Israel's influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby (3 min clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O125hGt9qt4

AIPAC and NeoCon (War for Israel) Policy (2 min clip)
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rf16XjbOUs

WHO IS THE US CONGRESS LISTENING TO?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/whoiscongresslisteningto.html

Take a real close Look at the enemies of OUR AMERICA!
http://www.aipac.org/index.cfm

2004 Top Ten Career Recipients of Pro-Israel PAC Funds
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407027.html

Senate: Career
Daschle, Tom (D-SD) $533,635
Specter, Arlen (R-PA) 461,973
Lautenberg, Frank (D-NJ) 433,806
Durbin, Richard (D-IL) 326,671
Reid, Harry (D-NV) 318,801
Wyden, Ronald (D-OR) 255,562
Lieberman, Joseph (D-CT) 227,758
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA) 223,794
Dodd, Christopher (D-CT) 221,178
Conrad, Kent (D-ND) 201,939

House: Current Cycle
Hoyer, Steny (D-MD) $37,500
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R-FL) 36,000
Berkley, Shelley (D-NV) 35,100
Lantos, Tom (D-CA) 31,600
Frost, Martin (D-TX) 31,300
Cantor, Eric (R-VA) 23,750
Crowley, Joseph (D-NY) 23,000
DeLay, Tom (R-TX) 23,000
Lowey, Nita (D-NY) 20,650
Pelosi, Nancy (D-CA) 20,650

Pelosi, AIPAC and Google
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_politics&Number=295047621

Everybody knows about A.I.P.A.C.
What about JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs)

ISRAEL LOBBY SAYS PENTAGON ‘INFILTRATED’
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon__infiltrated_.html

(excerpt)
"A leading voice of the pro-Israel lobby is pushing for an old-style “witchhunt”—under the guise of “homeland security”—to identify (and expel) individuals in the U.S. government and our military who are suspected of being hostile to Israel."

JINSA has been one of the frontline forces in the fanatically pro-Israel “neo-conservative” circles directing foreign policy under George W. Bush.

"Not only Vice President Dick Cheney, but also UN Ambassador John Bolton, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defense Policy Board—to name just a few big Bush administration names—have all been associates of JINSA."

University of Pennsylvania Prof. Edward Herman has described JINSA as “organized and [run] by individuals closely tied to the Israeli lobby and can be regarded as a virtual agency of the Israeli government.”

What first appears as commentary in JINSA’s Journal often leads to very real policies carried out by the Bush administration alone and sometimes in concert with Capitol Hill which some critics have been known to cynically call “Israeli occupied territory.”

"But in the fevered minds of JINSA and hard-line Zionist elements, the real concern is that there are growing numbers of people high up in the FBI and the CIA and in the military who are getting “fed up” with Zionist power in America. "

"Democratic foes, both come together in one realm: satisfying the Israeli lobby which funds both Democrats and Republicans alike through a network of political action committees and exercising its clout on Capitol Hill through pressure groups such as the APIAC, the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League."

"It is ironic that JINSA should be the source of a demand for an investigation of foreign agents and sympathizers inside the American government. The founder of JINSA, Stephen Bryen, a former Senate aide on Capitol Hill, faced certain indictment on charges of espionage for Israel until pressure on the Justice Department forced Justice to back off.

Not only Bryen, but several others in the JINSA sphere were under FBI investigation on similar charges relating to their possible misuse of American defense and intelligence information on Israel’s behalf. They include:

• Richard Perle, investigated in the 1970s when he was a top aide to then-Sen. Henry Jackson;

• Douglas Feith, who—although later promoted to a high post in the Bush administration in 2001—was fired from the National Security Council of President Ronald Reagan; and

• Paul Wolfowitz, now head of the World Bank and former deputy secretary of defense in the Bush administration, investigated in the 1970s by the FBI on suspicion of passing classified information to Israel."

Jewish JINSA/PNAC Neocons Want Iran to be Bombed Next
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=63201

The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com



No cakewalk in the park?
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published November 13, 2006



"Ripley's Believe It Or Not" began in 1918 as a comic strip featuring unusual, hard-to-believe facts from around the world. Today it is a Web site for a global community that combs cyberspace for events so strange and unusual it is often hard to believe they are taking place. These days, you don't have to go further afield than Washington , D.C.
The neo-conservatives (neocons) who gave us the "cakewalk" prediction for Iraq before the war are now plugging "a walk in the park" in Iran -- i.e., a U.S. bombing campaign to consign the mullahs' nuclear ambitions to oblivion, or at least to retard the advent of an Iranian bomb for a few years, hoping that in the interim good democrats would rise up and send the clerics and their Revolutionary Guards packing.
Two Washington-based representatives of a global Fortune 100 company told their visiting senior executive this week a bombing campaign of Iran 's nuclear facilities "is inevitable while Mr. Bush is in the White House." The incredulous CEO thought his Washington eyes and ears were overstating the case. They assured him they were deadly serious.
Leading neocon Richard Perle, who led the intellectual charge for the ill-fated invasion of Iraq , believes two B-2 bombers, each with 16 independently targeted weapons systems, could punch out Iran 's nuclear lights. No Air Force expert we could find agreed. But the Pentagon's Air Force generals believe it can be done -- and successfully -- with a much larger operation, including five nights of bombing, some 400 aim points, 75 requiring deep penetration ordnance. Time magazine estimates 1,500 such aim points, or "viable targets," related to Iran 's widely scattered nuclear development complex. The Navy, with its carrier task forces and ship-launched cruise missiles, does not share the same degree of certainty.
No one has worked more assiduously for military action than Michael Ledeen, a neocon field marshal, who writes frequently about the "horrors" of Iran 's mullahocracy. His National Review Online commentary Nov. 1 was headlined "Delay." Mr. Ledeen has grown impatient over Mr. Bush's dangerous postponement of what he considers inevitable. "If the president knows Iran is waging war on us," wrote Mr. Ledeen, "he is obliged to respond; the only appropriate question is about the method, not the substance. If he does not know, then he should remove those officials who were obliged to tell him, and get some people who will tell the truth."
The truth has become an increasingly rare commodity in Washington . Mr. Ledeen concludes the president knows the truth, but thinks he may lack the political capital to directly challenge the mullahs. More likely, Mr. Bush's thinking has changed when confronted by the intelligence community's assessment of Iran 's retaliatory capabilities. They are described as "formidable." These include mining the Strait of Hormuz , the channel for two-fifths of the world's oil traffic, which would send oil prices skyrocketing to $200 per barrel almost overnight.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia 's ambassador to the U.S. , headed his country's intelligence service for 25 years. He warns that an attack against Iran would turn "the whole Persian Gulf into an inferno of exploding fuel tanks and shot-up facilities." Earlier this month, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozens of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3 (1,242 miles), Shahab-2 (cluster warhead of 1,400 bomblets), solid-fuel Zalzals, Zolfaghar73, Z-3, and SCUD-Bs, all timed to follow by two days the completion of U.S.-led allied naval maneuvers in the Gulf that Tehran described as "adventurist." Warships from Australia , Britain , France , Italy , Bahrain and the U.S. participated.
Dubbed "Great Prophet," Iran 's 10-day war games were designed "to show our deterrent and defensive power to trans-regional enemies, and we hope they will understand the message," said Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi.
Iran also has control over Hezbollah whose terrorist arm has already reached all the way to Argentina (in the mid-1990s) and whose sleeper cells, from Saudi Arabia's eastern oil fields where Shi'ites are the majority, to North America, are still feigning sleep.
Russia and China have made clear they will not be part of any tough sanction regime against Iran . They both have strong commercial ties to Iran . Tehran is paying Russia $700 million for 29 air defense missile systems. China signed a 10-year, $100 billion oil deal with Iran .
What the neocons dismiss as the "nervous nellies" of the intelligence community may have slipped in to President Bush's morning brief a subversive quote or two from conservative historian Paul Johnson, e.g., "Statesmen should never plunge into the future ... without first examining what guidance the past could supply?"
Mr. Ledeen, who acts as spokesman for Iran 's suppressed democratic forces, says, "The first step is to embrace the unpleasant fact that we are at war with Iran , and it is long past time to respond." The Iraqi debacle, along with the fading image of the U.S. as the world's sole superpower, as well as of Israel as the regional superpower, evidently persuaded President Bush to further disappoint the neocons. The Iraq Study Group's (ISG) James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton wanted neocon idol Donald Rumsfeld replaced as defense secretary before going public with their findings.
The new defense secretary, former CIA Director Robert M. Gates, a close friend of Mr. Baker, and also a member of ISG, has long favored direct talks with "Axis of Evil" charter member Iran . Mr. Baker, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Gates are now on the same wavelength. They believe bombing Iran would be an unmitigated disaster for U.S. interests the world over. The alternative is to explore a geopolitical deal with a country that has legitimate security interests.
The neocons' ideas for a walk in the Iranian park are still very much alive in Israel , whose very existence has been threatened by the mullahocracy. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will make clear to Mr. Bush today during a White House visit that Israel is not prepared to live with an Iranian nuclear weapon.

