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The “Protocol of the Elders of American Neoconservatism” and the Blood of American Soldiers

August 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment

As virtually every literate citizen on our planet knows, since the nineteenth century anti-Semites have been extolling the crackpot and wicked Protocols of the Elders of Zion in order to prove a conspiracy by Jews to rule the world. Even today, alas, the Protocols remain popular and believable throughout the world, especially the Middle East. Yet, since the end of the Cold War there has been little in the political behavior of the Jews among America’s neoconservatives to refute such beliefs. After all, it was people with the names Paul Wolfowitz, Irv Lewis Libby and Eric Edelman, who “in 1992…co-authored a security doctrine for the United States that aimed at perpetual hegemony and implied perpetual aggression to prevent the emergence of ‘peer’ … Read entire article »

Filed under: Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Politics

Foxbats over Dimona: Revisionist History or Marvelous (Zionist) Fantasy?

June 5th, 2007 | Add a Comment

Forty years ago today, on June 5, 1967, Israel launched a devastating preemptive strike on its Arab neighbors that marked the beginning of the Six-Day War. The war’s outcome proved to be a significant turning point in the history of the Middle East because, as William Roger Louis has observed, “the consequences of Israeli victory extend to the present.” In his definitive study, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Michael B. Oren observed that, by late 1966, “The conflict between the Arab countries and the Israelis, between Arab countries themselves and between the U.S. and the USSR – exacerbated by domestic tensions in each – had created an atmosphere of extreme flammability. In … Read entire article »

Filed under: History, Russian History

When Does Opposition to Israel or the Israel Lobby Indicate Anti-Semitism?

March 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment

Writing for the New York Times online on March 4, 2007, Stanley Fish asked the question, “Why Does Anti-Semitism Persist?” Quoting Professor Charles Small of Yale University, Professor Fish notes, “Increasingly, Jewish communities around the world feel under threat,” and he blames three words for that feeling: “Israel, Iraq and anti-Semitism.” Here’s how Professor Fish explains the connection: “Much of the world has been opposed to the Iraq war from its beginning, and now after four years 70 percent of Americans share the world’s opinion. Some who deplore the war believe that those who got us into it and cheered it on did so, at least in part, out of a desire to improve Israel’s position in the Middle East. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq War

Israel’s Bomb, Iran’s Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part 3 of 3)

February 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment

Four years after the Bush administration duped Americans into believing that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in the al Qaeda terrorist attacks that rocked the United States on 9/11, Bush administration officials — prodded by Israel — are now asking Americans to believe that Iran either has the bomb or is vigorously pursuing it. As former weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, put it in his recent book (Target Iran), “the last thing the Bush administration wanted was to have the U.S. public pondering the possibility that Iran might not, after all, be pursuing a nuclear weapons program, but rather only a peaceful nuclear energy program.” [p. 145] But, thanks to lies and deceit by Iran, as well as unsubstantiated allegations by the Bush administration … Read entire article »

Filed under: Book Reviews, Foreign Policy, History, Iran, Military History

Israel’s Bomb, Iran’s Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part 2 of 3)

February 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment

One person possessing the courage to admit guilt for his role in producing the bomb was Albert Einstein. Some five months before his death in late 1954, Einstein declared: “I made one great mistake in my life, when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made, but there was some justification – the danger that the Germans would make them.” [Karpin, pp. 358-59] Another person, David Ben-Gurion, reached just the opposite conclusion about the bomb. Notwithstanding the role that Zionist settlers played in stirring up Arab hatred in Palestine, in the wake of the Arab attacks on Jews in Jerusalem in August 1929 and the “Arab Revolt” of 1936, Ben-Gurion told friends in Jerusalem, “The danger … Read entire article »

Filed under: Book Reviews, Foreign Policy, History, Iran, Military History

Israel’s Bomb, Iran’s Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part 1 of 3)

February 5th, 2007 | Add a Comment

Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Harvard University Press, 2005, $29.95 Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War, by Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University Press, 2007, $24.95. The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What that Means for the World, by Michael Karpin, Simon & Schuster, 2006, $26.00. Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change, by Scott Ritter, Nation Books, 2006, $25.95. Four years ago today, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell played a major role in persuading a gullible, stupefied and craven American news media and public – but not a cynical world – to support the Bush administration’s illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq. He did so by presenting … Read entire article »

Filed under: Book Reviews, Foreign Policy, History, Iran, Military History