SUBJECT: War With Iran

We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel’s leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state of Israel. This can be stopped, but only if you move quickly to preempt an Israeli attack by publicly condemning such a move before it happens.

The Economist:The role of the media; "It has conquered the American House of Representatives, too, which voted on January 9th by 390-5 for a bill declaring "unwavering commitment" to Israel. " "Israel is now better prepared. The tactics it deploys on the media front...

The population of Gaza is completely fenced in, and for the last three weeks - since the start of Israel's air, sea and then land assaults - there has been no escape route, no possible exist from the Israeli assault. More than 1,000 Palestinians have already been...

As Bob Ostertag perceptively writes at Huffington Post: ' Steven Erlanger's lead on a front page story in the New York Times today ... went on at great length rationalizing Israeli conduct during their assault on Gaza. It ran the same day that Israel hit a fourth UN...

America's "Dog in the Fight" Part IX of a Series on Securing Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp Beirut August 2, 2010 For months as Lebanon’s historic debate over basic civil rights for Palestinian refugees has unfolded,...

Survival instinct or Jewish paranoia? Avigail Abarbanel, The Electronic Intifada, 18 January 2009 In late 2002 Yonatan Shapira, a former Israeli Black Hawk helicopter pilot and a few of his fellow pilots published the Pilots' Letter in which they stated: We, veteran...

US Jewish "peace" lobby isolated on Gaza Daniel Luban, The Electronic Intifada, 18 January 2009 WASHINGTON (IPS) - The three-week-old war in Gaza -- halted Saturday by an Israeli ceasefire -- has had a polarizing effect on the United States Jewish community, resulting...

Israel’s dogs of war A Defining Moment for the Human Rights Movement Sonja Karkar CounterPunch January 2-4, 2009 Israel's dogs of war have been baying for blood for some time now. They have sniffed their prey with ravenous lust as if they have been the ones starved of...

The back-of-the-envelope history of the Anti-Defamation League

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY The Wall Street Journal published the op-ed below by UC Hastings professor George Bisharat on Saturday.  Bisharat explains why Israel's assault on Gaza is against international law and why individual Israeli political and military leaders could...