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Last update - 14:34 11/09/2008

By Amos Harel and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents

The security aid package the United States has refused to give Israel for the past few months out of concern that Israel would use it to attack nuclear facilities in Iran included a large number of "bunker-buster" bombs, permission to use ( Read more... )

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By Ray McGovern
September 10, 2008

Thomas Fingar, the U.S. government’s top intelligence analyst, in a public speech on Sept. 4, repeated the intelligence community’s key judgment that Iran’s work on the “weaponization portion” of its nuclear development program “was suspended” in 2003.

Not that the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) has ( Read more... )

September 05, 2008

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posted by Jon Wiener on 09/08/2008 @ 4:25pm

Sarah Palin took the biblical Queen Esther as her role model when she became governor, according to her former pastor--a report that suggests her ties to Jewish history are stronger than you might have expected.

When Palin took office as governor in 2006, according to the New York Times, she asked her ( Read more... )

Israel’s senior ministers confer urgently on Iran as US masses air-naval might in Middle East waters

DEBKAfile Special Report

September 10, 2008, 11:57 AM (GMT+02:00)

USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier joins American Middle East armada

Prime minister Ehud Olmert summoned defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni for an urgent ( Read more... )

Big Three Block Iran Attack

William O. Beeman | August 18, 2008

Editor: John Feffer

Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org

The United States is in a huge foreign policy muddle in the Middle East. It wants to dominate and control Iran but requires the support of the world community to accomplish its aims. Diplomacy and sanctions require only a low level ( Read more... )

September 8, 2008
McCain, Culvahouse and the Iran/Contra Gang
The Man Who Vetted Palin

By PAM MARTENS

The bold type headlines on newsstands last week with their titillating pronouncements of “dark secrets,” “scandal” and “lies,” have missed the real story by 23 years. And the insatiable pondering of how a proper vetting process of VP hopeful Sarah ( Read more... )

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Last update - 10:27 09/09/2008

By Bradley Burston

Something big has happened to the Israel issue in the 2008 presidential race.

It has disappeared.

John McCain and Sarah Palin, who in key states like Florida may have the most to gain from an unabashedly pro-Israel stance, made no mention of the Jewish state in their ( Read more... )

JERUSALEM, Sept 9, 2008 (AFP) - A former top agent of Israel's intelligence agency Mossad suggested on Tuesday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be snatched and dragged before the International Court of Justice.

"We must snatch the Iranian president who uses the same discourse as Hitler on the need to exterminate the people of Israel, in ( Read more... )