Raz Steinmetz, 53, was behind Kushner deals; his uncle, billionaire diamond dealer Beny Steinmetz, is under scrutiny by law enforcement in four countries – his lawyer is Alan Dershowitz; Kushner has traveled repeatedly to Israel, where Kushner Companies have taken out at least four loans from Israel’s largest bank…
Consortium News: As Official Washington fumes about Russia-gate, Israel’s far more significant political-influence-and-propaganda campaigns are ignored… The October Surprise… In some European circles, the neocons are described as “Israel’s American agents”…
A MUST READ: Robert Parry writes in Consortium News that the neocons, architects of the Iraq War, are counting on Democrats and liberals to be the foot soldiers in the new neocon campaign to push Trump into more “regime change” wars. As part of this they’re hyping evidence-free allegations that Russia colluded with Trump’s team to rig the U.S. election, and pushing for a US invasion of Syria…
Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.
This new think tank aims to change fundamental tenets of the Jewish state – starting with the Israel Defense Forces’ Code of Ethics: to see war not as a necessary evil, but as an opportunity for growth. The IDF’s [alleged] emphasis on morality and human rights is no longer relevant.
A Drop Site investigation reveals the highest paid employees of the Israeli group running the infamous pro-Israel doxxing site.
Israel has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches.
A global campaign led by churches and an Islamic center across 15 U.S. states is sending hundreds of solidarity postcards to female Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, but Israeli prison authorities are blocking them from being delivered.
How a cozy and cleverly-constructed network of Israel partisans has been using thinktanks to influence U.S. policies
It is easier to start than end wars, but this one appears to have run its course. The larger question is whether there will be a reckoning for Israel and the central role it played in this fiasco.