Arnaud de Borchgrave is editor at large of The Washington Times and of United Press International.

AIPAC and the Neocon (War for Israel) agenda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rf16XjbOUs

Thinking about Neoconservatism:

http://www.vdare.com/macdonald/030918_neoconservatism.htm

Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement:

http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol4no2/km-understandIII.html

Additional at following URL:

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=32606

PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY IN US UNDER ATTACK:

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060

Intl. Intelligence

WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- Two of America's top scholars have published a searing attack on the role and power of Washington's pro-Israel lobby in a British journal, warning that its "decisive" role in fomenting the Iraq war is now being repeated with the threat of action against Iran. And they say that the Lobby is so strong that they doubt their article would be accepted in any U.S.-based publication.

Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, author of "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" and Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard's Kenney School, and author of "Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy," are leading figures American in academic life.

They claim that the Israel lobby has distorted American policy and operates against American interests, that it has organized the funneling of more than $140 billion dollars to Israel and "has a stranglehold" on the U.S. Congress, and its ability to raise large campaign funds gives its vast influence over Republican and Democratic administrations, while its role in Washington think tanks on the Middle East dominates the policy debate.

And they say that the Lobby works ruthlessly to suppress questioning of its role, to blacken its critics and to crush serious debate about the wisdom of supporting Israel in U.S. public life.

"Silencing skeptics by organizing blacklists and boycotts -- or by suggesting that critics are anti-Semites -- violates the principle of open debate on which democracy depends," Walt and Mearsheimer write.

"The inability of Congress to conduct a genuine debate on these important issues paralyses the entire process of democratic deliberation. Israel's backers should be free to make their case and to challenge those who disagree with them, but efforts to stifle debate by intimidation must be roundly condemned," they add, in the 12,800-word article published in the latest issue of The London Review of Books.

The article focuses strongly on the role of the "neo-conservatives" within the Bush administration in driving the decision to launch the war on Iraq.

"The main driving force behind the war was a small band of neo-conservatives, many with ties to the Likud," Mearsheimer and Walt argue." Given the neo-conservatives' devotion to Israel, their obsession with Iraq, and their influence in the Bush administration, it isn't surprising that many Americans suspected that the war was designed to further Israeli interests."

"The neo-conservatives had been determined to topple Saddam even before Bush became president. They caused a stir early in 1998 by publishing two open letters to Clinton, calling for Saddam's removal from power. The signatories, many of whom had close ties to pro-Israel groups like JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) or WINEP (Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy), and who included Elliot Abrams, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Bernard Lewis, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, had little trouble persuading the Clinton administration to adopt the general goal of ousting Saddam. But they were unable to sell a war to achieve that objective. They were no more able to generate enthusiasm for invading Iraq in the early months of the Bush administration. They needed help to achieve their aim. That help arrived with 9/11. Specifically, the events of that day led Bush and Cheney to reverse course and become strong proponents of a preventive war," Walt and Mearsheimer write.

The article, which is already stirring furious debate in U.S. academic and intellectual circles, also explores the historical role of the Lobby.

"For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centerpiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel," the article says.

"The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread 'democracy' throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized not only U.S. security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the U.S. been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?" Professors Walt and Mearsheimer add.

"The thrust of U.S. policy in the region derives almost entirely from domestic politics, and especially the activities of the 'Israel Lobby'. Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. interests and those of the other country - in this case, Israel -- are essentially identical," they add.

They argue that far from being a strategic asset to the United States, Israel "is becoming a strategic burden" and "does not behave like a loyal ally." They also suggest that Israel is also now "a liability in the war on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue states.

"Saying that Israel and the U.S. are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards: the US has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel, not the other way around," they add. "Support for Israel is not the only source of anti-American terrorism, but it is an important one, and it makes winning the war on terror more difficult. There is no question that many al-Qaida leaders, including Osama bin Laden, are motivated by Israel's presence in Jerusalem and the plight of the Palestinians. Unconditional support for Israel makes it easier for extremists to rally popular support and to attract recruits."

They question the argument that Israel deserves support as the only democracy in the Middle East, claiming that "some aspects of Israeli democracy are at odds with core American values. Unlike the US, where people are supposed to enjoy equal rights irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity, Israel was explicitly founded as a Jewish state and citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship. Given this, it is not surprising that its 1.3 million Arabs are treated as second-class citizens."

The most powerful force in the Lobby is AIPAC, the American-Israel Public affairs Committee, which Walt and Mearsheimer call "a de facto agent for a foreign government," and which they say has now forged an important alliance with evangelical Christian groups.

The bulk of the article is a detailed analysis of the way they claim the Lobby managed to change the Bush administration's policy from "halting Israel's expansionist policies in the Occupied Territories and advocating the creation of a Palestinian state" and divert it to the war on Iraq instead. They write "Pressure from Israel and the Lobby was not the only factor behind the decision to attack Iraq in March 2003, but it was critical."

"Thanks to the lobby, the United States has become the de facto enabler of Israeli expansion in the Occupied Territories, making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians," and conclude that "Israel itself would probably be better off if the Lobby were less powerful and U.S. policy more even-handed."

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Mearsheimer replies to the irate "Israel Lobby"

Letters - The Israel Lobby - From John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt.

We wrote 'The Israel Lobby' in order to begin a discussion of a subject that had become difficult to address openly in the United States (LRB, 23 March). We knew it was likely to generate a strong reaction, and we are not surprised that some of our critics have chosen to attack our characters or misrepresent our arguments. .... Must Read !!!

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n09/letters.html

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html

Iran: The Next War (for Israel):

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=56761

Additional at following URL:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=49800


Why Israel will go to war again – soon:

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=63203

US Support of Israel PRIMARY MOTIVATION for the tragic attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and on 9/11:

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=39590


Bamford discusses 'A Clean Break'/war for Israel agenda on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=57581

The following article is right in accordance with the 'A Clean Break' agenda as 'A Clean Break' was written for Netanyahu who is apparently going to replace Olmert:

Honor First?; the liberation of Lebanon :



http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14620.htm

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The Lobby and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon:
Their Facts and Ours
by James Petras
www.dissidentvoice.org
August 29, 2006


http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug06/Petras29.htm

Israel's attack on Lebanon resulted in 9/11:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=55993



AIPAC, JINSA and similar have prevented Israel's treacherous attack on the USS Liberty from ever being investigated fully (with the survivors testifying before Congress) because traitorous AIPAC hacks like John McCain have helped to keep the USS Liberty cover-up perpetuated in service of a foreign government:

http://www.ussliberty.org

http://rense.com/Datapages/usslib.htm

The Video Pelosi and AIPAC Don’t Want You to See http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=653

The creation of Israel was against "American" core values and it was all downhill fromt there. Now we are under Israel's feet.

AIPAC Eats New Congressmen For Lunch
http://www.rense.com/general74/apic.htm

Lest we forget who runs Congress, consider the following "briefing" posted on the AIPAC website yesterday:

AIPAC Builds Ties With New Lawmakers

AIPAC reached nearly every lawmaker elected in Tuesday's mid-term congressional elections as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. During the campaign that ended Tuesday, nearly every viable candidate met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy. A non-partisan organization, AIPAC has for decades worked with Republican and Democratic members of Congress to strengthen the ties between the United States and Israel.

Translation: Nearly every lawmaker, except the few stragglers hiding out in bathroom stalls or the cloakroom, was told he or she best tow the AIPAC-Israel line, or suffer short tenure in Congress. Part of this process is obviously the forced submission of a "position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy," that is to say the targeted politico must state in writing that he or she will enthusiastically support Israel killing Palestinians, stealing their land, and running those able to run off, in short a nod and a wink in the direction of ethnic cleansing. Finally, AIPAC let us know they are "non-partisan," that is to say they have both Democrats and Republicans in their pocket.

Meet the new Congress, same as the old Congress.

Addendum

In addition, assumed House Majority leader Pelosi will "have to draw on ... inner strength," that is to say bend over backwards and jump somersaults like a trick dog, in order to demonstrate her worth to AIPAC and the state of Israel.

