I could take issue with Netanyahu on many of his mad assertions but on this occasion I will settle for challenging just one of them. BY ALAN HART When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America recently, he was relaxed, charming and at his deluded best. For [...]

Bay Area billboards ‘thank’ the US for Israel’s blank check President Obama Would Rather Kill Palestinians than Feed American Children By Mohamed Khodr —My Catbird Seat President Obama, your outrageous acceptance of Israel’s extortion of $3 Billion worth of F-35 fighter planes along with other security and political guarantees for the mere acceptance of a [...]

LEBANON’S TRIBUNAL AS BLUDGEON Franklin Lamb– Mideast Report, BEIRUT (Al-ManarTV :: News) “I’ve got these [expletive deleted] just where we want them Maura!   Watch the 1000 slow cuts as we shred Hezbollah–who do they think they are? And we’ll do it by using 1757 and this time we’re going all the way. I told Israel [...]

At last, here was a British leader who believed in justice for the cruelly oppressed. By Stuart Littlewood “Nick Clegg: we got it wrong on Israel”, screamed the Jewish Chronicle headline, following the Deputy Prime Minister’s speech to the Lib Dem Friends of Israel on 11 November. From champion of the vulnerable to betrayer in [...]

Obama’s spin team made a heroic effort to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. Terima kasih. Terima kasih, thank you so much, thank you, everybody. Selamat pagi. (Applause.) It is wonderful to be here at the University of Indonesia. President Barack Obama’s speech in Indonesia in which he conceded that the United States must [...]

ED Note:  There are limits to wishful thinking.  I suppose analysts are running out of ideas. Here’s a striking example. By Stephen M. Walt Middle East talks…. I’ve been trying to figure what I think of the latest attempt to jump-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. For the most part I agree with FP colleague Marc [...]

AN EPIC AMERICAN FAILURE The submarine launch of an ICBM off the California coast on November 8 is a milestone in American history.  The immediate denials that it was an American test were a public relations disaster.  America’s government does little but lie to its people, 9/11, Osama bin Laden, we could go on forever.  [...]

By Ali Gharib Wikileaks founder Juliane Assange A source provides details to the American government about the nefarious activities of a Middle Eastern country. That information ends up in scores of secret U.S. government documents. Subsequently, the information winds up on the front pages of major newspapers, and is heralded by war hawks in Washington [...]