http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/05-4
Obama at AIPAC, US and Israel Share Aim of Weakening Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/03/05
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Obama Says Military Force Is Option to Keep Iran From Getting Nuclear Weapons
Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers: ''President Barack Obama insisted Sunday he d call for military action to prevent Iran from securing a nuclear weapon, even as he urged Israel and its supporters to refrain from 'loose talk of war' and allow diplomacy and 'crippling sanctions' to work. Speaking a day before a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama told the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee that he s got 'Israel's back' and is unalterably opposed to Iran getting a nuclear weapon.''
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-says-military-force-option-keep-iran-getting-nuclear-weapons/1330963243
Occupy AIPAC: ''The Battle for Justice in the Middle East Is Our Battle''
Allison Kilkenny, In These Times: ''Hundreds of protesters from Occupy AIPAC protested outside AIPAC s annual policy conference in Washington DC yesterday during speeches by President Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres. The group spelled out 'NO WAR ON IRAN' in giant letters and set up mock checkpoints and an 'Annexation Wall.' Protesters remarked on the increased awareness and interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following the Arab Spring ...''
http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-aipac-battle-justice-middle-east-our-battle/1330976880
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How to contain a nuclear Iran
The American Prospect
by Suzanne Maloney
03/05/12
Four years ago, when then-Senator Barack Obama was locked in a tough battle for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, he did something candidates for national office in the United States almost never do: He offered sense rather than sensationalism on Iran. Proclaiming in a primary debate his willingness to meet with Iran s reviled president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was not as radical as it seemed; indeed, every U.S. president since Iran?s 1979 revolution has sought negotiations with Tehran. But in the context of a country still polarized by the Iraq War, Obama s offer sounded like a rookie mistake...
http://prospect.org/article/how-contain-nuclear-iran
The futility and stupidity of Iran sanctions
The American Conservative
by Daniel Larison
03/03/12
It would be refreshing if advocates of immiserating other nations would acknowledge up front that their preferred policy has nothing to do with promoting democratization or political change. The truth is that advocates of imposing 'crippling sanctions' on Iran are not on the side of the Iranian people, and they aren t particularly concerned about what happens to them...
http://bit.ly/Azf09B
Lobbying for war
Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi
03/14/12
That the United States is in such a parlous condition is directly due to the effective work of Israel s principal lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which has just completed its annual convention. Consider what AIPAC and its friends in Congress and the media have accomplished: Understanding that the truth about Iran would not support their case, they have completely skewed the narrative about the threat posed by that country. Iran has no nuclear weapon, has not made a decision to acquire one, and may not even have the technical ability or financial resources to do so even if its government decides to move in that direction...
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/03/14/lobbying-for-war/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Netanyahu s Conspiracy to Drag the U.S. to War
By Sefi Rachlevsky
'Sometime between early June and mid-August, just before the Republican nominating convention, will be the ideal moment to drag the United States into war, the planners believe.'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30731.htm
Netanyahu to AIPAC: Israel cannot wait much longer on
Iran: Intoning the mantra ''never again,'' Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday night in an impassioned speech to AIPAC that ''as prime minister of Israel, I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation.''
http://bit.ly/zhwZxD
U.S. Officials Believe Netanyahu Has Already Decided to Strike Iran
U.S. intelligence officials are confident the Israeli leadership has already decided to attack Iran, unless a significant change happens in the coming weeks or months with the Iranian nuclear program.
http://bit.ly/xLSZsg
By conjuring the Holocaust, Netanyahu brought Israel closer to war with Iran
In his speech to the AIPAC conference Monday night Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved closer than ever to the point of no return en route to war with Iran.
http://bit.ly/wVHp7e
Netanyahu at AIPAC 2012
Video and Transcript
''I want to explain why Iran must never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30727.htm
AIPAC: The Annual, Ritual Humiliation of US Presidents
By George Galloway
Following the defeat of the Western powers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the British government is sleep-walking into another disastrous war, he said. They will have to be stopped or all of us will pay for their mistake for the rest of our lives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30733.htm
Transcript of Remarks by Obama, Netanyahu
President Barack Obama welcomed Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House Monday, assuring him that ''the bond between our two countries is unbreakable,'' and that the U.S. ''will always have Israel s back when it comes to Israel s security.''
http://on.wsj.com/yjzM19
US Will Ensure Israel s ''Military Superiority'': Panetta
By AFP, Al-Akhbar
''This is an ironclad pledge which says that the United States will provide whatever support is necessary for Israel to maintain military superiority over any state or coalition of states, as well as non-state actors,'' Panetta told the top pro-Israel lobby in Washington, AIPAC.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30732.htm
Panetta: When all else fails, the U.S. will act against Iran
Sensure Israel s security. peaking at the AIPAC conference in Washington, U.S. Secretary of Defense says Israel, United States are stronger when they 'work together'.
http://bit.ly/yBNMUr
Netanyahu asked Panetta to approve sale of bunker-busting bombs, U.S. official says
Top administration source says Obama instructed Defense Secretary to work with Defense Minister Barak, to give all due consideration to the request for purchasing GBU-28 bombs, advanced refueling aircraft.
http://bit.ly/ylwCG1
At AIPAC, Gingrich says he will ''replace'' the Iranian regime
''[I will] undermine and replace the Iranian dictatorship by every available method short of war,'' Gingrich said via satellite to the pro-Israel lobby.
http://bit.ly/xnZG8p
McConnell Discusses Use Of Force Resolution at AIPAC
Video
Sen. Mitch McConnell Offers To Back Senate Use Of Force Resolution Against Iran.
http://bit.ly/AgiZ7J
Occupy AIPAC
Video
Occupy Wall Street Activists Disrupt Sen. Levin in AIPAC Conference Final Plenary: Don t Bomb Iran, Equality for Palestinians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30728.htm
Carter: Netanyahu too eager for war with Iran
''I was glad to see President Obama discourage that immediate resumption of hostilities between Israel and its neighbors that the Israelis seem to be inclined to do,'' the former president said in an interview with The Washington Times-affiliated ''America s Morning News'' radio broadcast.
http://bit.ly/y5njaA
The Religious-conservative Insanity of the American Right
By Avirama Golan
Liberal Jews in the U.S. are doubly fearful of the messianic insanity now spreading in American politics, of its Israeli version and, most of all, of the link between the two.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30813.htm
Netanyahu is Preparing Israeli Public Opinion for a War on Iran
By Aluf Benn
Haaretz s editor-in-chief says that what looks like a preparation for war, acts like a preparation for war, and quacks like a preparation for war, is a preparation for war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30821.htm
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