On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Command Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, author of ‘Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq’.
He discusses the redactions imposed by the Pentagon in the book, his motivation for writing it, stemming from the lives lost from the lies behind the justification for the US invasion of Iraq, the military’s general confusion after being told they would invade Iraq, the architect of the Iraq War Douglas Feith and whether he was an Israeli agent at the heart of the Pentagon.
He also discusses the double standards in US of agents of Israel not being classed as foreign agents, the neoconservative plan of ‘regime change policy’ to target Iran and Syria alongside Iraq, the allegation that the US is occupying northern Syria to protect it for Israel, and Israel’s long-term plan for setting the stage for the US to attack Iran.
He goes on to explain why he waited 20 years before revealing the lies of the Iraq War exposed in his book and discusses Russia and China deciding to fight back against US domination starting in Syria, and much more.
Published on the 20th anniversary of the first Iraq war, Deadly Betrayal documents the truth of why a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration created a fabricated justification to attack Iraq and how they did it.
The book provides a detailed and first-hand account of how the Pentagon cabal strategized to manipulate intelligence, pressure the United Nations, force a Congressional authorization for the use of force through political threats, and scare the American people after 9/11 into supporting an attack on Iraq.
Authored by a Pentagon “Insider” and retired 28-year top senior enlisted leader, Command Chief Master Sergeant, Retired, Dennis Fritz worked directly for and advised some of the most senior General Officers in the Department of Defense, including the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard B. Myers, who served as Chairman during the height of the Iraq War. After military retirement, Fritz found himself inside Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon working for Douglas Feith, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and key architect of the case for war against Iraq. He was detailed to the Pentagon as a contracted Research Fellow and Analyst on a special project to gather and review all Iraqi Pre-War Planning Documents for declassification. Through his access to thousands of declassified handwritten personal notes, documents, and Pentagon's internal conversations, the truth of why America invaded Iraq is revealed.
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Prof. John Mearsheimer: Israel owns the Trump administration, Israel is a liability for the US
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago.
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Netanyahu's Push for the U.S. to Invade Iraq Post-9/11 Has Come Under Scrutiny - YouTube
Bibi bullshitting Congress into supporting the illegal US-Iraq War
Netanyahu's Push for the U.S. to Invade Iraq Post-9/11 Has Come Under Scrutiny
Israel's Netanyahu 'absolutely' supports attack on Iraq September 12, 2002
The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie That Launched the Catastrophic War
Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they were promoting false information.
Before there was Donald Trump’s Big Lie, there was George W. Bush’s Big Lie.
Twenty years ago this week, Bush and his sidekick Vice President Dick Cheney launched a war against Iraq. They greased the way to this tragic conflagration with the false claims that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that directly threatened the United States, and that he was in league with al Qaeda, the perpetrators of the horrific September 11 attack. Their invasion, which led to the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians—and the violence and instability in the region that resulted in ISIS—is now widely considered to have been a strategic blunder of immense proportions. Three months before he died in 2018, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), a leading advocate of the war and the post-invasion troop surge, published his final book, The Restless Wave, which included a self-damning verdict: “The principal reason for invading Iraq, that Saddam [Hussein] had WMD, was wrong. The war, with its cost in lives and treasure and security, can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.”
Zionism’s Final Solution for “the Palestine Problem”
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GAZA GENOCIDE BODY COUNT
Al-Jazeera Reports
Daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict - Oxfam
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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder arrested over Gaza protest
Ben Cohen disrupted a Senate hearing, shouting that the US Congress facilitates the delivery of bombs that kill Palestinian children
Ben Cohen is detained on Capitol Hill during testimony by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., May 14, 2025, Washington, DC. © Samuel Corum/Getty Images
The millionaire co-founder of the iconic Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream brand, Ben Cohen, was among seven individuals arrested on Wednesday after disrupting a US Senate hearing to protest Washington’s policy on Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Cohen was detained during testimony by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As he was being led away by police, the entrepreneur was heard shouting “Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the US,” and “Congress and the senators need to ease the siege – they need to let food into Gaza!”
The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, which has an estimated annual revenue of $300 million, was forcibly removed from the hearing along with six others. They were charged with the misdemeanor offense of “crowding, obstructing, and incommoding” – a law that prohibits demonstrations inside congressional buildings.
Cohen and his Ben & Jerry’s co-founder, Jerry Greenfield, are known for their activism, including criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
“I told Congress they’re killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they’re paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities’ response,” Cohen posted on X after his release from custody.
