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'Faster, Please!'
Senate report exposes key role of the Israel lobby in fomenting war with Iran

For years, I've been saying that the only way to understand the Iraq war – a war that hurt, rather than advanced, American interests – is to see it as a successful covert action carried out by the Israelis

The "Clean Break" scenario, launched by American "advisers" to

Netanyahu, laid it all out in 1996. That was the theory, the practice of which is revealed in second section of the Senate intelligence report

Our invasion of Iraq has led directly to a looming confrontation with Iran, just as the war-planners knew it would. What the second portion of the Senate report shows, however, is that we are also prisoners of the Israel lobby, which is inexorably pushing us into war with Iran. That l

activity, relentless in pursuit of its goals – and its enemies

activity, relentless in pursuit of its goals

there is growing resistance to the Lobby's hegemony

within intelligence, counter-intelligence

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