Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington DC, discusses Scott Horton’s appointment to IRMEP’s board; using FOIA to piece together the US-aided origins of Israel’s nuclear weapons program; how the neocons created an Israeli “Sparta” by exaggerating the Soviet threat during the Cold War; AIPAC’s interpretation of the “peace process;” the DOJ’s hands-off approach to decades of Israeli lobby crimes; and the Iranian nukes “conspiracy theory.”
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