Richard Falk reports that “Progressive Except Palestine” journalist Thomas Friedman is an unapologetic Israel apologist, putting a positive spin on Israeli actions that can be spun, and simply avoiding comment on issues when it’s convenient.
NY mayoral candidate Andrew Yang claims BDS is “rooted in antisemitic thought and history,” going back to Nazi boycotts of Jewish businesses. BDS is NOT aimed at Jewish businesses; it targets Israel for its violence against Palestinians & denial of Palestinian human rights… Contact Yang here…
Video of members of both political parties pledging allegiance to Israel – thanks to the Israel lobby & its mega-donors – resulting in $10 million+ a day to Israel of US taxpayers’ money…
NYT reports that Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer-turned-ambassador leaves his post having radically overhauled policy toward Israel and the Palestinians… The administration moved ahead with a raft of policies previous administrations, both Republican & Democratic, had resisted…
US security establishment: Israel 2nd most aggressive nation spying on the US… number one counter-intelligence threat in the Mideast… Israel sold US war plans to USSR… Mossad is a ‘second rate’ operation… ‘often gives the US faulty, misleading intelligence…’’
Jonathan Pollard’s spying for Israel – which likely cost American lives – landed him in prison in the U.S. for 30 years. This week, he flew on one of Sheldon Adelson’s planes to Israel, where he was welcomed “home” by its prime minister. He sold over one million pages of materials to Israel, earning him the dubious title of stealing more secrets in less time than any other spy in US history… Seven U.S. Secretaries of Defense had said they didn’t want him freed because he had committed such serious offenses…
The Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and ‘legitimizing’ its assassinations of Iranian academics, Gareth Porter reports.
Pollard was working as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, when Israel recruited him. He sold Israel a volume of classified documents measuring 10′ by 6′ by 6′ – thousands of pages that included secret information on the location of American ships & training exercises. The US prosecutor who handled the case said the damage Pollard did to U.S. security was “beyond calculation.” Yet, many Israel partisans in the U.S. advocated for Pollard, suggesting that their loyalty to Israel was greater than to America…
Israeli conscientious objector, Hallel Rabin, is serving a prison term for refusing to serve in the IDF based on her reasons of conscience and pacifisim.
A flurry of actions have been undertaken recently to benefit Israel, to assist Donald Trump’s electoral prospects, and, if Trump is defeated, to procure the policies before a potentially slightly less pro-Israel candidate takes office…