Tag Archives: Israel

US Christian Right Backs Israel

Contrary to expectations, Israel’s cause gets more support from fundamentalist and evangelical Christians than from the US Jewish community

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The US Israeli Lobby

Richard Whelan shows that specific Christian groups are the real power in the US Israeli lobby, in an article in the April 2014 edition of Doctrine And Life, published by Dominican Publications.

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Global Strategic Review

The Global Strategic Review, the annual conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 9 to 11 September 2011.

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A Key Omission in the Israeli Gaza Flotilla Report

The Israeli inquiry commission report issued Sunday 23rd January 2011 defended Israel’s actions when Israeli marines boarded the large Turkish cruise ship, the Mavi Marmara, in the early hours of 31 May 2010. Continue reading

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Iran, the US, and the Middle East

A number of interesting, off the record, perspectives came up at the IISS conference in Geneva, Global Strategic Review in September 2010.

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Reflections on the International Institute for Strategic Studies Annual conference 2010

I attended the recent annual conference, the “Global Strategic Review”, as it is called, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (“IISS”) in Geneva on September 10-12 2010. Almost simultaneously the IISS published its 432-page Strategic Survey 2010 -The Annual Review of World Affairs.

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It’s Time to See Iran’s Nuclear Plan for What It Is

This article first appeared in the 25 November 2009 edition of The Irish Times and is reproduced here with their kind permission.

OPINION:Iran’s determination to become a nuclear power by any means is moving towards a tragic endgame, writes RICHARD WHELAN

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Syria

Israel did succeed in destroying a Syrian clandestine nuclear reactor designed for military purposes last year. Long the subject of claim and denial, the independent “think tank” the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has accepted the veracity of US documents released earlier this year. They show that the bombed building had been designed to produce plutonium, and was too small for generating electricity commercially. Continue reading

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