Because most never heard about it or were misinformed Most Americans would oppose any Trump Administration support for an International Criminal Court investigation into Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinian protesters on May…
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Israel Uses Intelligence Cutouts To Target the US
From JCPOA to FTA – cutouts can cost the US billions An Israeli intelligence entity called “Black Cube” targeted Obama administration officials such as former foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes and outside experts, such…
Why Gallup Overstates American Sympathy for Israel
False claims and outdated methodologies fuel policy disastersby Grant Smith Posted onApril 18, 2018 Pollster Gallup has claimed since the year 2001 that the majority of Americans (averaging 59% between 2001-2018) hold much greater…
IRmep lawsuit challenges secret gag order on the Israeli nuclear weapons program
Classification bulletin WNP-136, which took effect on September 6, 2012, forbids covered persons from making any comment on U.S. government information or information in the public domain about Israel’s nuclear weapons program….
In 1974 CIA Claimed Israeli Nuclear Missiles Could Hit Neighbors
Newly released details link Israel’s highly enriched uranium to Pennsylvania plant The Central Intelligence Agency believed that by 1974 Israel could strike all of its bordering countries with nuclear-tipped two-stage Jericho missiles….
Author of acclaimed “Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan” Scott Horton Lectures in Washington on March 4
Veteran radio broadcaster and podcaster Scott Horton will present key topics drawn from his widely acclaimed new book Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan at two public appearances in Washington on March 4.In…
Will Al Jazeera Air The Lobby Before AIPAC Meets?
Israel’s lobbyists are working to suppress U.S. exposé The Israel lobby has a lot of levers it can push and pull to curry favorable news coverage from media organizations. These range from…
Poll: Americans Oppose Cutting Aid to Countries That Condemn US Jerusalem Policy
Foreign countries unlikely to respond like US politicians to Israeli initiatives The Trump administration threatened to end billions of dollars in US foreign aid to countries opposing recent US recognition of Jerusalem as the…
NUMEC & the Israeli nuclear weapons program “off the table” in Washington
IRmep Director Grant F. Smith asks Anthony Cordesman of CSIS, who in 1986 told the LA Times that Israel had diverted US government-owned weapons grade uranium, if the U.S. has now lost moral authority…
The Jerusalem decision: an Israel lobby-authored foreign policy disaster 22 years in the making
Philip Giraldi of the Council for the National Interest, Grant F. Smith of IRmep, and Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum on President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem and move the…
Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Harms the US
What comes next will be even worse unless Americans act President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and intent to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is sure to…
Congressmen Pressed Obama To Pardon Spy Lawrence Franklin
Claimed pardoning spy for Israel in the “best interest of U.S.” On December 14, 2016 two California congressmen, Republican Dana Rohrabacher and Democrat Juan Vargas, secretly pressed President Obama to pardon convicted…
IRmep seeks federal injunction against U.S. foreign aid transfers to nuclear Israel
On November 22 IRmep filed a 40-page brief in the DC federal appeals court seeking an injunction against U.S. foreign aid transfers to Israel. The Appellant Reply Brief details the decades-old system of U.S….
Poll: Americans Oppose the ‘Anti-Semitism Awareness Act’
Americans wouldn’t cut funding to universities critical of Israel The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on November 7 to discuss the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.” Proponents of ASAA claim it is a law that…
Poll: Americans Would Cut Middle East War Spending
But “crusaders” backed by foreign interests shape policy On November 3, professor John Mearsheimer made a short and stunning presentation at “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Era: Can Realism and Restraint…
Department of Justice says Americans can’t challenge the legality of U.S. aid to Israel
The U.S. Department of Justice once again insisted that individual citizens do not have standing to sue the U.S. federal government over foreign aid to Israel. Several Americans from Fagan Dickson in 1975 to…
CIA claims public disclosure of secret intelligence aid to Israel would harm U.S. “national security”
The CIA wants the US District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss an IRmep lawsuit filed in 2015 that seeks disclosure of top-line budget numbers for secret U.S. intelligence aid…