Sam Lauter, a pro-Israel activist in San Francisco, predicted Pelosi "will hear from those in the Jewish community who argue that Democrats no longer support Israel the way they used to," that is to say Zionists perceive Democrats to be not as rabidly pro-Likud as Republicans, that is to say neocons.

"Some Republicans, in fact, questioned Pelosi's support for Israel this summer. The congresswoman ended up removing her name as a co-sponsor from a House resolution supporting the Jewish state during its war with Hezbollah because it did not address the protection of civilians," reports JTA, billed as a "news service that provides up-to-the-minute reports, analysis pieces and features on events and issues of concern to the Jewish people," or rather Jewish people who support Israel.

It would appear Pelosi has at least a shred of humanity, as she was apparently sickened by Israel's genocidal war against the people of southern Lebanon last summer. However, she has the next two years to get it right and adopt the appropriate position-all the people of southern Lebanon are Hezbollah terrorists, as the Israeli leadership stated on numerous occasions as the pariah state went about breaking every rule in the crimes against humanity book.

But then, as U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, said at the time, it is surely a "mistake to ascribe a moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts, the very purpose of which are to kill civilians, and the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths as a result of military action taken in self-defense," in other words, as Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz explained, Israeli civilians are more innocent than Lebanese civilians.

Rep Paul Findley Dares to Speak Out About the Israeli Lobby
http://www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1416/default.aspx


Paul Findley served on Capitol Hill for 22 years. During this time, he had many encounters with Israel's lobby, which exhibited considerable control over Congressional decisions with respect to Israel and the Mid-East. He speaks of treachery and treason among the highest seats of the land, and how many Congressmen put Israel's interests ahead that of America's.

Watch the 1 hour Video Interview here
http://www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1416/default.aspx

President Carter talks about AIPAC and Israel on C-SPAN
(3 minute clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBJgaBe5NgM

President Carter, Mearsheimer and WaIt and The Israel Lobby
(2 minute clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbapmPR0ZeQ

How AIPAC warps US policy - Walt and Mearsheimer in Action
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/568

Pro-Israel lobby has warped U.S. policy Pt.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CavjNvkgqew&eurl=

Pro-Israel lobby has warped U.S. policy Pt.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugbDXv9fdOU&eurl=


You can’t really understand what happened [in the war in Lebanon] if you don’t understand the political power of pro-israel groups in the United States.

Our bottom line [is] that the influence of the israel lobby has led to policies that are not in the US national interest, not in the interest of other countries in the region, and ultimately not in israel’s long term interest[.]

[The US gives] about $3 billion [in] economic and military assistance each year. That’s about $500 per year, per israeli citizen despite the fact that israel is a relatively wealthy industrial power.

That aid is largely unconditional.

It’s not linked to Israeli behavior.

It gets its aid when it builds settlements.

It gets its aid when it spies on US,

when it sells American high technology to countries like China,

or when it attacks civilians in the West Bank, Lebanon, or Gaza.

* * *
The bottom line here is that no other country gets the same level of economic, military and diplomatic support [from the United States as does Israel].

The remainder of Walt's discussion focuses on why this unconditional support is not only disastrous for United States strategically, but also indefensible morally.

Mearsheimer gives a scathing talk on israel's morally indefensible war on Lebanon, categorically rejecting israel's claim that Hizbullah used civilians as human shields.

This panel discussion is a MUST SEE and a MUST PASS ON.

Hearing about Walt and Mearsheimer’s paper is one thing and seeing them in action is a whole different experience. I urge everyone to watch them.

They give a compelling, comprehensive, and cogent presentation of everything that’s wrong with the US israel relationship.

Pro-Israel lobby has warped U.S. policy Pt.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CavjNvkgqew&eurl=

Pro-Israel lobby has warped U.S. policy Pt.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugbDXv9fdOU&eurl=

Poll: Forty percent of American voters believe the Israel Lobby has been a key factor in going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran
http://www.cnionline.org/learn/polls/czandlobby/index2.htm

http://www.cnionline.org/learn/polls/czandlobby/image002.gif



Question: Do you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree that the work of the Israel lobby on Congress and the Bush administration has been a key factor for going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran?


Method: Conducted by Zogby International of 1,036 likely voters from 10/10/06 through 10/12/06.

A new poll commissioned by the Council for the National Interest Foundation shows that a significant number of Americans are wary of the power of the Israel lobby, and believe it is behind the invasion of Iraq and the current belligerent tone of the White House and Congress toward Iran.

The poll, which was carried out by Zogby International, reveals that 39% of the American public "agree" or "somewhat agree" that "the work of the Israel lobby on Congress and the Bush administration has been a key factor for going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran." However, a similar number, 40%, "strongly disagreed" or "somewhat disagreed" with this position. Some 20% of the public, or more than one in five, were not sure.

The poll suggests that the espionage charges against two employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the publicity given to a new study of the power of the Israel lobby by two mainstream academic professors has had an affect on people's awareness of the lobby.

The academic study, done by Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard University, was published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, and was the subject of a recent debate at Peter Cooper Union that included Professor Mearsheimer, Prof. Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), and Prof. Tony Judt (New York University) and three influential pro-Zionists, Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, and Shlomo Ben-Ami.

The poll's details show that 46% of Democrats tended to believe that the lobby was influential in the decision to go to war in Iraq while 45% of Republicans tended to believe it was not.

Along religious lines, while Protestants tended to be evenly divided on the role of the Israel Lobby in the Iraq invasion, 49% of Catholics tended to see the lobby's hand in the invasion, while 77% of Jewish Americans overwhelming disagreed with the premise. Among ethnic groups, Hispanics (53%) believed that the lobby's role was influential.

Among age groups, 50% of those between the ages of 18 and 29 agreed that the Israel lobby had a hand in forming the current pro-war policy. As one might expect, those who call themselves progressive (49%) or liberal (52%) also agreed in the role of the lobby, while "moderates" (42%) and "very conservative" (44%) people disagreed with the idea, as did a significant percentage of college graduates (44%).

Eugene Bird, president of CNI Foundation, commented about the poll, "It demonstrates the need for widening the circulation of information about the role of the Neocons and the pro-Israel lobby in the corridors of power during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003."

Some 1,035 people participated in the poll, which was conducted in every part of the country.

Israel still top recipient of US foreign aid
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3362402,00.html

President Bush's administration to submit proposed budget for US foreign aid in 2008 to Congress; requests over 12 percent increase in foreign aid from 2007; Lebanon to receive some USD 52 million, Israel to get USD 2.4 billion

WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush's administration will submit its proposed budget for US foreign aid in 2008 to Congress on Wednesday, requesting USD 20.27 billion - a more than 12 percent increase in foreign aid from 2007.

However America's foreign aid budget composes only a small portion of its overall budget of USD 2.9 trillion.

Israel, long since the US' top recipient of foreign aid, will receive USD 2.4 billion. Since 1979 and the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, Israel has annually received up to USD 3 billion in aid.

As part of with an initiative by then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the civilian aid has been steadily decreased over the course of the past 10 years, going from USD 1.2 million to being completely cancelled this year. At the same time military aid to Israel has increased from USD 1.8 billion to USD 2.4 billion.

Egypt received the second largest aid package from the US and will receive USD 1.3 billion in military aid as well as USD 415 million in civilian aid. Jordan will receive USD 264 million in economic aid as well as USD 200 million in military aid.

Aid to the Palestinian Authority has been frozen following Hamas' victory in the recent PA elections. Despite this President Bush has asked Congress to authorize the transfer of USD 63.6 million in aid to the Palestinians, to be appropriated by the United States Agency for International Development.

Lebanon is expected to receive some USD 52 million in aid in 2008, this in addition to the special aid the administration already sought for Lebanon in 2007 – totaling at USD 580 million.

Israel, U.S. begin discussions on renewal of foreign aid package
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/823270.html

Israeli officials have been discussing over the past few months how much financial aid Israel should request from the United States in the coming years.

The issue has come up for initial discussions with the Bush administration, and will be raised again at a meeting in Washington next month. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is due to make the final decision on the matter.

The Bush administration this week asked Congress for $2.4 billion in financial aid for Israeli security needs, the highest amount possible under America's current agreement with Israel.

The financial aid issue is on the table once again because the previous agreement expires this budgetary year, after being in effect for a decade.

As prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said in 1997 that Israel was interested in reducing, to the point of eliminating, the American funds allocated for civilian purposes in Israel. The agreement reached at the time gradually altered the structure of the assistance. At the time, Israel was receiving $3 billion, of which $1.2 billion was allocated for civilian purposes.

