East policy despite the lobby. He also warned that the body's coercive methods ultimately "threat
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POPSThe Zionist Story in my documentary I approach the subject from the perspective of an Israeli, ex-reserve soldier and someone who has spent his entire life in the shadow of Zionism.
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POPSWINEP Targets Iran: Neoliberals at Work for Israel in Washington The neocons have a cousin on the left of close relation. The top of the clip is the JPost story you likely saw on Drudge. The lower clip is the profile on WINEP, mentioned by JPost's article, worth reading in its entirety. So here we have a Jerusalem Post story about Israel considering military action against Iran, and supporting it all from a "Washington" (but Israeli) think tank for justification. Meet the neo-liberals, the counterparts of the neoconservatives, both tied to the Israeli Lobby network . American political structure is infiltrated on both right and left by various think tanks to support wars or conflicts for the "Greater Israel" Agenda. The Israeli Lobby is like an Octopus with tentacles everywhere in Washington (and press) which the RightWeb clip describes in more detail. In contrast to the obviously partisan character of AIPAC, WINEP has projected itself, at least until the administration of George W. Bush, as an objective institute. [/quot
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POPS"The Israel Lobby" by Mearsheimer & Walt Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and those of the other country – in this case, Israel – are essentially identical. Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing that given to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct economic and military assistance since 1976, and is the largest recipient in total since World War Two, to the tune of well over $140 billion (in 2004 dollars). Israel receives about $3 billion in direct assistance each year, roughly one-fifth of the foreign aid budget, and worth about $500 a year for every Israeli. This largesse is especially striking since Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per-capita income roughly equal to that of South Korea or Spain.
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