Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, DC, discusses how difficult it is to get any information out of US intelligence agencies by using a…
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CIA Fights Disclosure of Secret Aid to Israel
Legality of aid uncertain amidst public opposition On March 30 Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan found it “neither logical nor plausible” for the CIA to claim it had no intelligence budget expenditure data…
CIA Hammered After Shrug On Israel Records
WASHINGTON (CN) – A federal judge called it “neither logical nor plausible” Thursday that the CIA has no information about intelligence budget-line items earmarked for Israel between 1990 and 2015. The March…
New Polls: Americans Oppose Key Israel/lobby Programs
Solid majorities of Americans do not approve of major Israel/lobby programs, how they are won, and the vast amount of unconditional US diplomatic commitments and funding they consume. However, only by transforming…
Watch “The Israel Lobby And American Policy” conference
Conference Program 8:00-9:00 AM Registration and “Two Blue Lines”: A documentary film screening in the Ballroom. Exhibition hall opens in adjacent Holeman Lounge. 9:00 AM Conference Organizer Welcoming Remarks 9:10 AM Grant Smith: The series…
Watch “The Israel Lobby And American Policy” conference
Conference Program 8:00-9:00 AM Registration and “Two Blue Lines”: A documentary film screening in the Ballroom. Exhibition hall opens in adjacent Holeman Lounge. 9:00 AM Conference Organizer Welcoming Remarks 9:10 AM Grant Smith: The series…
The Israel Lobby and American Policy conference will be held on March 24, 2017 in Washington
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2016/PRNewswire-USNewswire/– Growing numbers of Americans question massive, automatic and unconditional U.S. support for Israel. The American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the…
2018 May Table of Contents
2018 May Table of Contents DIGITAL FLIPBOOK NOW AVAILABLE… The Israel Lobby and American Policy 5 INTRODUCTION 6 Welcoming Remarks—Dale Sprusansky 7 An Overview of the Israel Lobby Agenda—Grant F. Smith 11 PANEL: Israel, the Lobby…
$254 Billion in Unconditional US Aid to Israel Is Unique
New drive to compare it with equally suspect military alliance expenditures fails On February 10, 2017 Professor Hillel Frisch of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies staked a claim. Contrary to many media reports –…
Most Americans Don’t Want US Embassy Moved To Jerusalem
An IRmep poll fielded by Google Consumer Surveys January 27-29 reveals 56.2 percent of the US adult Internet user population prefers the US keep its Israel embassy in Tel Aviv. Only 38.3 percent prefer…
Lawsuit: Israel Nuclear Gag Order Part Of An Unlawful Foreign Aid Scheme
On January 18 IRmep urged Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan to block unlawful US foreign aid disbursements to Israel. We also further exposed and refuted the Justice Department’s legal campaign to protect an…
US Aid Package to Israel Incentivizes War
..That MOU, like its predecessor, continues to permit lavish subsidies for basic supplies – food and fuel – core to the offensive needs of the IDF, rather than the purely high-tech “defensive”…
Who Wants Obama to Pardon Lawrence Franklin?
Former Defense Department analyst Lawrence A. Franklin was convicted of felonies for passing in 2004 classified military information to two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists and an Israeli diplomat. Franklin worked for…
Researcher Protests ‘Gag Order’ on Israeli Nukes
WASHINGTON (CN) – With billions in pending aid payments to Israel, the government and a researcher are at loggerheads about a gag order that keeps U.S. officials from releasing any information about…
Is Foreign Aid Solely Up to the President?
According the US Department of Justice, it is the US president’s prerogative alone whether Israel’s nuclear weapons program triggers Arms Export Control Act laws governing US aid to foreign nuclear weapons states….
“The Israel Lobby and American Policy” conference keynoters are Hanan Ashrawi, John Mearsheimer and Ilan Pappé
WASHINGTON, November 30, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The March 24, 2017 conference, “The Israel Lobby and American Policy,” will feature three outstanding keynote speakers: Hanan Ashrawi, John Mearsheimer and Ilan Pappé. “The Israel Lobby and American…
IRmep seeks federal court injunction against billions in pending foreign aid payments to Israel
WASHINGTON, November 28, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) today asked a federal court to block pending foreign aid payments to Israel while a case examining its…
Trump’s Washington and the Israel Lobby
KZYX radio “Takes on the World” host and Middle East analyst Jeffrey Blankfort and IRmep’s Grant F. Smith examine likely developments in Israel-US relations under the incoming Trump administration. Program page Audio Download YouTube
The Israel Lobby’s Impact on America
Guest lecturer Grant F. Smith discusses key points developed in his new book, Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, while providing insight into likely Israel lobby demands on the next administration. Smith…