Obama at AIPAC- For Once He Doesn’t Cave to Pressure

President Obama made the yearly pilgrimage to the AIPAC conference today. This is an event where it is actually considered acceptable for the President of the United States and members of Congress to swear fealty to a smaller, belligerent client state/foreign power. Despite almost non-stop pressure from the Israel Lobby, the Israeli government and political […]

Last Straw: Israel is No Ally, We Must Cut All Aid to Israel

I have never before supported cutting ALL aid to Israel. However, I do now. Israel is no ally of the U.S. Rather, it is a petulant, spoiled client state that seems to delight in treating it’s superpower benefactor like little more than a useful idiot that screams “how high” when Israeli leaders scream “jump.” The […]

DNC Feeds Into Fear-Mongering By Launching New Website to Convince Jewish Voters Obama Doesn’t Hate Israel

Unbelievable. The website is here. Somewhere in Washington AIPAC is laughing their asses off.

Israel Lobby Gives Clinton & Obama Their Marching Orders

Over at Politico former AIPAC spokesman, Josh Block, argues that President Obama and Secretary Clinton better damn well get on top of this Palestinian statehood thing! Of course, Obama and Clinton are on top of this issue to such a degree that it begs the question, if the statehood declaration is only symbolic and largely […]

Why is This NY Congressional Election All About Israel?

What about the economy, jobs, the environment, reaffirming the rights of workers, preventing NY jobs from going overseas? Nope, none of that matters apparently. The special election to fill Anthony Weiner’s vacated congressional seat has turned into a contest of who can love Israel more, complete with some good old-fashioned racial/religious politics and Islamophobia: In […]

AIPAC to Send 81 Members of Congress to Israel

This is how the game works. AIPAC pays to have members of Congress go on a “fact finding” trip to Israel to “educate” them and from that time forward, those members of Congress will know the rules; it’s pay-for-play. People with diverse opinions about foreign policy relating to the Middle East need not apply. It’s […]

It’s Time to Stop Chasing the Peace Process Unicorn

As someone who believed in the peace process and the two state solution, it’s not been easy to reach this conclusion, but all the evidence points this way. Earlier this month I wrote several posts about how the Mideast Quartet had become little more than a vehicle for the U.S. and Israel to strong-arm their […]

Flashback: Israel Planned False Flag Attack Against Egypt, Great Britain & US

I bring this up because I just saw it on twitter and thought it was interesting. Documents declassified in 2010 shed some insight into an incident referred to as the Lavon Affair and also attempts by the Israel Lobby to exert a bit too much influence over our foreign policy. Granted, this was the 1950’s- […]

Just What We Need: Another Analysis of Egypt From Israel’s Perspective

The great thing about this Newsweek article is that it is unapologetic in letting us know that all that really matters with the Arab Spring is Israel. Whenever you hear the Israel Lobby and all their media watch groups (like CAMERA) complain about the anti-Israel press, just keep in mind that they know damn well […]

House Passes Another AIPAC-Sponsored Resolution

Last night the House of Representatives passed a resolution threatening to cut off aid from the Palestinian Authority and praising Israel for it’s wonderfulness. As usual, AIPAC wrote the legislation and the usual suspects like Abe Foxman of the ADL lined up to praise the symbolic, meaningless resolution. How many so-called “pro-Israel” resolutions has Congress […]

Former Israeli Air Force Pilot on Flotilla Responds to Israeli Propaganda

This is an interesting interview by Democracy Now, which is one of the few media outlets providing the other side of the story. Of course, Democracy Now isn’t part of the MSM. Today, Bibi Netanyahu came up with some clever new names for the Flotilla, while making totally un-subtantiated charged against the Flotilla participants. Yesterday […]