While Trump condones Israeli attacks on Iranian targets in Iraq, the Iraqi government is pushing back with new restrictions on the U.S. military. In the past months, facilities controlled by Iranian-backed militias known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs) have been bombed. U.S. and Israeli news sites have reported Israel is behind the attacks. According to...
Category: Israel/Palestine
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Iran Isn’t Another Iraq. Its a Different Kind of War
President Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran has generated Tehran’s policy of “tit for tat,” and the results worry the world. Drones downed. Tankers seized. Insults exchanged. Yet both countries say—and act—like they don’t want a shooting war. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini said in May, “We don’t seek a war and neither do...
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JFK Confronted Israel Over Its Secret Nuclear Program
Avner Cohen and Bill Burr are two of the best historians on the secret Israeli nuclear program of the 1960s, which made Israel the Middle East’s first nuclear power. It almost didn’t happen. In a brief for the non-profit National Security Archives and an article for Haaretz.com,Cohen and Burr explain that the program was almost...
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Mossad Chief Blames Iran for Multiple Attacks
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind recent attacks in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, said Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in a speech Monday, citing “best sources of Israeli and Western intelligence agencies.” Last week the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates disputed U.S. charges that Iran was behind the attacks, saying his...
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Israeli Minister’s Datebooks Reveal Mossad Involved in Anti-BDS Activity
The diaries, which were released in response to a Freedom of Information request, show that Erdan met with Mossad head Yossi Cohen about “the struggle against the boycott.” The request was made by the Hatzlaha movement, an organization promoting a fair society and economy and against BDS, to all ministers, deputy ministers and ministry directors-general....