The US is Israel’s largest arms supplier, providing more than two-thirds of the Jewish state’s weapons imports. The US spent $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel between October 2023 and October 2024, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University.
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, his administration has reportedly approved nearly $12 billion in major military sales to West Jerusalem.
In February, Washington signed off on the sale of over $7.4 billion in bombs, missiles, and related equipment to Israel, which has employed US-made weapons with devastating impact during the conflict in Gaza. The Pentagon announced the additional sale of bombs, demolition kits, and other weaponry to Israel in March worth $3 billion.
Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza following a deadly incursion by Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, 2023, which left more than 1,100 people dead and more than 200 taken hostage. The heavy aerial and artillery pounding of the densely populated Palestinian enclave, coupled with an Israeli ground operation, have since claimed the lives of over 60,000 people, with many more injured or missing, Palestinian authorities have estimated.
Hiding Genocide in Plain Sight
Zionist Israeli Propaganda Hasbara Operations
Compilation of related Zionist lobby propaganda outlets and media allies
Israel’s mass propaganda operations called Hasbara Project.
Starting at least since the 1980’s under the neoconservative Reagan administration and beyond, Israeli elites and their supporters both in Israel and deep within the US demorepublican national security deep state have thoroughly integrated Zionist Israel’s foreign and military industrial complex into the US national security institutions including think tanks, universities, political action campaigns and the mainstream mass media, MSM, including news, Hollywood, and other cultural institutions that continuously and uncritically provide supportive propaganda under Israel’s mass propaganda operations called Hasbara Project.
The public diplomacy [, aka, propaganda] of Israel, or hasbara, includes mass communication and individual interaction with foreign nationals through social and traditional media, as well as cultural diplomacy. Organizations involved include the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and pro-Israeli civil society organizations.
Why are Zionist Israel’s political action committees such as AIPAC/ADL not registered as foreign agents while annually pouring in multi-millions in the bank accounts of American politicians, presidents, representatives and policymakers who make and shape US forever war policies?
The outcome of this long close institutional relationship begs the question: Who influencing who and why and to what end?
The art of deception: How Israel uses ‘hasbara’ to whitewash its crimes
Israel’s Disinformation Apparatus: A Key Weapon in its Arsenal
Disinformation is being produced at industrial scale by official Israeli sources to justify its ongoing genocide in Gaza. Journalists and open-source intelligence analysts have only added fuel to this fire of Palestinian dehumanization by propping up the false news without necessary scrutiny. In his latest policy brief, Tariq Kenney-Shawa delves into Israel’s information warfare tactics, exploring how these efforts have contributed to the decay of truth and how they hamper efforts to organize a global response. He offers recommendations for reporters, analysts, and the wider public to leverage open-source tools to refute dominant Israeli propaganda and disinformation.
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Earlier this month, Pew released a survey showing 53% of Americans now hold an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 42% in 2022.
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Why Endless Wars for Empire?
From the Vietnam Wars to the Mideast Wars
Why is it difficult for Americans to Learn that War is a Racket?
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”
― Tacitus
“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
― Julius Caesar
Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. involvement in the region, including significant exchanges in the winter and spring of 1948 between the director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department and the representative of the Jewish Agency in the United States, months before Israel's independence and recognition by President Truman.
Gendzier also shows that U.S. consuls and representatives abroad informed State Department officials, including the Secretary of State and the President, of the deleterious consequences of partition in Palestine. Yet the attempt to reconsider partition and replace it with a UN trusteeship for Palestine failed, jettisoned by Israel's declaration of independence. The results altered the regional balance of power and Washington's calculations of policy toward the new state. Prior to that, Gendzier reveals the U.S. endorsed the repatriation of Palestinian refugees in accord with UNGA Res 194 of Dec. 11, 1948, in addition to the resolution of territorial claims, the definition of boundaries, and the internationalization of Jerusalem. But U.S. interests in the Middle East, notably the protection of American oil interests, led U.S. officials to rethink Israel's military potential as a strategic ally. Washington then deferred to Israel with respect to the repatriation of Palestinian refugees, the question of boundaries, and the fate of Jerusalem—issues that U.S. officials have come to realize are central to the 1948 conflict and its aftermath.
About the Author and Scholar
Irene L. Gendzier, Ph.D. (Columbia University, 1964; M.A., Columbia; B.A., Barnard College), is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, an Affiliate in Research at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and a research affiliate of the MIT Center for International Studies.
You'll understand easily why the US admin is complicit or even pushing for the Genocide in Gaza.
A plan looking for a pretext.
Netanyahu presented his plan two weeks before the Hamas attack.
‘Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, showing a map of “The New Middle East” without Palestine during his recent speech at the UN.’