Under the new arrangement, it was agreed that $120 million would be cut from the overall aid package every year, while the funds allocated for security purposes would increase by $60 million. As the agreement comes to an end, the civilian aid no longer exists and the security aid amounts to $2.4 billion.

Initial talks on a new financial aid package indicate that both the American and Israeli governments are interested in renewing the aid in an "orderly manner," as one person familiar with the issue put it, rather than returning to the system whereby Israel has to renew its aid request every year.

Israel needs to make a decision on whether to renew a request for civil assistance, and whether to ask for the current level of security assistance on a long-term basis or request more funding for the security challenges Israel faces.

Several officials told Haaretz that Israel has not made a final decision on these issues, although some said they had reservations about the return of civilian funding. One official noted that the outcome "will have strategic importance," not just on the economic level, but also regarding Israel-U.S. relations. The matter has recently been discussed at the defense and foreign ministries.

The Foreign Ministry convened a group of external experts, including former Israeli ambassadors to the U.S. Zalman Shoval and David Ivri, a few weeks ago to discuss some of the issues related to bilateral relations. The participants agreed that the Bush administration has been one of the friendliest to Israel and that there is an advantage to making agreements with U.S. President George W. Bush before he is replaced by someone else.

Israel also views the newly elected Congress as being friendly, and Israeli officials plan to request meetings with House and Senate leaders from both parties once Israel decides on the financial aid questions, in an effort to reach an agreement that is acceptable to Congress. Financial aid requests related to Israel that are submitted to Congress by the administration are generally approved without a problem, due in part to agreements reached ahead of time with congressional members.

Olmert will make the final decision on Israel's position after consulting with the heads of the defense and foreign ministries. The Defense Ministry, the primary recipient of security aid, has been asked to come up with estimates of Israeli security needs and how much funding they will require. An Israeli official said the Finance Ministry is also involved in some of the preliminary talks.

Wolf Blitzer is a Zionist Jew! Welcome To AIPAC! (7 minute vid) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHnI&eurl=

Jew Alterman spells it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nch43wy8Zb8

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Martin S. Indyk the original founder of

WINEP
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1568

and a former research director at AIPAC, is the Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution (Saban is the Israeli who is biggest donor to the Democrats and thus the leading member of the Jewish Billionaires Club).
http://www.uruknet.de/?colonna=m&p=30718&l=x&size=1&hd=0

American senators to visit Israel
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3366186,00.html

Delegation of American senators to arrive in Israel Sunday. Head of delegation is Bush crony Jon Kyl. It is important that they understand Israel better, says host MK Steinitz

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Jon Kyl

A delegation of American senators is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Sunday. The senators are members of a joint Senate-Knesset committee headed by Senator Jon Kyl, who is close to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Member of Knesset Yuval Steinitz (Likud) is hosting the delegation. Together with Senator Kyl, he established the committee four years ago to strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries.

"We formed the committee four years ago, when I was Chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It is the only joint committee between the American Congress and another country," said Steinitz.

"We think that it is important that the members of the delegation feel the connection and understand Israel better. They are mostly non-Jewish and we want them to feel some obligation to the country," he added.

"The ability of the Senate and the Congress to promote issues is just as important as that of the American administration. They will be briefed by Mossad Officials about Iran, Hizbullah and global Jihad," he said.

"The committee has had major achievements and we hope that this visit will lead to additional feats," he concluded. One of the committee's successes to date is receiving funding for a project to develop a rocket-interception system.

The two-day visit includes meetings with

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Opposition Chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu,

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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

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and Meir Dagan, Chief of the Mossad. .

Later on they will also meet Deputy President and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The visit will end with dinner with Coalition Chairman MK Avigdor Itzchaky, MK Tzachi Hangebi, Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Robert Auman and Nathan Sharansky.

Good find, Billy Bob.

A delegation of American senators is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Sunday. The senators are members of a joint Senate-Knesset committee headed by Senator Jon Kyl...

Member of Knesset Yuval Steinitz (Likud) is hosting the delegation. Together with Senator Kyl, he established the committee four years ago to strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries.

"We formed the committee four years ago, when I was Chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It is the only joint committee between the American Congress and another country," said Steinitz.
They're generally trying to keep it pretty quiet then, cause google web doesn't bring it up.
REFERENCE ALSO LACK OF OFFICIAL PRESENCE OF STATE DEPT. BUREAU CALLED,"OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM":
http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=505250&postcount=3
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+Senate-Knesset+committee+&btnG=Google+Search
although google news has one link:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Senate-Knesset+committee+&btnG=Search+News
Typing in "senate knesset" into the search box of the US Senate also brings no result:
http://www.senate.gov/general/search/search_cfm.cfm?q=senate-knesset&site=default_collection&num=10&filter=0&x=18&y=15
senate knesset committe yields results but only on those three words--NOT on the committee. Seems they are aware to keep the web presence of these things as quiet as possible.
http://www.senate.gov/general/search/search_cfm.cfm?

Do not forget.

http://www.vialls.com/myahudi/fortress1.html
http://www.joevialls.co.uk/myahudi/fortress2.html

Someone sticky this thread!

Jew Alterman spells it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nch43wy8Zb8What a video, remnant. That sephardic scowling and Alterman the "self-hating" jew-- ha ha. We'll try to use this in Goyfire. The AIPAC, monied jew aspect is just what Kwans need to hear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nch43wy8Zb8

" Democrats trapped by AIPAC on Iran" etc.

http://bloggingheads.tv/video.php?id=196&cid=977

Some good insights from inside the Tribe

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3367124,00.html

'Iran center of US-Israeli talks'


MK Steinitz says Islamic Republic at center of talks between Israeli officials and visiting US Congressional delegation; 'pretty clear' military option is on table should sanctions fail, he says, adding that 'Hizbullah threat higher than ever'

Iran was at the center of talks held between a high-level US congressional delegation to Israel and local officials, Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz told Ynetnews on Monday evening.

Steinitz is hosting a delegation of four American Congress members and a senator who arrived on a military flight to Israel on Sunday night. On Monday evening, the delegation met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem.

"The Iranian subject was the first topic in all of the discussions," Steinitz said, adding: "It was the central issue."

"Everyone expressed an unequivocal stance that Iran must not be allowed to be a nuclear country, and to have nuclear weapons," Steinitz said. "There is some hope that if Europe works with the US to achieve economic sanctions, and a blockade on Tehran, then Iran may agree to halts its program, like North Korea," he said. "If not, it's pretty clear that the military solution is on table," he added.

The US delegation, headed by US Senator John Kyl, toured Jerusalem throughout Monday. Knesset Member Steinitz told Ynetnews he showed the US delegation around the works being carried out at the Mugrabi Gate, as well as archaeological work around the Western Wall.

"I explained to them that the Islamic Movement's claims are not political, but are a total rejection of Judeo-Christian history. Their claim that there was no Temple in Jerusalem, and their rejection of what was said in the Old and New Testament, is an attack on Judeo-Christian tradition. It is an attempt to start a religious fanatic war," Steinitz said. He added that the delegation understood the severity of the issue.

In the past, the joint Knesset-Congress-Senate committee helped make hundreds of millions of dollars available for Israel's missile defense shield, Arrow, which is produced in cooperation Boeing in the US.

In addition, according to Steinitz, the committee has in the past prevented arms sales to Arab states that would have threatened Israel's unique edge in the region; it also initiated the Iran nuclear sanctions law, which makes it illegal for governments to provide arms or aid Iran's nuclear program, the Knesset member said.

"This is not just a polite visit," Steinitz emphasized.

On Tuesday, the delegation will visit an Arrow missile battery at an IDF base in Palmahim, in southern Israel, and will receive a guided tour on the recent successful test of the Arrow system. They will then meet with Mossad Director Meir Dagan.

'Hizbullah stronger than ever'

Steinitz slammed Defense Minister Amir Peretz's attempt to soften comments made by the IDF Military Intelligence Head Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, who told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Hizbullah's threat level was almost as high as it was on the eve of the war. Peretz said the threat was merely "potential."

"There are facts and there are political comments," Steinitz told Ynetnews.

"The facts are as Baidatz described them. Hizbullah today is stronger in terms of its arsenal, and rocket possession, than it was on the eve of the war. It's very unpleasant for us Israelis to hear, and for the government in particular, because we not only failed to lift the Hizbullah threat, but the threat has increased," he said.

"I was very surprised by the comments of the defense minister. Personally, I don't understand what 'potential' means," Steinitz added.

Knesset Member Steinitz was formerly chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

He hinted that "new" elements could be present in Lebanon, but couldn't go into more details. "It (Baidatz's testimony) confirms what we all know, that the last war wasn't a big success from Israel's perspective," he said.


