US Election 2012

Is Iran really 'one year away from a bomb' or did Obama defense secretary just cave in further to Israel lobby?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 13:29

The relentless drumbeat for war against Iran got a little bit louder last night with comments by US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on CBS’ 60 Minutes that Iran is only a year from making a nuclear bomb.

Billionaire Gingrich backer Adelson regrets he served in US instead of Israeli military

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 13:04

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife, has donated $10 million dollars in recent weeks to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, has said that he wishes he had served in the Israeli army instead of the US military and that he wants his son to grow up to “be a sniper for the IDF.”

In scandalous new campaign video, Obama takes Israel pandering to dangerous levels

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 14:19

Is Barack Obama running for reelection as President of the United States or Prime Minister of Israel? A new Obama campaign video makes it increasingly hard to tell, and even more ominously ratchets further the Israelization of US politics.

The phony war over which US party loves Israel most

Josh Ruebner
10 January 2012

US support for Israel, once a carefully nurtured bipartisan consensus, is fast degenerating in the context of the 2012 presidential election into a mud-slinging partisan contest as to which party, in the words of Mitt Romney, who leveled the accusation against Obama, is more guilty of having “thrown Israel under the bus.”

Are Obama supporters playing up Jewish religion of new White House chief to appease pro-Israel groups?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:12

Under attack from Republicans for supposedly not being pro-Israel enough, US President Barack Obama has been doing all he can to prove that he is indeed the most pro-Israel president in history.

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