Money Talks, Bullshit Walks!!!
Greasing The Skids: Who’s the “Real Terrorists”???
There's huge multi-billion dollar natural gas field off Gaza.
A British company is waiting to develop it for Israel.
In Syria's Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967, subsidiary of Genie Energy (Dick Cheney, etc.) has the exclusive right to the gas!
Indeed.
Bibi's playing the "Suffering Zionist Card" on the world chessboard.
He's pushing it to the limit knowing US Israel Lobbying's influence over collective west will back him.
But to what degree? Zelensky is already being thrown under the bus. Yet, he doesn't have nuclear weapons.
Bottomline:
It's an old story: Struggle Over Real Estate and Capital Controls
Why Endless Wars for Empire?
From the Vietnam Wars to the Mideast Wars
Why is it difficult for Americans to Learn that War is a Racket?
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
—Jimmy Carter, state of the union address, Jan. 23, 1980
You'll understand easily why the US admin is complicit or even pushing for the Genocide in Gaza.
Sergeant Hollis’ War
"What's Democracy Got to Do with It?"
The Great Gazan Gas Robbery
JUNE 18, 2009BY ANDY ROWELLBLOG POST
As Iran continues to grab the headlines coming out of the Middle East, the Obama Administration is said to be quietly pushing Israel to soften its stance on Gaza to relax its vice-like grip on the border crossings, in order to ease the growing humanitarian crisis.
Any diplomatic initiative by Obama that lessens the suffering of the Gazan people has to be welcomed with a degree of urgency, especially in relation to the blockade of food and medicines.
Some 96 percent of Gaza’s population is dependent on humanitarian aid. According to Save the Children one in three families cannot afford a balanced diet.
Just as food and medicines shortages are deemed critical, so is the supply of energy, with much of the Gazan infrastructure said to be at breaking point, leading to routine power blackouts.
In order to help rectify this, earlier this month, an Israeli construction team finished work on a new pipeline for the transfer of fuel and natural gas from Israel to the Gaza strip. This is a crazy situation because it should be the Gazans who are exporting gas to the Israelis and not the other way around.
An estimated 60 percent of the gas reserves along the Gaza-Israel coastline actually belong to Palestine. Currently, British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) hold the oil and gas exploration rights to the whole of the offshore Gazan marine area, the rights to which were signed in a 25-year agreement in November 1999 with the Palestinian Authority. Reserves are estimated by British Gas to be of the order of 1.4 trillion cubic feet.
Back in May 2007, the Israeli Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “to buy gas from the Palestinian Authority”. The proposed contract was for $4 billion, of which one billion was to go the Palestinians.
However, the Israelis have been out to scupper this deal and take the gas reserves for their own.
Writing in Alternet recently Noam Chomsky noted how new attacks by Israeli naval vessels against Gazan fishermen “began shortly after the discovery by the British Gas group of what appear to be quite sizeable natural gas fields in Gaza’s territorial waters. Industry journals report that Israel is already appropriating these Gazan resources for its own use, part of its commitment to shift its economy to natural gas.”
Chomsky quotes Platt’s Commodity News, from February this year saying that “Israel’s finance ministry has given the Israel Electric Corp. approval to purchase larger quantities of natural gas from BG than originally agreed upon, according to Israeli government sources [which] said the state-owned utility would be able to negotiate for as much as 1.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the Marine field located off the Mediterranean coast of the Palestinian controlled Gaza Strip.”
Chomsky adds that “The pillage of what could become a major source of income for Palestine is surely known to US authorities” and could be one of the reasons behind the recent Israeli invasion into Gaza.
Chomsky is not the only academic who believes this. Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist and professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. Writing earlier this year he argued that “the military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline.”
He continues: “the issue of sovereignty over Gaza’s gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine … however, the death of Yasser Arafat, the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza’s offshore gas reserves.”
Chossudovsky argues that the decision to speed up negotiations with British Gas (BG Group) by the Israelis coincided, chronologically, with the planning of the invasion of Gaza initiated back in June 2008.
He argues that “the military occupation of Gaza is intent upon transferring the sovereignty of the gas fields to Israel in violation of international law.”
If Obama is serious about building peace in the Middle East he has to make sure this does not happen.
Israeli Foreign Policy
Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa & Central America.
Jane Hunter
274 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
While the continuing conflict in the Middle East keeps Israeli regional policies on the front pages, much less is known about Israel’s relations withother parts of the world.
In this book, Jane Hunter critically examines Israeli foreign policy in areas of special concern to Americans: relations with South Africa, Central America, and politics around nuclear proliferation [Western assisted Israeli nuclear weapons development].
