John Mearsheimer Stephen Walt The Israel Lobby and...

  10. Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006), 45. 11. Quoted in ibid., 22. For evidence that the Zionists understood that their fighting forces had a decisive advantage over the Palestinians and that this situation allowed them to pursue aggressive policies against the Palestinians, see ibid., esp. 22-3, 26, 41, 44-46, 70, 79, 84. 12. Morris, 1948 and After, 15. 13. Ibid. 14. Morris, Righteous Victims, 393. 15. On the military balances in the 1956... read more

 2: ISRAEL: STRATEGIC ASSET OR LIABILITY? 1. A.F.K. Organski, The $36 Billion Bargain: Strategy and Politics in U.S. Assistance to Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990); Steven L. Spiegel, "Israel as a Strategic Asset," Commentary, June 1983; Steven L. Spiegel, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy from Truman to Reagan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985); and Steven L. Spiegel, "U.S.-Israel Relations after the Gulf War," Jerusalem Letter/ Viewpoints...

        I first got interested in the We the People Foundation because of their stance on the illegality of the income tax, but they are a much broader organization than just that one single issue.   Below from them. ==============================  April 7, 2007 U.S., Israel and AIPAC: “No, Thank You” Palestine: “Yes, Thank You” On March 18th we posted an article titled “Mid-East Policy vs. the U.S. Constitution” in which we said we were inviting representatives of the Israel Lobby (AIPAC) and...

  INDEX Abbas, Mahmoud, 64, 212, 216, 219, 222-25 ABC News, 330, 331, 393nl52 Abdelnour, Ziad, 273 Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia, 223, 299 Abdullah, King of Transjordan, 84, 94 Abdullah II, King of Jordan, 70 Abramoff, Jack, 161, 350 Abrams, Elliott, 129, 131, 166, 167, 214, 217, 223-24, 228, 244, 273-74, 309; Iraq war and, 239; Lebanon war and, 309, 310, 318 Abu Ghraib prison, 191 academia, 129, 178-85; anti-Israel bias in, 179-81; Israel lobby and,...

  10: IRAN IN THE CROSSHAIRS 1. For details of Iran's WMD and ballistic missile capabilities, see the "Iran Profile" of the Nuclear Threat Initiative at www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/index.html; International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran's Strategic Weapons Programmes: A Net Assessment (New York: Routledge, 2005); and Uzi Rubin, "The Global Reach of Iran's Ballistic Missiles," Memorandum no. 86 (Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, November 2006). 2. "Iranian President...

  90. Packer, Assassins' Gate, 41. 91. Jane Perlez, "Capitol Hawks Seek Tougher Line on Iraq," New York Times, March 7, 2001; and "Have Hawks Become Doves?" Washington Times editorial, March 8, 2001. Also see Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 129-31. 92. Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004); and Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty...