Ex-UN envoy John Bolton: Israel should attack Iranian nuclear plant now, before it’s too late
Michael Sheridan | NYDaily News.com Israel, it’s now or never. The former United States envoy to the UN warned on Monday that if Iran’s nuclear facility in Bushehr, which is set to be unveiled in little more than a week, isn’t destroyed soon it should never be attacked. “Israel’s got a problem, because once the [...]
Netanyahu draws fire in Israel over secret trip
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew the wrath of Israel’s most influential newspapers on Thursday over what they described as lies issued by his office about a secret flight to Russia. Netanyahu’s first major media fiasco since taking office six months ago began with a simple question many Israelis, using their leader’s nickname, asked on Monday: [...]
Biden: Israel ‘Entitled’ to Attack Iran
Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com In an interview today on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulus,” Vice President Joe Biden said it was up to the Israeli government to decide if Iran constituted an existential threat and that the nation was “entitled” to launch a military strike against the nation if they wanted to. Biden said [...]
FEMA, Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command Partner for Martial Law
Kurt Nimmo | InfoWars.com A press release buried on the FEMA website, dated June 30, 2009, announces a meeting between FEMA administrator Craig Fugate and Maj. Gen. Yair Golan of the Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command. “I look forward to working with my Israeli counterpart as co-chair of an emergency management work group to [...]
Israeli navy commandeers Gaza aid boat
Google | AP The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said. A statement said the Greek-registered freighter Arion ignored a radio message from the Israeli military saying it would not be allowed [...]
Flashback: Toronto Star: Lyndon Johnson Ordered USS Liberty Cover-up
Lyndon Johnson ordered cover-up: Former navy lawyer Toronto Star | Oct. 22, 2003. 10:43 PM Lyndon Johnson ordered cover-up: Former navy lawyer ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – A former navy lawyer who helped lead the military investigation of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 American servicemen says former president Lyndon Johnson [...]
Thoughts on the Death of Rachel Corrie
David Bromwich | HuffingtonPost.com Today is the sixth anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, she was run over by an armor-plated Caterpillar bulldozer, a machine sold by the U.S. to Israel, the armor put in place for the purpose of knocking down homes without damage [...]
Cousin Of Alleged 9/11 Hijacker Exposed As Israeli Spy
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com The cousin of alleged 9/11 hijacker Ziad al-Jarrah has been exposed as a long standing Israeli spy in yet another startling intelligence connection between the Zionist state and the attacks on New York and Washington. A New York Times report details how Ali al-Jarrah was a highly valued spy for Israel [...]
Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran
Reuters/Yahoo.uk Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran to try to delay Tehran’s alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, a British newspaper said on Tuesday, quoting a former CIA agent and intelligence experts. An intelligence source in the Middle East told Reuters last year Israel planned to target Iranian nuclear [...]
Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War?
Michael Chossudovsky | GlobalResearch.ca A very large delivery of US weaponry to Israel consisting of 3,000 tons of “ammunition” is scheduled to sail to Israel. The size and nature of the shipments are described as “unusual”: “Shipping 3,000-odd tons of ammunition in one go is a lot,” one broker said, on condition of anonymity. “This (kind [...]
Olmert Brags About Embarrassing Rice in UN Gaza Vote
Jason Ditz | Antiwar.com Israeli Prime Minister Demanded Bush Halt Lecture to Stop Gaza Truce Vote Taking a short break from lashing out at the international media for reporting the growing civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke in detail about the events leading up to the US abstention from [...]
In Defense of Humanity: Let Gaza Live
Cynthia McKinney | GlobalResearch.ca We don’t see the images. They are neatly censored from our view in this country. But everywhere else around the world the carnage that is Gaza is being seen and the people are revolted by what they see. They see dead babies, decapitated bodies, defenseless relief workers killed. Maimed men, makeshift [...]
Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent
SeattleTimes.com Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter’s notebook. The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR’-zuhl-bah-kur) says he’ll spend 10 days covering the fighting. [...]
Israeli Wiretappers, the NSA, and 9/11
Reprehensor | 911blogger.com (James Bamford has done another great deed for the public by revealing the extent of the NSA’s wiretapping on U.S. soil, and how the NSA sub-contracts the vast majority of its work to Israeli high-tech firms bristling with “former” Israeli military intelligence agents, and in the case of Verint, a company with [...]
The Empire Shrugs
Alan Bock | AntiWar.com My early reaction to the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip is perhaps more U.S.-centered than some others’. But the most significant aspect of the U.S. response, implicitly acknowledged in most news reports and commentary, is precisely that nobody really expects the U.S. to respond in anything other than a ritualistic fashion. The world and, [...]
Gaza relief boat carrying Cynthia McKinney rammed by Israelis
David Edwards & Muriel Kane | RawStory.com An Israeli patrol boat intercepted a yacht carrying three tons of medical supplies to Gaza in international waters early on Tuesday as it attempted to run an Israeli blockade. According to those on board, the patrol boat accused the relief vessel of being involved in terrorist activity and [...]
Iran brings down Israeli spy network
PressTV.ir “The security and intelligence division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) recently identified a network that was spying on the country’s military organizations,” Fars news agency quoted the chief IRGC commander, Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Jafari, as saying on Monday. ”The network’s link with Mossad was established after extensive intelligence and tracking operations. Members of [...]
Avraham Burg: Israel’s New Prophet
Avraham Burg was a pillar of the Israeli establishment but his new book is causing a sensation. It argues that his country is an “abused child” which has become a “violent parent”. And his solutions are radical, as he explains to Donald Macintyre By Donald Macintyre November 01, 2008 “The Independent” In shorts, T-shirt and [...]