Reveals the political, military and economic links between Israel and 1980s apartheid state of South Africa, book demonstrates how Israel’s role counters the isolation of Apartheid South Africa and undercuts sanctions imposed by US national security state under the Reagan regime.
Israel’s aid to the repressive regimes of Guatemala and El Salvador, as well as Israel’s aid to the rightwing contra terrorist death squad’s participation in the arms-for-Iran scandal.
Book concludes with analysis of how the US use of Israel’s Lobby as a proxy to do our government’s “dirty work” directly opposes our attempts to affect a progressive foreign policy against apartheid.
Important book. Please note the publication date: 1987
1987 is when under the Reagan Administration’s massive bloody onslaught in Central American helped to expand and support the influential rise of AIPAC, aka, The Israel Lobby.
Starting with the cold war US national security state terror regime’s rise 1945, up to the 1980’s saw the integration of Zionist Israel’s military industrial complex as a ‘cutout’ proxy regime to do “the dirty work” for all US Democratic and Republican administrations and their US military industrial complex, especially through the Reagan 1980s and beyond which helped.
Zionist Apartheid Israel has and still does serve as a proxy national security state Mideast regime under US and collective national security state interests.
This has nothing to do with promoting Global South “democracy”, but more to do with straight geopolitical neo-colonial interests.
Past is Prologue.
The Long Bloody Legacy of EMPIRES
1914 Mideast Imperial Map
Dividing the Political Map of the World into an Economic Map between the North and 'Global South' or 'Developing Countries' has a long and tragic history based on EMPIRE's conquests and colonialism, racism and xenophobia. [See this 1914 Mideast Imperial Map]
The imperial conquest and competition for the control over the world's fossil fuel, aka, oil and natural gas, reserves has one of main reasons for what has been called 'The Great Game of Empires.' You'll note the majority of these 'black gold reserves' lay in regions of The Global South spanning from the Mideast, throughout the Asia-Pacific basin and the Latin American continent. In our journey through this course, you will learn how the wars and interventions of the Global North have and still rage over this vital yet deadly commodity and the millions killed to control it for profits.
From the Middle East to Asia: Western Colonial Empires Carve Up the Global South
Sergeant Hollis’ War
"What's Democracy Got to Do with It?"
It wasn’t until our next to last night in Iraq that we’d find someone who could truly understand just how little America’s objectives had changed since Kennan’s time. *
After three intense days embedded with the U.S. Army in an area north of Baghdad, we are placed on a dangerous “presence patrol” that takes us into Samarra, a hotbed of anti-American violence. That night, after surviving the exercise without incident, we start talking to Sergeant Robert Hollis, a thirty-five-year-old tank commander. Standing in front of a poster of Britney Spears posing with NFL football players, he begins deconstructing the historical parallels between the Second Punic War and the battle he’s been fighting.
“The Romans took the fight to them,” he explains. “That’s what we’re doing here. They wouldn’t field a credible army on the field of battle, so we came into their homeland.”
Sgt. Hollis is something of legend in his division, as a fast-talking, hip-hop autodidact from Alabama who spouts off about the Romans any chance he can get. The other guys don’t seem to know whether what he’s talking about is pure bull, or pure genius. Either way, he cracks them up. Tonight, he’s getting serious, and some start listening in.
“The reality is even the Roman Empire had to fight to secure its way of life,” he says. “When America says liberation, we mean capitalism. It’s about globalization. It’s about expansion of markets. We have to stabilize new and emerging markets in order to secure resources.”
As he talks, a group of plainclothes Special Forces operatives lock and load their weapons and check their radio headsets.
He continues, “Can you tell mothers and brothers and sisters that your sons and daughters are dying for capital goods? No, you cannot. You have to make sure you tell them you are fighting for moral, ethical reasons.”
Then Sgt. Hollis offers a final bleak yet depressingly accurate assessment of the operation’s prospect for success.
“Will we win the hearts and minds of people? Maybe not in this generation. But you have to think in the long term. Maybe not in fifty years, maybe not in one hundred years. There’s no hate. The problem is one side must win; one side must lose. The war must be won in Afghanistan, and it must be won here to improve our way of life.”
The problem is not will we win, but what we will have become when we do.
Anthony Lappe, Stephen Marshal, “Sergeant Hollis’ War,” in True Lies, Guerrilla News Network pp.141-142, 2004.]
