Archive for the 'Israel' Category

03 Mar 2010

To Zion an Eye Looks

By Anwaar Hussain
Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad.
Responsible mainly for intelligence collection and covert operations, including paramilitary activities, it is one of the three institutions in the Israeli Intelligence Community. The other two are known as Aman and Shin Bet  tasked for military intelligence [...]

16 Jan 2009

Israel, Palestine, and a Personal Conflict

By Rowan Wolf
I come from a varied background which has taken me on a winding a somewhat tortuous trail throughout my life. There are a series of threads that tie me to Judaism and hence Israel, and to the Palestinians.
I come from what is sometimes referred to as “humble” beginnings. In my case I was [...]

15 Jan 2009

Olmert’s Claims Revive Spectre of “Israel Lobby”

By Daniel Luban
The U.S. State Department fiercely denied claims made by Ehud Olmert about his influence over President George W. Bush, in an incident that has stirred up old debates about the role of the Israeli government and the so-called “Israel lobby” in formulating Middle East policy in Washington.
On Monday, Olmert claimed that he [...]

05 Jan 2009

Gaza: surviving inside the tiny box

The Hippasus Blog
The Gaza Strip  sits inside a tiny box some 25 miles long and, for the most part, less than five miles wide. At its widest it is well under eight miles wide.
It is bounded to the west by the Mediterranean’s most miserable beaches. To the south-west is a seven-mile border with Egypt’s Sinai [...]

15 Dec 2008

Barack Obama: The first Jewish president?

Chicago circle nurtured him all the way to the top
By Tom Hundley

 
Writer Toni Morrison famously dubbed Bill Clinton “the first black president”-a title he fervently embraced.
Abner Mikva, the Chicago Democratic Party stalwart and former Clinton White House counsel, offers a variation on that theme. “If Clinton was our first black president, then Barack Obama [...]

12 Dec 2008

Why Israel Isn’t Angry

Outrage over India’s handling of the Nariman House siege has given way to a colder calculation.
By Kevin Peraino
The smoke has finally cleared after last week’s botched hostage rescue at the Nariman House Jewish center in Mumbai, but in some Israeli security circles, the sniping has started anew. Defense Minister Ehud Barak complained last week that [...]

13 Jul 2008

The Mossad Role in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy

by Michael Collins Piper
“There seems to be a lot of misperception of what Final Judgment does and does not say about the JFK assassination. The book does not say that “the Jews killed JFK.” That’s horse manure.”
- Mark Braver, Chicago, Illinois
“As an Israeli/American peace activist I welcome this book . This book is [...]

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