American senators to visit Israel
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3366186,00.html

Delegation of American senators to arrive in Israel Sunday. Head of delegation is Bush crony Jon Kyl. It is important that they understand Israel better, says host MK Steinitz

http://www.trgc.org/images/Kyl.jpg
Jon Kyl

A delegation of American senators is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Sunday. The senators are members of a joint Senate-Knesset committee headed by Senator Jon Kyl, who is close to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Member of Knesset Yuval Steinitz (Likud) is hosting the delegation. Together with Senator Kyl, he established the committee four years ago to strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries.

"We formed the committee four years ago, when I was Chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It is the only joint committee between the American Congress and another country," said Steinitz.

"We think that it is important that the members of the delegation feel the connection and understand Israel better. They are mostly non-Jewish and we want them to feel some obligation to the country," he added.

"The ability of the Senate and the Congress to promote issues is just as important as that of the American administration. They will be briefed by Mossad Officials about Iran, Hizbullah and global Jihad," he said.

"The committee has had major achievements and we hope that this visit will lead to additional feats," he concluded. One of the committee's successes to date is receiving funding for a project to develop a rocket-interception system.

The two-day visit includes meetings with

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Opposition Chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu,

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/israel502/images/profiles_livni.jpg
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

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and Meir Dagan, Chief of the Mossad. .

Later on they will also meet Deputy President and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The visit will end with dinner with Coalition Chairman MK Avigdor Itzchaky, MK Tzachi Hangebi, Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Robert Auman and Nathan Sharansky.

Senator Kyl Bows To AIPAC And Israel
http://www.nolajbs.net/forum/index.php?topic=7647.0

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Kyl leads secret Mideast delegation To Jeruslam


Kyl and Giffords lead a peace delegation from Baghdad to Jerusalem, where they hope to meet with Condoleezza Rice, who will be in Israel to participate in peace talks.

Members of the delegation said they plan to meet with Israeli and Palestinian political leaders, as well.



Kyl Tells Arabs to respect Israel

“We want to convey a message to the Palestinians that they have got to become a partner for peace. You can’t expect the Israelis to negotiate with people who refuse to recognize their right to exist,” Kyl said.

“We also want to send the Jews a message, that we support Israel in it's fight against Palestinian terror."


(full article)
Kyl leads secret Mideast delegation
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/84315?source=rss&dest=STY-84315

Paul Giblin, Tribune
While members of Congress debated last week whether to pass a resolution formally repudiating President Bush for sending more than 20,000 additional combat troops to Iraq, a few members of Congress quietly made plans to slip into the war zone for a firsthand view.

Details of the delegation’s weekend trip were kept secret, even from other congressional lawmakers because of security concerns raised after a rash of deadly attacks on U.S. military helicopters in Bagdad in recent weeks.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., led the delegation that included members of both houses and both parties. The group included Rep. Gabriella Giffords, D-Ariz., a freshman representative who opposes the war in Iraq.

Kyl and Giffords spoke to the Tribune on Friday before they left Washington, D.C., on condition that the story not run before today, the day after the delegation was expected to have left Baghdad for Jerusalem.

The group planned to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, U.S. Gen. David Petraeus and other military leaders and personnel while in Iraq.

The congressional leaders wanted to personally deliver a message to al-Maliki that he needs to continue to increase the number of Iraqi troops deployed in defense of the country and strengthen the rules of engagement for dealing with militias and other “bad elements,” Kyl said.

Previously, Iraqi government officials frequently undercut U.S. and Iraqi military gains by releasing captured combatants and surrendering regions that were cleared of anti-government militias back in the hands of the militias, Kyl said.

“What we’re going to do is to say: We think it’s very necessary for this new strategy to prevail,” Kyl said. “Keep up what you’re doing now.”

Kyl said he also wanted to assess how the surge in U.S. troops is assisting Iraqis.

“It’s not just a surge in American troops,” he said. “That is a part of the overall strategy, but it is only one part.”

Giffords said one of her chief objectives is to speak with military personnel.

“I want to make sure their needs are being taken care of, whether or not these multiple re-deployments are affecting people’s families,” said Giffords, a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

U.S. troops performed heroically during the initial invasion, the search for weapons of mass destruction and the search and capture of Saddam Hussein, she said.

However, Giffords questions the military’s current role in Iraq.

“Now, our troops are being caught up in a political situation — a situation that doesn’t have a military remedy,” she said. “I have some concerns in terms of readiness worldwide. There are other spots in the world like Afghanistan, like North Korea, like potential hot spots around the world such as South America, that readiness is critically important.”

She added she wants to make sure “our military has the might and force that we need wherever we send them.”

“Iraq is draining a lot of our resources and frankly, these are resources that I believe can be spent in other places,” Giffords said.

The role of the United States should be limited to stabilizing Iraq, she said.

“We have a responsibility to the Iraqi people to help them determine what they want their country to look like, to help them learn how to govern, to help them build the infrastructure that they’re going to need,” Giffords said.

On Monday and Tuesday, members of the congressional delegation also are expected to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who will be in Israel to participate in peace talks.

Members of the delegation said they plan to meet with Israeli and Palestinian political leaders, as well.

“We want to convey a message to the Palestinians that they have got to become a partner for peace. You can’t expect the Israelis to negotiate with people who refuse to recognize their right to exist,” Kyl said.

“We also want to send message to the Israelis and hear from them. It’s a message of support from the United States in their fight (against) terrorists,” he said.

Giffords, who traveled extensively even before winning office, acknowledged the danger of visiting a war zone, but said it was important to appraise the situation herself.

“To me, it’s similar to my experience of visiting Ground Zero,” she said. “You could see the site of the World Trade Center on television, you could read about it in the newspaper and hear about it on the radio, but it’s absolutely nothing like seeing it for yourself in person. And that’s how I see Iraq.”

Giffords said she also looked forward to working with Kyl during the trip.

Kyl is the third-ranking member in the Senate Republican leadership, and one of the most outspoken supporters of increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Someone sticky this thread!

Why? It is common knowledge among WN. At least it should be. As even many non WN are aware of AIPAC. The goal, inmo, should be to work on those we know in the real world to educate them on it.

AIPAC Demands "Action" on Iran
http://counterpunch.org/leupp02242007.html

"An American Strike on Iran is Essential for Our Existence"

Former CIA counterterrorism specialist Philip Giraldi, comparing the propaganda campaign against Iran to that which preceded the war on Iraq, has recently declared, "It is absolutely parallel. They're using the same dance steps-demonize the bad guys, the pretext of diplomacy, keep out of negotiations, use proxies. It is Iraq redux." He's only one of many in his field (including Vincent Cannistraro, Ray McGovern, and Larry C. Johnson) doing their best to expose the Bush-Cheney neocon disinformation campaign according to which Iran is planning to produce nukes in order to commit genocide, while abetting terrorists in Iraq who are killing American troops.

Their efforts, and those of many others, are producing results. The mainstream corporate press is far more skeptical about administration claims pertaining to Iran than they ever were towards the equally specious claims made about Iraq on the eve of the 2003 invasion. The American people are now inclined to distrust claims made by nameless officials about Quds Force-provisioned IEDs and EFPs, etc., supposedly smuggled by "meddling" Iranians into Iraq. Unfortunately the Congress dominated by Democrats elected in a popular expression of antiwar sentiment has not taken a firm stance against an attack on Iran based on lies. Maybe given the nature of the power structure it simply can't.

Giraldi matter-of-factly sums up the unfortunate politics of situation.

"The recent formation of the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus should. . . .be noted as well as AIPAC's highlighting of the threat from Iran at its 2006 convention in Washington, an event that featured Vice President Dick Cheney as keynote speaker. More recently, Senator Hillary Clinton addressed an AIPAC gathering in New York City. Neither was shy about threatening Iran. AIPAC's formulation that the option of force 'must remain on the table' when dealing with Iran has been repeated like a mantra by numerous politicians and government officials, not too surprisingly as AIPAC writes the briefings and position papers that many Congressmen unfortunately rely on."

In other words, the American Israel Political Action Committee is the main political force urging---indeed, demanding---U.S. action. That's the AIPAC already under scrutiny for receiving classified information about Iran from Lawrence Franklin, former Defense Department subordinate of Douglas Feith. (That's the neocon Feith who supervised the Office of Special Plans---headed by Abram Shulsky, the neocon specialist on Leo Strauss who currently heads up the Iran Directorate at the Pentagon---that shamelessly cherry-picked intelligence to support the Iraq attack. That's the Franklin who worked in the OSP, and was sentenced last month to 13 years in prison. Feith has not been indicted on any charge and continues to insist in defiance of reason and even a Pentagon internal investigation finding it "inappropriate" that his office's disinformation project was "good government." Small wonder Gen. Tommy Franks, formerly head of the U.S. Central Command, famously called Feith "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth." Congressional investigations are just now getting underway into Feith's role in facilitating the invasion of Iraq.)

That's the AIPAC embarrassed by the indictment of its policy director Steven Rosen
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and senior Iran analyst Keith Weissman
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for illegally conspiring to pass on classified national security information to Israel. Despite the already intimate ties between Israeli and U.S. intelligence (documented by Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski among others) it seems the Israelis felt obliged to spy on the Pentagon to learn just how inclined the Americans were to oblige them by attacking Iran.

Now, as Israeli calls for a U.S. attack on Iran become more shrill by the day, AIPAC recognizes that the American people profoundly distrust Vice President Cheney and the nest of neocon liars he has sheltered. The Bush-Cheney war machine has been pretty well exposed, and that must worry the warmongers within the group. Israeli Defense Force chief artillery officer Gen. Oded Tira has griped that "President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran," adding that since "an American strike in Iran is essential for [Israel's] existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and US newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iran issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure." Tira urges the Lobby to turn to "potential presidential candidates. . . so that they support immediate action by Bush against Iran," while Uri Lubrani, senior advisor to Defense Minister Amir Peretz, tells the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors that the US "does not understand the threat and has not done enough," and therefore "must be shaken awake."

Many Americans would find such statements deeply offensive in their arrogance and condescension. President Bush has indeed been weakened by the "Iraq failure" Tira acknowledges, arising from a war that the Lobby once endorsed with enormous enthusiasm. (As Gen. Wesley Clark put it way back in August 2002, "Those who favor this attack now will tell you candidly, and privately, that it is probably true that Saddam Hussein is no threat to the United States. But they are afraid at some point he might decide if he had a nuclear weapon to use it against Israel." Recall that that weapon was imaginary.) So now, the Israeli war advocates aver, the U.S. president needs to be helped to do the right thing and attack Iran by lobbyists who will use their power to force the fools in the Democratic Party, especially presidential candidates. Because Americans don't understand and have to be shaken out of their current skeptical mode.

By who? By AIPAC, of course! The confidence expressed by these gentlemen (in the second most powerful political action committee in the country) is quite extraordinary. But alas, maybe it's warranted. Giraldi dispassionately concludes:

"Knowing that to cross the Lobby is perilous, Congressmen from both parties squirm and become uneasy when pressured by AIPAC to 'protect Israel,' even if it means yet another unwinnable war for the United States. The neocons know full well that if a war with Iran were to be started either inadvertently or by design, few within America's political system would be brave enough to stand up in opposition."

One should ask these spineless politicians how they suppose the people will remember their votes and positions within weeks of the "immediate action" Tira and his allies in the Bush administration (most notably Condi Rice's deputy Elliott Abrams, the most powerful neocon remaining in the team) are demanding. Will they not be blamed for the total collapse of cooperation between the U.S. occupation and Iraq's Shiite majority, the fall of the current client regime dominated by Iranian allies, the intensification of Shiite militia attacks on U.S. forces, the broadening of the current two-front war to enflame all of Southwest Asia?

One should ask those squirming manipulators blissfully ignorant of the Islamic world---clueless about the difference between Arabs and Persians or Sunnis and Shiites, coached almost entirely by State Department Zionists who don't bother to conceal their Islamophobia---to recognize that American Jewry is not generally pro-neocon nor united in support of an Iran attack. Indeed many American Jews are alarmed at Israeli/AIPAC efforts to push the U.S. into another crusader war on a Muslim nation. (A lot of them are in New York. Hillary might consult with them rather than suppose that her ticket to the presidency is the support of the Cheney-friendly Lobby. But I wouldn't hold my breath on that.)

One should ask the Lobbyists as well as the government of Israel that they think they serve (as well as the people of Israel, honestly divided in their opinions) how the security of the Jewish State will be abetted by a generalized war between Israel's great patron and the entire Muslim world.

When one plays this Islamophobic game of exploiting ignorance, fear, hatred and bigotry; when one conflates al-Qaeda with Iraq with Hamas with Hizbollah with Iran knowing that most Americans know little about the details and will be inclined to side (for now) with Israel against Muslims in general; when one lies (as the neocons do with such arrogance, supposing they will escape any consequences of the lies down the road)---then one invites a backlash. We live in a racist culture that easily slides into religious bigotry. Why use that culture (not so dissimilar to the German culture of the 1930s) so shamelessly---against Arabs and other Muslim peoples of the Middle East? One's disinformation with its murderous results in the Muslim world might just produce the ignorant conclusion that could sweep Middle America down the road: "The Jews made us do it." That's what the red-necks including a whole lot of today's brain-dead Christian Zionist fundamentalists will say as soon as everything goes wrong in the Middle East, Jesus doesn't come back and is nowhere in sight, and the three U.S. troops killed per day becomes six or ten for no good goddamned reason.

"They have the money, they control the media and the politicians. They made us attack Iran and now look what's happening." That's what the ignorant who can one day cry "Nuke 'em all!" referring to Muslims, and the next day swear "Fucking Christ-killers" will say. Is the Lobby's paranoia about Iran's uranium enrichment so severe as to risk that kind of assessment, that kind of blowback bigotry?

We are perhaps arriving at a critical point in the history of the powerful Lobby, including its capacity to intimidate honest, critically reasoning people who do not embrace its fears, prejudices and preoccupations. It's under unprecedented scrutiny following the carefully argued paper by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" and Jimmy Carter's book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid both published last year, to which it's reacted with its wonted technique of character assassination. The political power of the Lobby would appear to be reaching its zenith; and while it used its hand subtly in the build-up for war on Iraq, it now uses it in crude, bullying fashion. Israeli officials weren't publicly calling for the simple-minded Christian-Zionist Bush to "smite" Iraq to defend Israel in 2003, but now they're nervously demanding that Bush destroy Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent a "genocide" worse that that accomplished by Hitler! Their boldness betrays a confidence that they can indeed continue to shape American political discourse about the Middle East (to the exclusion of any audible Arab or Muslim voice) and that to challenge them is indeed "perilous."

"Attack Iran! NOW! Or support GENOCIDE! and side with the new HITLER! Destroy Iran's nuclear facilities! NOW! Or reveal your thinly-disguised ANTI-SEMITISM!"

That's the hyper-message calculated to stimulate an assault, to which the calm counterterrorism analyst Giraldi draws our attention. One could respond to the message with a polite, firm, principled refusal:

No thanks this time, AIPAC. You're just not credible. Can't do it for you. My constituents aren't into more war, and they think this whole Iran thing's a lot of hype. I can't support nuking Iran, and frankly, I don't see how you can either. I don't think you speak for all or even most American Jews, and you can't scare me this time by accusations of anti-Semitism. I can't have an attack on Iran my conscience, sorry. I'd rather be defeated in the next election. Keep your money; I just can't do what you ask.

Will the Congress targeted by the Lobby be able to say that? If it doesn't, all the belated, posturing moves to limit Bush's power, withdraw troops and end the imperialist war in Iraq will mean nothing. An attack on Iran will unleash the gates of hell. The attackers will argue that a new situation makes all prewar debate irrelevant (or even if encouraging doubt about the "existential" cause, downright treasonous). The fascistic proclivities of the administration will blossom immediately. The legal basis has been laid for the repression of the dissent an Iran attack will naturally inspire. Prison camps, suspension of habeas corpus. The proponents of the war are comfortable with these things, and the waters have already been tested.

O nation miserable,
With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?

Can the American people allow this unelected unpopular administration, headed by a manifestly stupid sadistic fool, to continue to provoke international contempt and fear, while planning more carnage?

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/activism-aipac-conference-dc-3-368644.html

Here is a chance to raise some hell.

Anyone in the area want to confront them or just to make others aware?
http://www.aipac.org/1680.asp#2498

Teach the public about these criminals, white traitors and jew alike.

Hillary Clinton and AIPAC: This two-face bitch will appear to be on everybody's side when in fact she favors no side. She 's only out for herself to win the presidential seat. She and her husband have caused the deficit to increase with their Savings and Loan scandal. Also, if anyone remembers, right after Bill was inaugurated, the IRS went nuts and it was falsely accusing people of owing thousands of dollars when they didn't at tax time. Many committed suicide. The IRS decided to audit millions to see how much money itz could squeeze of out people whether they owed or not. The moneylaundering entity was also giving people a hard time about their refunds.

