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2012 Predictions of war with Iran that didn’t Happen (20th Anniversary Edition)
via Lobe Log It’s June 15, 1992. A news nugget on page A-12 of the Washington Post reports that the chief of Israel’s Air Force believes military action might be necessary to prevent Iran from...
View ArticleMcConnell in 2007: Hagel “One of the Premier Foreign Policy Voices”
via Lobe Log President Barack Obama will nominate former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary to replace Leon Panetta, according to Democratic officials. Politico predicts that “is likely to...
View ArticleA Chronology of the War Against Chuck Hagel
via Lobe Log The smear campaign against Chuck Hagel did not begin on Dec. 14, 2012. The former Nebraska senator’s opposition to war as the preferred means of conducting foreign policy made him a...
View ArticleIsraeli Views of Chuck Hagel: Why the Right is Wrong
via Lobe Log Since his nomination as Secretary of Defense and even in anticipation of it, the right-wing media has been accusing Chuck Hagel of being anti-Israel with the help of GOP grandstanding from...
View ArticleChuck Hagel’s Senate Voting Record
via Lobe Log Not too long ago, John McCain considered Chuck Hagel to be one of the leading voices on national security and foreign policy in the Senate. “I’d be honored to have Chuck with me in any...
View ArticleJohn Barrasso vs. Chuck Hagel
via Lobe Log The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes Back Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms,...
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AIPAC, NORPAC and Hagel
via Lobe Log by Marsha B. Cohen The hearings to confirm Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense seem to have been obsessively focused on Israel, and on the threat Iran poses to Israel, with little interest...
View ArticleRecycling the “Friends of Hamas” Canard Against Chuck Hagel
via Lobe Log by Marsha B. Cohen Taking advantage of the delay in the vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to the Senate, the spinmeisters of the anti-Hagel propaganda machine have a new charge to hurl at...
View ArticleThe Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Hagel Problem
by Marsha B. Cohen No sooner had it been announced that the Senate was preparing to vote for cloture on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense than the Washington Free Beacon‘s Adam Kredo...
View ArticleChuck Hagel Friend Requests Ehud Barak
via Lobe Log by Marsha B. Cohen Newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is scheduled to meet with Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday morning, March 5. There’s more to this meeting...
View ArticleIron Dome, “Iron Dumb”?
via Lobe Log by Marsha B. Cohen Americans will soon get to see their taxpayer dollars at work when Israel’s Iron Dome anti-rocket system, funded largely by the US, is deployed during President Obama’s...
View ArticleClanging Symbols: Obama’s 50 Hours in Israel
via Lobe Log by Marsha B. Cohen US President Barack Obama has arrived in Israel. Greeted by Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu (who wore a blue tie that almost exactly...
View ArticleThe F-Word: Plane Speaking and the Sequester
via Lobe Logby Marsha B. Cohen The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a black hole in the federal budget into which hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been sucked and billions...
View ArticleNORPAC: The Mission and the Message
via Lobe Log by Marsha B. Cohen Today hundreds of buses packed with what organizers claim are about a thousand citizen advocates departed from various pick-up points in and around New York and New...
View ArticleIsraeli Leaders Respond with Scowls to Rowhani’s Election
via Lobe Log by Marsha B. Cohen For most Israeli politicians, the news of the election of moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran, is not good. That it is considered good news by anyone...
View Article“Diamonds for Peanuts” and the Double Standard
via LobeLog by Marsha B. Cohen The New York Times’ op-ed page headlined “Hopes for Iran”, which offers half a dozen cautious to negative views on Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rouhani, unexpectedly...
View ArticleDisregarding Iran’s Election: A Taxonomy
via LobeLog by Marsha B. Cohen Appearances to the contrary, the narrative underlying much news coverage of Iran’s recent election is still unfolding. While media attention has been diverted to the...
View ArticleThe Politics of AIPAC’s Anti-Iran-Diplomacy Letters
via LobeLog by Marsha B. Cohen Mitch McConnell did it, Harry Reid didn’t. Elizabeth Warren did it, Bernie Sanders didn’t. Al Franken did it, Tom Coburn didn’t. I’m referring to the signing of the...
View ArticleUSAF Chief of Staff’s “Secret” Visit to Israel?
via LobeLog by Marsha B. Cohen At least two Israeli news sources reported on Thursday that Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, chief of staff of the US Air Force, recently wrapped up a one week visit to Israel...
View ArticleHiroshima, Nagasaki and “Bomb Iran”
via LobeLog by Marsha B. Cohen Last week marked the 68th anniversary of the WWII destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9) — the first and only deployment of...
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