In my piece this week at Souciant, I look at the rather ludicrous controversy around the Center for American Progress regarding a blogger’s use of the term “Israel-firster” to describe people whose view of US foreign policy is driven by their (or Netanyahu’s) view of Israel’s strategic interests. It’s a phony argument meant to extend the right-wing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mossad’
Criticism of ‘False Flag’ piece is misguided and simply wrong
Posted in Iran, US-Israel Lobby, tagged 972mag.com, AIPAC, False Flag, Foreign Affairs, Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer, Jundallah, Mark Perry, Mossad, Rafael Frankel, Stephen Walt on January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Many of my readers probably saw the recent article in the journal Foreign Policy by Mark Perry entitled “False Flag,” which details an Israeli covert operation to engage a Pakistani terrorist group (Jundallah, a group officially termed “terrorist” by both the US and Iran, a rare point of agreement between the two countries) for attacks on Iran. The Mossad did [...]