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• Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees

  
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  Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian "refugees" or just around 30,000 -- a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving Israel and its Arab neighbors. When the ...
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• ‘Obama will only go as far on Iran as AIPAC permits him to go’

  
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  The other day the Senate unanimously passed an Iran sanctions act upping the pressure in an effort to preempt the talks now going on between world powers and Iran. Here (thanks to MJ Rosenberg) is AIPACs press release congratulating the Senate:  WASHINGTON — AIPAC applauds the Senate for passing the Iran ...
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• Honest broker? Israeli consulate sponsors Obama’s former Middle East peace adviser at Stanford talk!

  
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  Israeli consulates man Dennis Ross (center, in red tie) in the Oval Sept 2011 (White House photo by Pete Souza) Dennis Ross worked for Obama for several years on Middle East peace. And before that he worked for Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush too. But he was always accused of bias toward Israel. Aaron David Miller ...
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• Philip Roth on the Israel lobby

  
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  Philip Roth A couple times Ive said that Philip Roth talks about the Israel lobby in his 1986 novel, The Counterlife . Well it was a rainy night and the fire was going, and I did my homework.  The Israeli character Shuki Elchanan is a former press attache to David Ben-Gurion. He talks to the books American ...
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• U.S. and Israel coordinate– and signal hard line in Iran talks

  
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  News of an imminent deal between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Tehran concerning future inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities was greeted with skepticism in both Tel Aviv and Washington .   This evening the Ha’aretz (Hebrew only) websites top headline read, “Western diplomat:   ...
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• Bill Clinton’s $80 million swagbag includes some dough from ‘Israel First’ interests

  
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  Today a friend wrote to me to say that I and MJ Rosenberg are exaggerating the role of the Israel lobby in our politics. If this is true--and as my mother will tell you I have never had a very good sense of proportion--it is because everyone in the mainstream poohpoohs the power of the lobby, but it actually cost ...
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• Passive-aggressive George Bush namechecks neocons for getting us into that mess

  
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  Salad days: Wolfowitz and Bush In a post on Bill Kristols appearance in New York, Scott McConnell reminds us that George W. Bush called Kristol and Charles Krauthammer "the bomber boys" because they pressured him to bomb Iran. McConnell says the neocons may have had George W. Bush wrapped up, but he had real ...
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• ‘Foreign Policy’ peddles productive Iranian war theory

  
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  A chilling argument. Yagil Levy, an Israeli professor visiting at Georgetown, writes in Foreign Policy that Israel will only take the Palestinian issue seriously if it has a war with Iran. Note the crazy desperate logic of the second paragraph. Though Levy isnt for it, he is in tune with the "national psychosis ". ...
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• Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained

  
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  Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. http://news.yahoo.com/palestinians-arrest-10-islamic-jihad-members-072842106.html ...
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• Google is partnering with Technion and Cornell in NY

  
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  The other night in NY Bill Kristol said that delegitimization of Israel is an existential threat up there with Iran. Actually it may be the principal threat to the endurance of the Jewish state. There is a worldwide campaign to delegitimize Israel-- and a worldwide campaign to breathe new life into the brand. Marc ...
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• Biden meets major Israel lobby group at White House

  
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  Move along now. Nothin goin on here. From Zeke Miller at Buzzfeed Politics , yesterday: WH: Biden met today at the White House with representatives of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. And here is MJ Rosenberg saying that the three black politicians who lately broke with ...
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• Latest video’d settler shooting could defuse third rail in US discourse

  
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  Yesterday Annie posted on the shocking settler attack on unarmed Palestinians in Asira al-Qibliya in the occupied West Bank, with Israeli soldiers standing by. Yossi Gurvitz notes the international attention to the incident and says that it should lead to removing the Israeli Defense Forces from the West Bank and ...
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• Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I

  
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  Every time I go into the Jewish community to hear a discussion of the issue, I am reminded that the Jewish community on its own is incapable of moving forward. This week I am still reeling from seeing Bill Kristol hold forth at a debate at Bnai Jeshurun synagogue on the Upper West Side last Tuesday [a short portion of ...
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• Neocons in Washington Post: Military strike on Iran would ‘calm nerves in the region’

  
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  The Washington Post seems to think that the United States is not in enough overseas wars. It runs a piece by Matthew Kroenig and Jamie Fly urging us to pursue the military option with Iran. "On Iran, it’s time for Obama to set clear lines for military action." The excerpt below includes the shocking claim in my ...
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• US 60 Minutes profiles the Tel Aviv bubble (and Palestinians get barely mentioned)

  
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  After the show’s recent coverage of Israeli apartheid against Christians in Palestine caused a massive stir, it’s hard not to see this latest piece as a way of kissing and making up with the Zionist lobby. Despite the fact that the story features Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy telling US viewers that the Tel Aviv ...
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• Feeling the hate in Long Island

  
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  Last month a poll showed that 62 percent of American Jews plan to vote for Obama, down significantly from the 78 percent who said they voted for him in 08. This decline is one reason Obamas White House site has a whole Jewish pander page. Mitt Romney obviously feels that he can take more Jewish voters from Obama-- ...
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• New US demographics make Israel’s demographic fears seem all the more prehistoric

  
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  It was a big story the other day when demographers reading the census data reported that today in the U.S., births of ethnic and racial minorities have surpassed white American births. I think the trend has clear implications for US support for Israel, whose advocates routinely speak about a demographic "threat" -- ...
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• BBC Or Norman Finkelstein: Who is More Despicable?

  
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  Just the introductory statement for the BBC’s Hardtalk program reveals the agenda behind its interview with anti-Israel Professor Norman Finkelstein: American presidents have long been criticised for being too in thrall to the Jewish lobby. That American Jews influence US foreign policy and that explains ...
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• Beinart warns Jews that not talking to Palestinians and anti-Zionists ‘makes us stupid’

  
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  Watch live streaming video from tabletmagazine at livestream.com Last night Peter Beinart, the savior of liberal Zionism, and Daniel Gordis, a rightwing Zionist, debated Beinarts book in a Jewish space at Columbia University in New York. Tablet sponsored the event (though writers associated with the publication ...
  3 weeks ago

• Situation for Palestinian Hunger Strikers grows more and more dire– 2 at death’s door

  
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  Hunger Strike & Prisoner News Gravely ill Palestinian hunger striker faints in court as Israeli judges sentence him to slow death, Ali Abunimah Two days after doctors warned that hunger strikers Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh are at immediate risk of death, and being denied necessary medical treatment, the ...
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