Israel decided this week to send Minister for Intelligence Affairs Dan Meridor to the Nuclear Security summit. This U.S. bid to secure vulnerable nuclear stockpiles against non-state actors is both closely watched and…
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Obama Can Stop Funding Illegal Settlements
Pull the Jewish Agency’s US Tax Exemption, and the Settlement Problem Goes Away President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State Clinton have been uncharacteristically frank about how illegal Israeli settlements…
US Owes no Gratitude for Israeli Commercial Espionage
P U L SE Israel appeared on the US Trade Representative’s punitive watch list for almost half a decade for massive copycat and counterfeit drugs production severe violations of US patents. On…
Israeli Intelligence, our constant Companion
by Jeff Stein “…..But another of Mossad’s reason for being, as with all the world’s spy services, is to make sure friends are really friends. And judging by once sensitive FBI documents making the…
US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government
WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry…
Israel’s Lobby Imposes Crippling Sanctions on America — Again
The Israel lobby’s campaign against US and international corporations doing business with Iran is gearing up this week. The tip of the spear is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sponsored expansion of the…
New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released
Via BusinessWire WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC was investigated after it acquired and…
Israel Violates Economic Sanctions Against Iran
Israel’s Rich — but nutty — history The Obama administration is escalating economic sanctions against Iran. Administered by a secretive unit within the US Treasury Department, they will freeze the assets of Revolutionary Guard…
How Israel’s Lobby Challenges Rule of Law in America
This week the Iranian satellite television channel PressTV is broadcasting a 25 minute interview with IRmep director Grant F. Smith about the Israel lobby’s history of challenges to rule of law and…
The IRS and Illegal Settlements
The Diane Rehm Show IRmep research director Grant F. Smith briefed IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman on National Public Radio about the US Treasury Department’s failure to regulate American charities laundering funds into…
AIPAC officials duplicated classified policy documents before returning to US government
CNBC/BusinessWire Washington – Top officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee duplicated a stolen classified US government policy document before returning it under order of the US Trade Representative. The newly…
AIPAC Challenged in Court over Espionage and Theft of Classified Report Investigation
On January 10, 2011, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was challenged in the District of Columbia Superior Court over its past receipt, duplication and redistribution of U.S. government classified documents. AIPAC,…
AIPAC Celebrates 47th Birthday in Court
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) enters its 47th year of existence battling to extricate itself from two highly damaging civil court cases. The more recent is Steven J. Rosen’s defamation suit against…
The Trade Deal You Haven’t Heard About
Foreign Policy Steve Rosen, Middle East Forum For a year or two at an early stage in his career, I commuted to and from our adjacent offices each morning and evening with Martin…
Iran, Israel, Subsidies, Sanctions
Radio Interview – KZYX & Z, 90.7, 91.5, Mendocino County Public Radio Today on KZYX radio Jeffrey Blankfort discusses his groundbreaking analysis of a Pew Research poll of Council on Foreign Relations…
The Israel Lobby Celebrates Espionage in New York
The recent sting operation against former NASA scientist Stewart Nozette involved an undercover FBI employee posing as Mossad agent. Meeting in the posh Mayflower hotel in Washington, the agent set up clandestine payments in…
The Israeli Settlement Freeze
BBC News – Arabic: Palestinians have now rejected the idea of a partial Israeli settlement freeze, will this come as a surprise to Washington? Grant F. Smith, IRmep: Well, Washington should have expected just such a…
Selective Money Laundering Enforcement at Treasury
The Treasury Department’s assistant secretary David Cohen addressed the American Bankers Association on Monday. Cohen implored the assembled executives to understand that money laundering sometimes involves “good money being put to bad use,” a…
AIPAC Received Classified US Trade Docs from Israeli Embassy
A FBI file reveals the Israeli embassy passed stolen classified US government information to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In 1984 Israel and AIPAC jointly lobbied Congress to secure preferential…
Illegal Settlements and the Obama/Netanyahu Meeting
Radio France Internationale – Theme of the Day RFI: The situation in the Middle East has always been complex, what are the mechanisms now available to president Barak Obama to try to convince prime…