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  • Israel may annex West Bank territory if no progress with PA
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jerusalem, Sept 28 (PTI) Israel may annex parts of West Bank territory, drawing borders unilaterally, if the current diplomatic deadlock with the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues, a close confidante of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned today.
    "If we see that the standstill continues despite the fact that it is a standstill in a diplomatic situation which is ’easy on Israel’, there may be room to consider turning disengagement into a strategy," Eyal Arad, a senior strategy advisor to (…)

  • ’Israel will take out Iran’s nuke facilities if US does not’
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington, Sep 30 (PTI) If Washington and its allies do not stop Iran’s nuclear programmes by force if necessary, Israel will, three Israeli legislators visiting the US have warned. "Israel will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. We feel we are obliged to warn our friends that Israel should not be pushed into a situation where we see no other solution but to act unilaterally against Iran," said Yosef Lapid, head of the Shinui Party.
    Lapid and his colleagues Yuval (…)

  • Larry Franklin to testify against two former AIPAC officials
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Shmuel Rosner
    WASHINGTON - Former Pentagon employee Larry Franklin has struck a deal with prosecutors, and plans to plead guilty next week to a number of charges against him.
    Franklin was indicted in June on charges of leaking classified material - including data about potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq - to two members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and an Israeli official.
    Franklin will testify against former AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith (…)

  • Portrait of a neo-con
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the United States and the world look back over the events of the past three years, events triggered by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it is worth taking a close look at the under secretary of defense for policy, one of the architects of the "war on terror" and the invasion of Iraq.
    Douglas Feith is the No 3 civilian in the George W Bush administration’s Department of Defense (DoD), under Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Under Secretary for Policy Feith had previously (…)

  • Permanent Occupation
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you are inclined to believe the president, we will be in Iraq, in his words “as long as necessary, and not a day longer.” Members of the Bush administration, including the president, have been at pains to dispel any notion that they have plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq.
    On April 13, 2004, President Bush said, “As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation and neither does America.”
    On February 17, 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald (…)

  • British Terrorism in Iraq
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 30, 2005
    By Dr. Elias Akleh
    It had been long known to the Iraqis, to the Arabs, and to all Moslems in countries bordering Iraq that the majority of the terrorist attacks in Iraq, especially car bombing, are perpetrated by covert British, American, and Israeli operatives. It is also well known to them that the terrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi and his “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” are just inventions of the coalition forces to justify their existence. More and more evidences are coming out (…)

  • Who’s the terroist, again?
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Over the Pentagon’s objections, a federal district judge has ordered the release of Abu Ghraib photographs and videotapes that the Pentagon has been keeping secret from the American people. U.S. Senators who have viewed the material expressed shock and disgust at what they saw, which is saying a lot.
    The government claims that disclosure of the materials will incite terrorist actions against Americans.
    What?
    Wait a minute! I thought the government’s position was that terrorists hate (…)

  • Video: Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.? Part 1
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [grab it fast before they censor it]
    BRIT HUME, HOST: It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence. At first, Israeli leaders claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation, but later took responsibility for his work.
    Now Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in (…)

  • AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell
    September 30, 2005 AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell Pentagon analyst plea bargains, threatens to expose Israel’s Washington cabal by Justin Raimondo
    The plea bargain struck by former Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin – charged with five counts of handing over classified information to officials of a pro-Israel lobbying group, who passed it on to Israeli diplomatic personnel – has delivered a body blow to the defense of the two (…)

  • Israel will stand by DeLay (George Washington Rolls in his grave)
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [see 1996 Israeli policy paper & then a word from an American revolutionary - George Washington]
    WASHINGTON - The first public appearance of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) after being indicted and forced to leave his leadership position was at Wednesday night’s dinner hosted by "Stand for Israel," a group of Israel-supporting evangelical Christians and Jews led by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein.
    "It’s really good to be here among so many old friends and brothers and sisters in the cause for (…)