Ask Not What Israel Can Do For America… By Grant F. Smith Diving into historian Michael Oren’s Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide—his first-ever book written as a personal narrative—initially seems to…
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Leading Bibi’s Army in the War for Washington
Let’s call it from now on the United States of Israel. Because many times when someone looks at the relations between Israel and the United States, one might ask, who is really the…
US Still Won’t Confirm Israeli Nukes
Retired Gen. (and former CIA Director) David Petraeus “who despite recent scandals is (according to CNN) still advising the White House†was asked at a recent Aspen Institute event about Israel’s nuclear weapons…
Of weapons programs in Iran and Israel, and the need for journalists to report on both
…Similarly, there has been little coverage of documents from 1969 that were declassified a year ago; these documents show that the United States–at that moment in time–was quietly working to prevent Israel from acquiring…
Poll: Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program Should be Acknowledged and Inspected
Nearly 65 percent of Americans believe Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program should be officially acknowledged. Almost 55 percent believe the program should be subject to international inspections. The IRmep poll, with a…
Israel Junkets Pump Disinformation Into Congress
AIPAC’s AIEF Briefing Book Leaked An American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) briefing book (PDF) from a December 2014 congressional staff junket to Israel may be the first piece of “educational” information ever to leak…
Israel Junkets Pump Disinformation Into Congress
AIPAC’s AIEF Briefing Book Leaked An American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) briefing book (PDF) from a December 2014 congressional staff junket to Israel may be the first piece of “educational” information ever to leak…
The Israel Lobby: Is It Good for the US? Is It Good for Israel? (YouTube playlist)
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End of Israeli ‘Nuclear Ambiguity’ Good For Peace
Can also benefit reporting, public policy debate and taxpayers An Israeli-conceived, U.S.-enforced farce masquerading as “grand strategy” is finally dead. For years the Israeli government refused to confirm or deny its nuclear…
Israel allowed for the release of a document detailing past nuclear weapons work
Last month, the United States released documentation from 1987 of its assessment of Israel’s nuclear weapons capabilities at the time, required to do so by law after receiving a request filed under…
CIA Sued for “Thousands” of Files on Israeli Theft of U.S. Weapons-Grade Uranium
Special Report By Grant F. Smith On Sept. 10, 1968 an elite Israeli covert operations team visited the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, PA at the invitation of its…
Israel Should Pay for Weapons-Grade Uranium Smuggling Site Cleanup in PA- IRmep Lawsuit
A federal lawsuit seeks disclosure of thousands of Central Intelligence Agency files revealing why the CIA is convinced that Israel stole enough U.S. government-owned weapons-grade uranium in the 1960’s to manufacture over…
Revealing Israel’s Nuclear Secrets: The Pentagon Declassifies a Surprising 1987 Report
In early February, the Pentagon declassified a 386-page report from 1987, exposing for the first time ever the actual depth of top-secret military cooperation between the United States and Israel–including, amazingly, information…
Don’t Blame Obama for Data on Israel’s Nukes
…ALAS, ALL OF THE SPECULATION is based on falsehoods. Obama had no hand in the release and the report wasn’t classified. In January, FederalCourt Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington ordered the Defense Department…
CIA Documents Sought on 1960’s Transfer of Enriched Uranium From U.S. to Israel
In the depths of the Cold War, a legendary Israeli spy made a visit to a Pennsylvania plant that processed government-supplied U-235 uranium into fuel for the U.S. Navy. Around the same…
US Confirmed Existence of Israeli H-Bomb Program in 1987
The 1987 report’s confirmation of Israel’s advanced nuclear weapons program should have immediately triggered a cutoff in all U.S. aid to Israel under the Symington and Glenn Amendments to the US Foreign…
DOD Report Details Israel’s Quest for Hydrogen Bomb
In the midst of controversy over the Israeli prime minister’s plans to address Congress next month, a researcher has won the release of a decades-old Defense Department report detailing the U.S. government’s…
Obama, what about Israel’s nuclear arsenal?
It is disappointing, if not disturbing, that US President Barack Obama avoided airing any views about the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict in an hour-long interview about US foreign policy issues with CNN’s much-respected…
New details on Israel’s nuclear weapons, Netanyahu’s role in krytron smuggling
Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints on Pacifica radio interviews Grant F. Smith on the newly released report “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations.” Interview follows the Corries and Gareth Porter on…