America Has a Lot to Learn From the Roman Empire's Fall - Truthdig
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Making the World Safe for Capitalism: How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed by Christopher Doran
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13169477-making-the-world-safe-for-capitalism
The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND MUCH MORE RESEARCH
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East Toby Craig Jones, The Journal of American History, Vol. 99, No. 1, Oil in American History (June 2012), pp. 208-218
https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/99/1/208/854761?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://www.globalresearch.ca/middle-eastern-wars-have-always-been-about-oil/5510640
2003-2013: Iraqi Resistance, America’s “Dirty War” and the Remaking of the Middle East
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-real-reason-americans-dont-care-about-the-costs-of-war/
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US national security state terrorism
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Past is Prologue: April is the Cruelest Month for Nazis and Imperialists: A History of Two Wars
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
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The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory.
Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy.
Now in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran.
They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds.
This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.
Mearsheimer and Walt provocatively contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East--in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.
The lobby's influence also affects America's relationship with important allies and increases dangers that all states face from global jihadist terror.
Writing in The New York Review of Books , Michael Massing declared, "Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations?' in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force." The publication of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is certain to widen the debate and to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.
About the Author and Scholar
John Joseph Mearsheimer (1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation.
Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. In accordance with his theory, Mearsheimer believes that China's growing power will likely bring it into conflict with the United States.
They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby
Paul Findley
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The first book to speak out against the pervasive influence of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on American politics, policy, and institutions resonates today as never before.
With careful documentation and specific case histories, former congressman Paul Findley demonstrates how the Israel lobby helps to shape important aspects of U.S. foreign policy and influences congressional, senatorial, and even presidential elections.
Described are the undue influence AIPAC exerts in the Senate and the House and the pressure AIPAC brings to bear on university professors and journalists who seem too sympathetic to Arab and Islamic states and too critical of Israel and its policies.
Along with many longtime outspoken critics, new voices speaking out include former President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, Senator Robert Byrd, prominent Arab-American Dr. Ziad Asali, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and journalist Charles Reese. In addition, the lack of open debate among politicians with regard to the U.S. policy in the Middle East is lamented, and AIPAC is blamed in part for this censorship. Connections are drawn between America’s unconditional support of Israel and the raging anti-American passions around the world—and ultimately the tragic events of 9/11. This replaces 1556520735.
About the Author
Paul Findley is a former United States Representative from Illinois, representing its 20th District. A Republican, he was first elected in 1961.
Findley lost his seat in 1982 to current United States Senator Dick Durbin. Findley attended Illinois College and is a member of Phi Alpha Literary Society.
He is a cofounder of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington, DC advocacy group, and a board member of If Americans Knew.
He resides in Jacksonville, Illinois.
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The Privatization Of Israeli Security
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Between 1994-2014, Israel’s security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created ‘Occupation Inc.’: the institution of a private military-security-industrial complex.
State sponsored violence is increasing as a result of this securitisation, but why is it necessary, and what are its implications? In this book, Shir Hever considers the impact of the ongoing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation, the influence of U.S. military aid and the rise of neoliberalism in Israel, to make sense of this dramatic change in security policy.
Through the lens of political economy, this book shows how the Israeli security elites turn violence into a commodity in order to preserve their status and wealth, providing a fresh new perspective on the Israeli occupation.
Economy of the Occupation
The Economy of the Occupation (EOC) is a research project of the Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization. In the years 2005-2013, fifteen publications were published on various topics related to the political economy of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and to various aspects of the Israeli and Palestinian economies.
The publications, called “socioeconomic bulletins” were numbered in volumes 1-30, as some were single-issues and some double. All were edited by Shir Hever, who also authored 25 of the volumes and co-authored two.
According to the publication’s mission statement, the EOC aims to offer a “new approach to the economic situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel” and to “provide accessible and singular analyses of the socio-economic interests behind the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
All of the publications were published in English, and some of them were also published in Hebrew and Arabic. Several were also translated into German, Italian or Japanese.
About the Scholar and Author
An independent economic researcher, manager of the Alliance for Justice between Israelis and Palestinians and coordinator of the military embargo campaign for the Boycott National Committee (BNC).
. His research topics include:
Privatization of security
Global arms trade
Israeli arms trade and security sector
The economic aspect of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory
International aid to the Palestinians and to Israel
Shir Hever holds a Ph.D from the Free University of Berlin. His most recent book, based on his Ph.D dissertation, is titled The Privatization of Israeli Security (Pluto Press, 2017).
Affiliations:
Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (board member) – a Jewish German organization promoting just peace in Israel/Palestine. The organization is a member of the EJJP: European Jews for Just Peace.
Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit Sahour.
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