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Jeff Gates – At What Cost the Israel Lobby?

By Jeff Gates • Oct 12th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

More than 46 years ago, President John F. Kennedy sought to preclude a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. In June 1963, he wrote the last in a series of insistent letters to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Those letters sought what Israel now demands of Iran: international inspections of its nuclear facilities. The [...]