(source: MPAC-UK online)

Israel is controlling the American government and that’s why Americans are dying for their war, says former US Congressman James Traficant in a shocking expose on Fox News. He highlights that the influence the Israel lobby wields over American foreign policy has led to America carrying out the expansionary policy of Israel.

The Israeli lobby works around the clock to ensure that public debate on the issue of whether it is in America’s interest to uncritically back Israel is non-existent. Because these debates are effectively silenced, American policy continues to move in a direction that is against its interests.

The former Congressman further expands on this point, saying that "Arabs have exported violence to America and they have, They have no other way to fight." The power imbalance in military, diplomatic and economic force, coupled with the perception that the only reason that Israel can carry out its heinous policies is because of American backing, has meant that America is a target.

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 By Ali Abunimah

(source: The Electronic Intifada)

There is the old joke about a man who is endlessly searching on the ground beneath a street light. Finally, a neighbor who has been watching him asks the man what he is looking for. The man replies that he lost his keys. The neighbor asks him if he lost them under the streetlight. "No," the man replies, pointing into the darkness, "I lost them over there, but I am looking over here because here there is light!"

The intense focus on the "peace process" is a similarly futile search. Just because politicians and the media shine a constant light on it, does not mean that is where the answers are to be found.

The meeting hosted by US President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel on 22 September signaled the complete and terminal failure of Obama’s much vaunted push to bring about a two-state solution to the Palestine/Israel conflict.

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 By Richard A Falk

(source:Middle East Online)

Richard A. Falk – is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author or co-author of 20 books, and an appointee to two United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories.

“So why did the Israeli government boycott the commission? The real answer is quite simple: they knew full well that the commission, any commission, would have to reach the conclusions it did reach.” – Uri Avnery (Israeli peace activist, and former Knesset member), ‘On the Goldstone Report’ 19 Sept 2009.

Richard Goldstone, former judge of South Aftica’s Constitutional Court, the first prosecutor at The Hague on behalf of the International Criminal Court for Former Yugolavia, and anti-apartheid campaigner reports that he was most reluctant to take on the job of chairing the UN fact-finding mission charged with investigating allegations of war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas during the three week Gaza War of last winter.

Goldstone explains that his reluctance was due to the issue being “deeply charged and politically loaded,” and was overcome because he and his fellow commissioners were “professionals committed to an objective, fact-based investigation,” adding that “above all, I accepted because I believe deeply in the rule of law and the laws of war,” as well as the duty to protect civilians to the extent possible in combat zones.

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