The extent of involvement in Georgia by Israeli defense contractors may be overstated, and most of the equipment used by the Georgian military comes from the U.S. and other suppliers. Still, Israeli companies had been sufficiently involved in supplying specialized equipment and advanced tactical training to the Georgian military that the connection...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for discussions with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top Iraqi officials, hoping to iron out remaining differences in a U.S.-Iraq security deal that envisions the withdrawal of American troops.

The Zionist agenda was clearly racist (involving the colonization of the country of another people) but consistent with the general European racism of the time that was involved in massive colonization and genocide in almost all non-European parts of the world (Iran, Japan and Thailand being notable, fortunate exceptions).

The new ‘broad definition’ of what affects Israel includes Lobby backing for Bush’s shredding of Constitutional restraints on his war powers. It is not merely regional expansion which ‘interests Israel’ but economic and military aid and sales—namely who determines what military goods the US can sell to Arab states...

There should be little doubt that the Israeli government is making every effort to jump-start a war against Iran sooner rather than later. Many Israelis not surprisingly believe it is in their interest to convince the United States to attack Iran so that Israel will not have to do it, and they are hell-bent on bringing that about.

For example, Europe reached democracy after centuries of civil wars. The same also took place in the United States, which experienced a four-year civil war between the north and the south which was spurred by a genuine democratic goal to liberate slaves in the southern states, as Abraham Lincoln,...

One of the most prominent charges against us is that we see the lobby as a well-organised Jewish conspiracy. Jeffrey Herf and Andrei Markovits, for example, begin by noting that 'accusations of powerful Jews behind the scenes are part of the most dangerous traditions of modern anti-semitism'.

At a cost of US$89 million to the American taxpayers, the US Senate, with no hesitation, passed a bill that was attached by Republican Senator Joe Kyle, to the federal defense budget to deploy another sophisticated long-range radar system to Israel.

The relation of policy and its reportage is clear in the preparing of Americans for a war with Iran, and then priming them into a maybe we will maybe we won’t indecision. Each time heated talk about Iran cools slightly, the price of gasoline declines. Until the next surge of fanatic babble that claims Iran will nuke Israel and exterminate all Jews,...

Two facts loom large in Israel and Palestine today. The first is that, despite perceptions to the contrary, prospects for peace are good. Internal divisions among Palestinians and the disarray of Israeli politics seem only to have motivated Palestinian and Israeli negotiators,...

Control encompasses everything. Resistance is called "terrorism," and legal gymnastics justify assassinations in the name of national security. Mass imprisonments as well. Uncharged victims held administratively. Extensive use of torture. All of it under the radar with a wink and a nod from the West.

Since Ariel Sharon became the JOS’s prime minister in 2001, the oppression of Palestinians has reached such heights of obscenity that an increasing number of anti-racists have joined the fray against Jewish holocaust propaganda. Some have raised questions about particular facts believed to have taken place during the second world war.

Veterans of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle visited the West Bank in early July and were shocked by what they saw. “Even with the system of permits, even with the limits of movement to South Africa, we never had as much restriction of movement as I see for the people here”, said ANC parliamentarian Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.

In the beginning, there were reputedly only seven Russian oligarchs – of whom 6 were Zionists. By the end of 2003 it was estimated there were seventeen, "Khodorkovsky is one of Russia's "oligarchs," a group of 17 billionaires who acquired sudden wealth in the 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed and they bought government properties...

The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law,...

The landmark ruling by the ICJ stated that the gigantic barrier, built mostly on confiscated Arab land occupied by Israel in 1967, was in violation of international law and should be torn down. The ruling also reaffirmed that all Jewish colonies built in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip since 1967...

There is no question that the Bush administration would like to bomb Iran. The purpose would not just be the destruction of nuclear facilities but to destabilize the regime and weaken an independent state that stands in the way of U.S domination of the region. If past U.S. bombing campaigns are any indication, an attack on Iran would be extensive,...

Israel ’s Two Track Policy Toward Iran Israel ’s policy to obliterate Iran , in much the same war that the US has devastated Iraq , has followed a carefully planned multi-prong strategy. Israel has relied on direct military attacks, all out wars, economic blockades and the use of overseas Zionist front organizations to destroy Iran ’s allies and strangle its economy.

Last week, troops focused their efforts in Nablus, raiding the city hall and confiscating computers. They also stormed into a shopping mall and posted closure notices on the shop windows. A girls' school and a medical center were shut down in the city, and a charitable association had its computers impounded and documents seized.

"Under apartheid, whites and blacks met in certain places. The Israelis and the Palestinians do not meet any longer at all. The separation is total. It seems to me that the Israelis would like the Palestinians to disappear. There was never anything like that in our case. The whites did not want the blacks to disappear.

David Shulman is a professor in the department of comparative religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a member of Ta'ayush or the Arab Jewish Partnership. The Arabic word literally means "living together." Founded in October, 2000,...

As the clash between the US and Israel on the one hand and Iran on the other reaches a critical level, the powers that be have been desperately at work spinning a web of deception that may take the already war-exhausted Americans into the military conflict of the century, a confrontation that could eventually escalate into World War III.

President Bush inherited a worrisome Iraq problem from Bill Clinton and from his own father. Saddam had systematically undermined the measures the U.N. Security Council put in place after the Gulf War to contain his regime. In the first months of the Bush presidency, officials debated what to do next.

In 2003 it was in Israel's national security interest to see Saddam Hussein and his perceived regional threat disappear. While Israel and its American lobby are not exclusively responsible for the Iraq war, it was their cooked intelligence reports and political clout that both stiffened the spine of the neocon administration bent on war...

The bill is the chief legislative priority of AIPAC. On its Web site, AIPAC endorses the resolutions as a way to ”Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program” and tells readers to lobby Congress to pass the bill. In the Senate, a sister resolution, Resolution 580, has gained co-sponsors with similar speed.

"The Israelis have been assured by the Bush administration that the Bush administration will not allow Iran to nuclearize," Oren said. "Israelis are uncertain about what would be the policies of the next administration vis-à-vis Iran."

Two American professors on their first visit to Israel since the publication of their book critical of the powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington faced a sometimes-testy reception at one of the nation's most prestigious universities.

"Giving Israel unconditional support is not making America more popular around the world, and it is not making Americans more secure at home," said Walt. Israel's role as a democracy is also not a strong enough reason for such strong political and financial backing, he said. "