The Israel Project (TIP) is an international non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel while promoting security, freedom and peace. The Israel Project provides journalists, leaders and opinion-makers accurate information about Israel. The Israel Project is not related to any government or government agency.
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The Israel Project is an Israeli propaganda outfit that specializes in turning Israel into a freedom loving country and Muslims, especially Palestinians, into terrorists. The truth is, TIP is a hard right wing supporter of the Likud party in Israel, which doesn’t recognize the term, West Bank, referring to this region instead as Judea and Samaria after the nationalistic hype of Menachum Begin, one of Israel’s most notorious terrorist. Begin if you recall is second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of the number of Muslims and Palestinians they have murdered during their careers.
Strange how a whitewash of Israeli occupation and colonialism in the West Bank gets us to believe that Israel is only expressing its “right to exist” and not the Greater Israel dream, an Israel from the Jordan River to the sea, which it is after. But it is a dream based entirely on the worst ethnocentric values, not seen since South Africa was in its apartheid hay day and Serbia attempted a similar stunt to reconstitute Greater Serbia by ethnically cleansing the Korsovian Muslims, executing thousands of them including male children in the process. Milosovich subsequently became wanted by the Hague for war crimes and was tried, but Sharon, who was also on the Hague wanted list for his murder of over 20,000 southern Lebanese and Palestinians during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, escaped.
The Israel Project Iran Press Kit is now available to urge journalists to join the “bomb Iran” propaganda war. Just looking over the table of contents, it is evident that TIP does not consider Iran, especially President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with his nuclear arsenal, a nice guy.
But The Israel Project actually also believes that Americans support an attack on Iran and are not at all worried about gas and heating oil prices that would rise and that they support the right wing Zionist position on Iran regardless. This poll, sponsored by The Israel Project, claims to support their contentions, including an avoidance of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is what TIP is really all about. TIP is Likud, which means no Palestinian state.
New Poll Shows Americans Support Sanctions Against Iran Even if that Increases Gas Prices by 20 Percent.
Majority of Americans Say Solving Palestinian-Israel Conflict Will Not Solve Challenges in Iraq.
Other key findings include:
Majority of Americans want end to Palestinian terrorism and recognition of Israel before a new Palestinian state is formed;
73 percent of Americans support the international community placing and enforcing economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran, even if those measures increases fuel costs in the United States by 20 percent;
86 percent of Americans support a ban on all international weapons sales to Iran;
72 percent of Americans are worried that Iran might develop nuclear weapons.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new poll of 800 American registered voters, commissioned by The Israel Project (TIP) shows that Americans overwhelmingly support taking action against the Islamic Republic of Iran if it continues to bar International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from its nuclear facilities.
The poll asked respondents about a series of potential actions the international community could take in response to the following statement: “As you may know, Iran continues to NOT comply with UN Security Council resolutions that demand Iran suspend its nuclear enrichment program and allow in UN inspectors. Now, assuming Iran continues its nuclear enrichment program despite the UN Security Council resolutions, please tell me whether you support or oppose the following actions.”
In response, seven out of 10 Americans supported “the international community placing economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran, even if it increases the cost of fuel in the United States by 20 percent” if Iran continues to defy the international community.
Additionally, an overwhelming 83 percent of Americans support “the international community placing and enforcing economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran.”
An even larger share of Americans – 86 percent – support a “ban on all international weapons sales to Iran” in response to the same statement. A vast majority of Americans – 88 percent – support “Expanding intelligence-gathering efforts within Iran so that the United States’ decision-making process is better informed as to Iran’s capability and its intentions.” There are similarly high levels of support – 87 percent – for “Stepping up the surveillance of shipments to Iran to monitor and prevent suspected weapons of mass destruction related material from reaching Iran.”
The support for sanctions and a weapons embargo against Iran accompanies American concern about Iran’s nuclear program and its intentions. When asked, “How worried are you that Iran might develop nuclear weapons?” 72 percent of Americans said they were worried about such a threat, showing that a majority of Americans now clearly understand that Iran’s nuclear research program is intended to develop weapons, not energy. When asked, “Do you think that Iran’s resumption of research on nuclear fuel is to develop nuclear energy or nuclear weapons?” just 13 percent said they believe that the program is for energy, while 68 percent answered nuclear weapons.
