Intifada Palestine

by Rupert Cornwell
Out of America: Perhaps no more than a dozen out of more than 400 Representatives are pro-Palestinian

Russia Today
How much of a hand does the Israel lobby really have in the US presidential campaign? Is its role overestimated? Is there danger in Netanyahu’s meddling in domestic American politics? And are American Jews monolithic in their support for US policy towards Israel?

MJ Rosenberg
United States Congress, which gets its marching orders on Middle East policy from the lobby – which, in turn, gets its marching orders from Binyamin Netanyahu – is rushing to do what it is told. If only Congress addressed joblessness at home with the same alacrity.

by Jonathan Cook
The Prawer plan, named for Ehud Prawer, the head of planning policy in Netanyahu’s office, is intended as the coup de grace of the Israeli government’s efforts to strip the Bedouin of most of their ancestral lands.

by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
You would think that this obsession with Israel and its 1967 borders is pretty crazy in an election for someone to represent the interests of parts New York City. aren’t there numerous other issues, vital to the health of the nation, such as the federal budget and deficit, the fate of Medicare and Social Security, etc.