Least we forget the spy trial!
AIPAC 'Spy' Trial Delayed Again
"Anyone who cares about national security should be concerned about this," said Justin Raimondo, investigative journalist and co-founder of the libertarian Antiwar.com, who sees Rosen, Weissman and Franklin, the last now doing a 12-year sentence for disseminating classified information — as part of a broader effort on behalf of pro-Israel forces in Washington to push the U.S. toward a confrontation with Iran. According to reports, the national defense information pilfered by Franklin and shared by Rosen and Weissman mostly concerned U.S. policy with Iran.
Why isn't this getting more play, especially since all our candidates keep beating the war drums about Iran...haven't we been here before? Where exactly are they getting their Iranian talking points?
Former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employees Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman were charged in 2005 with passing along to media, colleagues and Israeli officials in the U.S. classified intelligence gleaned from now-convicted former Pentagon Iran analyst Larry Franklin.
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Opinions like these have drawn rebuke and charges of anti-Semitism from people like Abe Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who told Jewish Week magazine that framing the case as one of "Jews spying in America on behalf of Israel" is "classical anti-Semitic form."
He and others say the case has reinforced the image that AIPAC — the largest and most influential pro-Israel lobby in the United States — has the interest of Israel first in mind, and is wired into the highest levels of government to see its agenda pursued.
http://www.foxnews.com/...
Pace gone.....military ready!
'Military plan against Iran is ready'
A high-ranking American military officer told the Post that senior officers in the US armed forces had thrown their support behind Bush and believed that additional steps needed to be taken to stop Iran.
Predictions within the US military are that Bush will do what is needed to stop Teheran before he leaves office in 2009, including possibly launching a military strike against its nuclear facilities.
http://www.jpost.com/...
And this week, we are still playing war games.
Israel, US hold joint missile defense exercise
OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: Israel and the US are conducting a large-scale missile defence exercise aimed at combining their systems, American and Israeli officials said on Sunday, as both countries warn that Iran could obtain nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
The operation, code-named "Juniper Cobra," is taking place in the Negev desert in southern Israel with thousands of American and Israeli troops. Both sides described the timing as routine, denying a direct connection to the Iran threat.
Israeli and US forces are testing new ways to deal with missiles capable of carrying nuclear, chemical and biological warheads, according to military officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to give details of the operation. The United States is Israel’s closest ally, providing about $2.2billion a year in military assistance and coordinating many aspects of defence policy.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/...
I do believe if Israel and the US further expand their neo-con vision, the poor Palestinians and bebouin herders will all be forgotten, and wealthy Americans can continue moving to their upper middle class homes in the West Bank.
Suburbia Sells Settlers on the West Bank