Additionally, when asked, “How involved should the United States be in dealing with Iran?” 72 percent of Americans answered “very or somewhat involved.”
“Americans clearly don’t believe that Iran is acting on good faith and they support placing tough sanctions on Iran, even acknowledging that we could pay the price for those sanctions at the gas pumps. Those attitudes demonstrate significant American resolve to deal with the Iran issue,” said Neil Newhouse, partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, the firm that conducted the poll.
Said Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project, “Americans are worried and have a reason to be. An Iranian group has recruited more than 25,000 people to be suicide bombers against the US and Europe. The president of Iran says that Israel should be wiped off the map and denies the Holocaust. Again today, Iran refused to allow international inspections of their nuclear program – a nuclear program that they have promised to share with others. The American people clearly understand the threats of Iran and want both sanctions and a weapons ban on Iran now.”
This concern over extremism stretches to other areas of the Middle East as well. A total of 71 percent of Americans believe that, “The bigger cause of violence in the Middle East is the conflict between moderates and extremists, across a number of countries and groups” compared to only 18 percent who believe that, “The bigger cause of violence in the Middle East is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.”
Additionally, by a 60 to 28 ratio Americans believe that “challenges in Iraq will not be solved by solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
American support for Israel remains strong at 50 percent, while support for the Palestinians is at seven percent. Although there is public support for a two-state solution, rather than create a Palestinian state now 60 percent of Americans believe “There should not be a Palestinian state until Palestinian leaders end terror and recognize Israel’s right to exist.” Only 25 percent agreed “it is important to create a Palestinian state now.”
The poll of 800 registered voters was conducted by telephone Jan. 18 and 20-21 for The Israel Project by Public Opinion Strategies in conjunction with Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. The margin of error is +/- 3.5 percent.
Apparently, I don’t know Americans as well as the Israelis do. Here is an essay I posted several months ago on specific talking points (propaganda) The Israel Project is encouraging its right wing supporters to repeat in various public outlets in America. The notion that Iran has recruited 25,000 terrorists to attack the US and Europe should have everyone looking under their beds. Incredible.
The Israel Project reports that it recently sponsored a petition asking the U.N. to help prevent Iran from acquiring the nuclear bomb. It claims that, “84,405 concerned citizens from around the world have signed the petition. They were also asked to forward an email to family, friends and colleagues, who are also asked to sign the petition and forward it on to their friends.”
The site also asks participants to learn talking points, which are described as facts about Iran. In spreading the word, it advises to use these talking points to speak up about the dangers of Iran by writing letters to the editor and op-eds, or calling into talk radio.
Iran has been identified as the world’s leading state sponsor of international terrorism, funding Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas, as well as Shiite insurgent groups. Iran is even recruiting its youth and students across the Middle East for suicide operations against Western targets.
Religious extremism, particularly Islamic fundamentalism, is one of the key dangers in the world today.
The Iranian President is a religious extremist who believes that it is his destiny to trigger a period of chaos, war and bloodshed in order for Islam to dominate the world.
Nuclear proliferation is one of the greatest dangers to world peace. We must act to stop Iran before it can develop nuclear technology, because the Iranian President has said that he would share nuclear technology with other Muslims.
The President of Iran believes that he is creating an Islamic “superpower,” which will bring down the West, including the United States.
He says that he will have hundreds of millions of Muslim “holy raiders” eager to become martyrs.
The Iranian President does not believe the Holocaust happened and has called for the destruction of Israel.
If we do not act, we run the risk of placating an extremist and making the same mistake we made with Hitler, which led to World War II and the deaths of millions.
What does this all mean? In a word, America must attack Iran. Americans do not mind spending more for gas and heating oil. But a 20% rise is hardly the issue. More likely we are talking about a 50-100% rise in energy costs as we approach and exceed one hundred dollar a barrel oil and four dollar gas and heating oil. American expenditures will deviate into energy costs with resulting inflation of the cost of all products and services, and possibly recession. Americans will be pissed. So what can one say about The Israel Project Iran Press Kit? Daaaaaaaaaaaah!