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How Would Murdoch’s Downfall Affect Israel? Don’t Ask the US Media
by James M. Wall JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers: “Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is … Continue reading
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Congress Blesses Israel’s Matrix of Control
by James M. Wall The US Congress announced through two July votes that since the US and Israel are obviously the colonial bosses of the Middle East, the future of the Palestinian people must be determined through “negotiations” between unequal … Continue reading
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Netanyahu Panics When Folks Like Kathy Kelly Come to Visit Palestine by Sea or By Air
by James M. Wall When the Israeli government discovered that a large contingent of American and European activists were coming to visit Palestine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into his full military stance. He made one huge mistake. He forgot … Continue reading
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Israel Battles Gaza Flotilla on Two Fronts
By James M. Wall A year ago, the Israeli Defense Forces handed Israel one of its worst media defeats in modern history. Israeli commandos, filled with their government’s propaganda that Israel’s security was at stake, landed on the Turkish ship … Continue reading
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Netanyahu Owns the US Congress; Soon We Will Know if He Also Owns Gaza and the UN
by James M. Wall We need look no further than the politics of the state of Israel to see what extremist religion can do with power. The Tea Party in the US, which will determine the winner of the presidential … Continue reading
A Walk On the Dark Side Of Israeli-Dominated American Politics
by James M. Wall A once largely unknown politician has been discarded as a liability by his fellow Democrats. I refer, of course, to former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, not Glenn Beck (pictured here), about whom much more later. … Continue reading
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Palestinians Join The Arab Spring And Reach For UN Membership
By James M. Wall Five years before the 2011 Arab Spring, Hamas won a decisive victory in the January 25, 2006, Palestinian parliamentary elections. The United States and Israel had both endorsed the participation of Hamas in the 2006 elections, putting aside … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, Middle East Politics
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Why Was This Man Standing At A Podium Before the US Congress?
by James M. Wall This picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laying down the law to the US Congress is not just a portent of things to come. It is, in fact, a portrait of who really runs US … Continue reading
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Congress Becomes a Mob of Mindless, Cheering Sycophants
By James M. Wall Scenes like the one above evoked veteran Jewish activist Uri Avnery to write this harsh description in his weekly Israeli-based column, Gush-Shalom: It was all rather disgusting. No one has said it better, nor with greater passion. … Continue reading
Obama Speech Mired in Zionist Rhetoric
By James M. Wall Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu returned to Washington this weekend for his annual love fest with AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is holding its annual Policy Committee meeting Sunday through Tuesday. President Obama … Continue reading
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