Last week District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced pursuit of a bank allegedly involved in Iranian assets transfer. The ninety year old Manhattan District Attorney already prosecuted Lloyds TSB over the transfer of $300 million in Iranian…
Author: IRmep
Steve Rosen Accuses AIPAC of Espionage
Steven J. Rosen’s defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is now entering a critical phase. A series of cross-filings stakes out the critical court terrain. Rosen intends to show that…
The Kennedys vs Israel’s Lobby
PULSE The lobby’s accolades for the late Ted Kennedy and his support of Israel mask the generally unknown conflicts fought by the senator’s older brothers. It is likely that lessons from the fiercest of…
The first congressional junket to Israel
Large congressional junkets to Israel have become such fixtures in Washington, DC, that few Americans now question their curious origins. These periodic pilgrimages were once contentious and of such dubious legality for…
Why Would Arab Nations Sign Trade Deals with Israel?
Grant Smith, IRmep What would induce Arab countries to normalize trade relations with Israel? When the US negotiated the US Israel Free Trade Area in 1984, when you were still at AIPAC, and you’ll…
Bingo! U.S. donors fund illegal Jewish Settlements
Menassat The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep), a think tank focused on the intersection between US policy towards the Middle East and law enforcement, has documented the case that charities…
Pharmaceuticals and Israeli Trade Agreement Violations
PressTV: According to a petition filed by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy [IRmep] to the US Trade Representative, Israel has violated important provisions of the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement for years. The bilateral…
Why is Colombia Buying Obsolete Israeli Fighter Jets?
Cleveland and San Francisco Independent Media Center In 2007 Colombia awarded Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) a contract worth more than $150 million to upgrade its aging fleet of Kfir fighter jets. The…
Group To Use Section 301 Process To Highlight U.S.-Israel Relations
A non-profit group focused on U.S.-Middle East policy plans for the second time to use the petition process under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to call into question Israel’s status…
Subsidies for Israel, Sanctions for Iran
President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget request for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel is proceeding smoothly through the Congress. On June 17 the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign…
AIPAC Bill will Destroy More American Jobs
“AIPAC legislated restrictions on US businesses and workers already cost 100,000 American jobs per year. New AIPAC legislation targeting Iran could lead to further jobs loss.” An AIPAC effort in Congress seeks…
Nuclear Weapons Key to Israeli Retention of Captured Territory
OpEdNews A newly declassified 1960 report on Israel’s nukes underscores role in foreign policy “assertiveness.” “Possession of a nuclear weapon capability, or even the prospect of achieving it, would clearly give Israel…
Is the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement Harming America? Myths vs Facts
The US-Israel Free Trade Area (UIFTA) became law in 1985, but ongoing violations of American intellectual property rights and trade laws are fueling heavy losses of American jobs. As the US economy…
AIPAC Defamation Lawsuit threatens to Pierce Veil of Secrecy
Observers of this vestigial legacy of the AIPAC criminal trial may hope that Rosen’s attempts at securing “major discovery” will shed additional light on AIPAC’s activities. Whether or not Rosen’s filing is…
The Phony War on Terror
Media Monitors Network …The so-called War on Terror may be extremely profitable for weapons manufacturers, private military corporations, and the venal pro-war pundits they fund, but who else does it benefit? Big…
Glenn Amendment Prohibits US foreign assistance to Israel
Israel Lobby Archive As Congress debates foreign aid legislation, it’s time to remember nuclear nonproliferation restrictions on US taxpayer funded expenditures. Former astronaut and Senator John Glenn amended aid legislation in 1977. …
Israel’s Nuclear Closet
Andrew Sullivan It seems that the Obama administration is beginning to show it means business. This reader helps relieve some of my ignorance:There is a very simple reason why we have to pretend…
“Memories of Iraq”
Conference Announcement Leading Iraq specialists from the US and abroad will discuss the foundations of the Iraqi state and society in public memory. Paper presentations and general discussion from Nadje Al-Ali (University…
Resurrecting “America’s Defense Line”
Book review by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Supporters of the Israel lobby have long maintained that the reason it does not have to register as an agent of a foreign government is that…
Jane’s Harman Us
When taped a few years ago, our gal was talking to someone at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC has long controlled a great many American politicians; its website quotes the New…