Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy

Researching American Middle East policy formulation.
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[Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy @IRmep]

Startup funding laundered from Israel, joint espionage campaigns against America, unlawful PAC coordination, theft of Pentagon secrets.

20 plus hours. The @AIPAC complete history. Only at https://t.co/8tK0JkNona

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

The last day of each month we host a Q and A session with the lifetime members of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom.

Tonight! Grant F. Smith of @IRmep joins us to discuss his new course on the history of @AIPAC!

[Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy @IRmep]

Last weekend Alex Vatanka of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy responded to IRmep Director Grant F. Smith's questions about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's work in the Project Pinto nuclear smuggling ring, whether Netanyahu could be indicted under the Atomic Energy Act, and if Israel is the leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Transcript:

Grant F. Smith, IRmep: Hi. I want to circle back to Alex's statements on nuclear weapons. Um there's been a lot of information about Israel's nuclear weapons that have come out. One of the most interesting came out in 2012 reported by Israel National News, Mariv and The Marker about how Benjamin Netanyahu was in a project called Project Pinto to steal US krytrons, which are high-speed switches you need to detonate nuclear weapons.

So, you know, it's also out that Israel was involved in diverting uranium from the NUMEC facility in Pennsylvania. That's what the CIA thinks.
Shimon Perez tried to sell nuclear tipped Jericho missiles to apartheid South Africa.

So to my questions.

If [NY Mayor] Mamdani wanted to arrest Netanyahu, couldn't he just do that under the Atomic Energy Act, which doesn't have a statute of limitations on some violations? And isn't Israel the leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East? Can we all just agree to always repeat just like we repeat things about Iran being the state sponsor of terrorism? Can't we always lead off discussions of Israel by saying Israel is a leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation?

C-CPAN moderator: All right, let's see. Is that true, Alex? What the caller was saying?

Alex Vatanka, WINEP: So, no, I have to apologize to Grant because I just don't know enough about this issue to be able to give him something that I suspect would satisfy him.

Look, I think you know, but with the question certainly on Mamdani's powers and jurisdiction, what he can and cannot do if the prime minister of Israel shows up, I don't know. I really don't know. I mean, that's something that uh others with expertise in that area have to comment on.

But I mean, the larger point is Israel has engaged in spying on the United States. That's hardly a secret, including stealing American nuclear technology going back to, I believe, 60s. And again, that's well documented, including Israeli sources. People have been involved in that, have written books about it. Uh so that's not a secret. On the point of Israel being a proliferator on the nuclear front, I know US has been concerned about American defense technology given to Israel finding its ways to places like China in the past.

That was certainly a concern about a decade ago I remember. But on the nuclear front I I haven't. Maybe the exception of South Africa. Again, I just don't know that case well enough. There was South African Israeli nuclear cooperation back in the days of apartheid. That's for sure. I remember I think the Israelis detonated uh some of their nuclear tests off the waters of South Africa in southern Indian Ocean.

But again, remember Israel on paper has never declared itself to be a nuclear power. They are pursuing this policy of ambiguity. So you have to guess if they have it or not. Obviously everyone knows that Israel is a nuclear power.

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Could @NYCMayor arrest @netanyahu under the US Atomic Energy Act over his role in smuggling high speed nuclear weapons triggers out of the US?

Also, shouldn't every discussion of Israel lead with it being characterized as the "leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East?"

IRmep's Grant F. Smith and one of AIPAC's think tank operatives today on C-SPAN.

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

There's my two courses on the terror wars and new cold war
@JimBovard on our last rights
@wbuppert on losing war after war
@RamzyBaroud on Palestine
Adam Francisco on Christian Zionism
Grant F. Smith @IRmep on the history of AIPAC
Soon: @KillmerCj on the Evil Woodrow Wilson!

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IRmep Director Grant F. Smith asks former @AIPAC and AJC operative @AviMayer some pointed questions. What will Israel, where citizens overwhelmingly support war with Iran, do about lackluster American support? Will Israel launch false flag terror attacks on overseas US installations like in 1954? Or US military assets like in 1967? Can Americans be "rage baited?"
#IranWar2026 #IranWar2026 #NetanyahuWarCriminal @aipactracker #IsraelIranWar #greaterisrael

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Growing interest in Washington and @iaeaorg in relocated Iranian enriched uranium.

but no interest in location of enriched uranium diverted from Pennsylvania (leaving behind a half-billion cleanup) into Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons plant sufficient for 10 bombs.

https://t.co/KQe9EecB5s

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The complete (and free) audio book version of "How Israel Made AIPAC: The Most Harmful Foreign Influence Operation in America" is now available on YouTube.

https://t.co/hYbsNVpLPe

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@TuckerCarlson The sordid history of Israel's creation of AIPAC:
https://t.co/zAWtiATOcJ

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AIPAC was ordered to register as a foreign agent of Israel on November 21, 1962. JFK's @TheJusticeDept fought hard to roll up the entire consortium including ZOA and Hadassah. The untimely death of JFK a year later led to the unraveling of the effort. Record:

https://t.co/qGEBnhfEBi

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It's really remarkable that Joe Biden (after presiding over a genocide) chose to highlight tech oligarchs as the threat to democracy.

If JFK had the opportunity to give a farewell address, he would have highlighted his fight for the Palestinian right of return, US opposition to the Israelis building nuclear weapons, and his own fight to register the Israel lobby and proto AIPAC in the US as Israeli foreign agents.

Biden's foreign policy and cadre of biased officials proved that failing to regulate Israel's undue influence in the US was the true threat.

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@LastTrainWest JFK was working to prevent nuclear proliferation. Having Israel become the leading Middle East state sponsor of proliferation, a position it still holds, aided by stealing technology and nuclear fissile material from the US, made a mockery of the NNPT.

https://t.co/RlULSkPNoS

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What is the Israel Lobby and What Does it Do? https://t.co/1TKxZTvNl2

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Former @aipac employee @rosenberg_mj on how a @nytimes columnist, on @netanyahu 's marching orders, threatened his congress job for trying to uphold UN resolutions on Israeli illegal land occupations.

https://t.co/sfgXSktOIM

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Let's Talk about AIPAC https://t.co/YO20XAQZ09

Historian Walter Hixson podcast interview with Jess & Jamal

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Why AIPAC is still Israel's Foreign Agent

#AIPAC #Israel #IsraelLobby