The Clintons are bad news. Vince Foster's murder was never solved. It was left at suicide. This guy knew damaging information that could have put the Clintons in federal prison. Vince Foster was murdered.

In my book, the Clintons are no better than jews.

Does the Israeli Tail Wag American Dog?
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/762

Excellent article!!

(Excerpt)

A quarter century ago, the executive director of AIPAC – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – established an analytical unit inside the organization to write in-depth advocacy papers for policymakers. The year was 1981, the president was Ronald Reagan, and AIPAC had just lost a hard-fought battle in Congress over the sale of AWACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

The AIPAC leader was an energetic former congressional aide named Thomas Dine, who used the setback to build AIPAC into a formidable political force.

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Thomas A. Dine is the new CEO of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.

Over the next few years, Dine quadrupled AIPAC’s grassroots membership as well as its budget and aggressively expanded contacts with Congress and policymakers. He set out to supply politicians with analyses geared toward advancing Israeli interests, in the stated belief that anyone who wrote papers read by policymakers would effectively “own” the policymakers.

Let's disseminate those videos, articles, links and resources all over the internet, on every forum, site, guestbook, media page and blog, and wake people up.

With intelligent, concetrated, concerted effort, we can affect the global racial and political process, and the best thing is, it's all legal.

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

Let's keep formulating and spreading the ideas, and then the times will change as a result.

5,500 terrorist's to Descend on Washington.

Aipac Will Press for Hard Line on Iran Regime
http://www.nysun.com/article/49927

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Congress is moving to outflank both the Bush administration and the United Nations with the toughest set of sanctions against Iran that have ever been proposed.

The introduction of the new legislation comes as more than 5,500 members of America's largest pro-Israel lobby are set to arrive in Washington for their annual policy conference. They are expected to press Congress to endorse new legislation to sanction foreign companies that do business with Iran and to re-impose the import restrictions, on items such as rugs, pistachios, and caviar, which President Clinton lifted in 2000 to foster dialogue with an Iranian regime that was seen as reformist.

The goal of the sanctions is to deny Tehran funding that could be used to support terrorism and attacks on American troops in Iraq or to build nuclear weapons or missiles. With the United Nations hesitant to take significant action against Iran and even American allies in Europe hesitant to move beyond symbolic condemnations, the congressional actions are an attempt to signal to both Iran and its international business partners that Washington is running out of patience with Iranian misbehavior.

The new sanctions legislation introduced yesterday by Rep. Tom Lantos, the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, differs from earlier sanctions bills in that it would not grant President Bush the authority to waive sanctions against oil companies that sign new agreements with the Islamic Republic.

AIPAC speaker hopes US gets nuked after Israel provokes war with Russia
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/826

SUNDAY NIGHT PLENARY - The U.S. and Israel: Tradition and Transcendence

Two eloquent voices from diverse backgrounds explore the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East and how Americans from all faiths can find common cause in supporting Israel.

Pastor John Hagee
Author and Scholar Michael Oren
Special Guest Eitan Wertheimer, Chairman of the Board of ISCAR

Who's John Hagee? Sarah Posner can tell you all about it. I'll just note this:

In Hagee’s telling, Israel has no choice but to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities, with or without America’s help. The strike will provoke Russia -- which wants Persian Gulf oil -- to lead an army of Arab nations against Israel. Then God will wipe out all but one-sixth of the Russian-led army, as the world watches “with shock and awe,” he says, lending either a divine quality to the Bush administration phrase or a Bush-like quality to God’s wrath.

But Hagee doesn’t stop there. He adds that Ezekiel predicts fire “‘upon those who live in security in the coastlands.’” From this sentence he concludes that there will be judgment upon all who stood by while the Russian-led force invaded Israel, and issues a stark warning to the United States to intervene: “Could it be that America, who refuses to defend Israel from the Russian invasion, will experience nuclear warfare on our east and west coasts?” He says yes, citing Genesis 12:3, in which God said to Israel: “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.”

To fill the power vacuum left by God’s decimation of the Russian army, the Antichrist -- identified by Hagee as the head of the European Union -- will rule “a one-world government, a one-world currency and a one-world religion” for three and a half years. (He adds that “one need only be a casual observer of current events to see that all three of these things are coming into reality.”) The “demonic world leader” will then be confronted by a false prophet, identified by Hagee as China, at Armageddon, the Mount of Megiddo in Israel. As they prepare for the final battle, Jesus will return on a white horse and cast both villains -- and presumably any nonbelievers -- into a “lake of fire burning with brimstone,” thus marking the beginning of his millennial reign.


So you see, John Hagee, who wants to see Israel adopt a hawkish foreign policy that he believes will result in its destruction at the hands of a Russo-Arab alliance is a friend of the Jews. By contrast, everyone who thinks a little pressure to make peace could wind up helping Israel in the long run is an anti-semite.

Hardline Pastor Gets Prime AIPAC Spot
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13765&print=yes

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John Hagee and his son Matthew

Growing ties between pro-Israel forces and a controversial, hardline “Christian Zionist” movement will move into the national spotlight at next week’s policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby.

One keynoter at the event, which annually draws hundreds of lawmakers, administration officials, diplomats and political hopefuls, will be Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), author of several books about biblical prophecy and an opponent of new territorial concessions to the Palestinians on biblical grounds.

Rev. Hagee, who will speak at a Sunday plenary, was also a leading backer of a controversial Christian broadcast venture in Israel that critics charge sought to convert Jews.

And a time when pro-Israel forces are being accused of beating the drums for war with Iran, Rev. Hagee seems to believe such a conflict is both inevitable and necessary. In his apocalypse-oriented book “Jerusalem Countdown,” he predicted a nuclear showdown with Iran and said, “The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching ... rejoice and be exceedingly glad, the best is yet to be,” according to a Wall Street Journal report posted on the CUFI Web site.

Last year, Rev. Hagee told the Jerusalem Post that “I would hope the United States would join Israel in a military pre-emptive strike to take out the nuclear capability of Iran for the salvation of Western civilization.”

Israeli historian Michael Oren will also speak at Sunday’s plenary.

Giving Rev. Hagee such prominence at the premier pro-Israel gathering of the year — he attended last year’s conference — troubles some AIPAC supporters.

Rabbi Barry Block of Temple Beth El in San Antonio—the home of the John Hagee Ministries and to his 18,000-member Cornerstone Church—said he hopes the minister’s presence will be balanced by “Christians who support Israel but who do not share the ‘end of days’ theology and extremist anti-Palestinian positions and anti-Muslim prejudice so often spewed by Pastor Hagee.”

Rabbi Block, who said he is an “AIPAC supporter” and participates in local activities of the lobby, added that “there are those I love and respect in my community who believe we should work with Pastor Hagee on the important concern we share—the welfare of the state of Israel. However, despite what may be good intentions, I don’t think Pastor Hagee’s activism is good for Israel.”

Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, cofounder of a We site that opposes Christian right church-state policies, said that Hagee’s AIPAC appearance will mark a “decisive point when the costs of a relationship with Hagee couldn’t be clearer. AIPAC has to know that Hagee’s push for an attack on Iran is not based on a logically constructed policy but on cherry-picked biblical verses. And it is only the first step to the end-times scenario that Hagee enthusiastically predicts will engulf Israel in a devastating war.”

A former AIPAC official said giving Rev. Hagee a key speaking slot represents one more step toward an AIPAC embrace of the Evangelicals that began more than two decades ago, and warned that it has political risks.

“This sends out a message of an endorsement by AIPAC at a time when these Christian groups seem to be losing power in Congress—and when the Democrats, who have long opposed this cozying up to the religious right, are now in power,” this activist said.

But many pro-Israel leaders believe Rev. Hagee and other Christian Zionists, representing a growing political force, are a critical addition to the pro-Israel coalition — especially as “mainline” Protestant churches continue to castigate Israel for its West Bank policies.

But Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a strong critic of many Christian right groups, said he is not alarmed about Hagee’s role in the policy conference.

“I think there is a role for him,” Foxman aid. “He has earned a certain recognition with the community because of his support for Israel.”

Foxman said he expects Hagee will get a good reception. “It’s a friendly platform,” he said. “I’m sure an overwhelming majority may be pleased with what he says.”

That reflects an annual conference expected to strike a hawkish note on a number of issues, starting with the threat of a nuclear Iran.

Other keynote speakers will include Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and—health permitting—Vice President Dick Cheney. The current Israeli government will be represented by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Ambassador Sallai Meridor.

Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh, several sources said, will tell delegates that increased aid to Palestinian moderates is in Israel’s interests—a call that may conflict with a major AIPAC theme.

In a show of both political clout and bipartisanship that has become routine for AIPAC, the conference will feature speeches by all four top congressional leaders.

AIPAC says “more than 6,000 pro-Israel activists, including 1,200 students representing over 390 campuses” will attend. “Lead by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and both House and Senate Republican leaders all speaking under the same tent, this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference underscores the bipartisan nature of American support for Israel,” according to AIPAC spokesman Josh Block. “The conference schedule also underscores the long history, breadth and diversity of America’s centuries of support for the Jewish homeland in Israel.”

Anxiety about Iran will dominate the conference, and it is a major element in the “action agenda” that, at least in theory, sets the group’s goals for next year. Members of the executive committee will debate and vote on the statement on Sunday.

Proposed new language in the policy statement supports using “all means necessary for the United States, Israel and their allies to prevent Iran and other nations from developing nuclear, biological or chemical weapons and the vehicles for their delivery.”

Lobbying for tougher sanctions legislation will also be a top priority for AIPAC delegates when they blanket Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Protecting Israel’s big chunk of foreign aid has traditionally been a top AIPAC priority, but this year the group will also emphasize “closely monitoring assistance to countries that are not supporting American objectives in the region.”

At the top of that list: the Palestinian Authority. Congress has frozen an administration request for $86 million in emergency aid to boost Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ forces.

Pro-peace groups say they will not press AIPAC to soften its language about the Palestinians, as they have done in the past. Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), will come to the executive committee meeting loaded with amendments aimed at toughening them.

The AIPAC conference will be the usual display of political clout, but the group also faces some new challenges, including a new Democratic leadership that remains strongly pro-Israel but less in lockstep with AIPAC than their Republican predecessors.

Congressional observers say AIPAC remains a legislative powerhouse, “but more lawmakers will now feel free to ask questions, especially about routine and nonbinding resolutions praising Israel and criticizing the Palestinians,” said a longtime pro-Israel lobbyist.

But AIPAC’s influence on signature issues like Iran and foreign aid to Israel remains intact despite the partisan shift, said Kean University political scientist Gilbert Kahn.

“AIPAC has successfully maneuvered itself through Democratic and Republican administrations, Democratic and Republican Congresses, and there’s no reason to think they won’t do it again,” he said.

Kahn said AIPAC has also strengthened itself by aggressively “pushing the Orthodox community to engage. You have more and more Orthodox rabbis who are touting AIPAC and touting joining AIPAC. AIPAC understands that if you get the rabbis on board, they in turn will press the community to get involved.”

That “dramatic shift,” he said, may make AIPAC “less representative, but it also strengthens the group as voices on Mideast policy become more diverse.

“It’s a source of strength because this is a community that is comfortable with the direction AIPAC has taken in recent years,” he said.

AIPAC also faces a rising challenge from Jewish groups on both the right and the left that take a different tack on Mideast policy, and that are increasingly active on Capitol Hill.

The Zionist Organization of America on the right and both Americans for Peace Now and the Israel Policy Forum on the left are expanding their lobbying, targeting areas where they feel AIPAC does not represent them.

None can come close to eclipsing AIPAC, although IPF, Washington sources say, is starting to build a network of campaign contributors who also support the group’s perspective on Mideast affairs—a key element in AIPAC’s strength.

Still, on the verge of the 2007 policy conference, they point to a changed lobbying environment for what remains the pre-eminent group on the pro-Israel scene.

Under fire, Israel lobby rallies US backers
http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/Under_fire_Israel_lobby_rallies_US__03092007.html

Washington- After a sustained attack by critics including
former US president Jimmy Carter, the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in the US still boasts impressive political pull in Washington.

When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) opens
its annual conference Sunday, a high-powered group of politicians,
academics and policy analysts - more than 6,000 people in all - is
expected to pack the capital's glassy convention centre.

US Vice President Dick Cheney is due to give a keynote speech
Monday stressing strong ties with Israel. The top four leaders of the
Republican and Democratic parties will also speak, underscoring the
tradition of bipartisan support for Israel in the US Congress.

"There's one issue - that is, support for the US relationship with
Israel - that brings everyone together," AIPAC spokesman Josh Block
said.

AIPAC says the three-day conference will be its biggest ever - a
signal of self-confidence and, in its own way, a rebuttal of
unusually harsh questioning of the Israel lobby's influence.

Two US political scientists sparked a furious debate last spring
with an essay that portrayed Washington as slavishly devoted to
Israel and accused US President George W Bush's administration of
launching the war in Iraq to help Israeli interests.

Harvard professor Stephen Walt and the University of Chicago's
Walter Mearsheimer said their paper, published in the London Review
of Books, aimed to bring a largely taboo topic into the open.

Critics condemned the essay as historically inaccurate and an
opening for anti-Semitism. The authors insisted they were not
suggesting a Jewish conspiracy to hijack US foreign policy.

The dust had barely settled when Carter, who brokered the 1978
Israel-Egypt peace deal, hit US bookstores in November with a
broadside provocatively titled Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

Carter charges that a "free and balanced discussion" of the Arab-
Israeli conflict has been impossible in the US.

"This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli
government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the
American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any
significant contrary voices," he wrote in the Los Angeles Times.

The book details "the abominable oppression and persecution" of
Palestinians, which in many ways "is more oppressive" than apartheid
was for black South Africans, Carter said.

Again, a storm erupted. Dennis Ross, a former US envoy to the
Middle East, accused Carter of manipulating facts. Kenneth Stein, a
Mideast scholar at Emory University's Carter Centre quit in disgust.

Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal
Centre, a Jewish human rights group, accused Carter of hostility to
Israel.

Carter's own centre-left Democratic Party also distanced itself.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, one of the
highest elected US officials, said it was "wrong to suggest" that
Jews would support "ethnically based oppression."

In the White House, Bush and his Republican administration have
been one of the most staunchly pro-Israel governments of recent
times, partly due to a religious affinity for Israel among Christian
conservatives who strongly support Bush.

But public backing for Israel is also solid. A February poll on
the Middle East conflict found 58 per cent of Americans sympathize
with Israel and 20 per cent with the Palestinians. The Gallup survey
had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

"All trends indicate that Americans ... understand quite clearly
that the basic values we celebrate are reflected in only one country
in the Middle East - our ally Israel," AIPAC's Block said.

AIPAC Speeches
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173700683641&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

US Vice President Dick Cheney (video of Speech)
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials9.asp

Pastor John Hagee, Founder and Senior Pastor, Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, Texas (video of Speech)
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials12.asp

MK Binyamin Netanyahu (video of Speech)
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials16.asp

AIPAC President, Mr. Howard Friedman (video of Speech)
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials14.asp

AIPAC impact on the youth, Aaron Applbaum (video of Speech)
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials13.asp

Pastor John Hagee, Founder and Senior Pastor, Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, Texas (video of Speech)
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/specials12.asp

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The AIPAC Girl Pelosi Greenlight's Bush's Iran War
http://www.rense.com/general75/aipcgirl.htm

If George W. Bush launches a pre-emptive war on Iran, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will bear full moral responsibility for that war.

For it was Pelosi who quietly agreed to strip out of the $100 billion funding bill for Iraq a provision that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval before launching any new war on Iran.

Pelosi's capitulation came in the Appropriations Committee.

What went down, and why?

"Conservative Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible impact on Israel had argued for the change in strategy," wrote ghe Associated Press' David Espo and Matthew Lead.

"Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., said in an interview there is a widespread fear in Israel about Iran, which ... has expressed unremitting hostility to the Jewish state.

"'It would take away perhaps the most important tool the U.S. has when it comes to Iran,' she said of the now-abandoned provision.

"'I don't think it was a very wise idea to take things off the table if you're trying to get people to modify their behavior and normalize in a civilized way,' said Gary Ackerman of New York."

According to John Nichols of The Nation, Pelosi's decision to strip the provision barring Bush from attacking Iran without Congress' approval "sends the worst possible signal to the White House."

"The speaker has erred dangerously and dramatically," writes Nichols. Her "disastrous misstep could haunt her and the Congress for years to come."

Nichols does not exaggerate.

If Bush now launches war on Iran, he can credibly say Congress and the Democrats gave him a green light. For Pelosi, by removing a provision saying Bush does not have the authority, de facto concedes he does have the authority.

Bush and Cheney need now not worry about Congress.

They have been flashed the go sign for war on Iran.

Pelosi & Co. thus aborted a bipartisan effort to ensure that if we do go to war again, we do it the constitutional way, and we do it together.

Nothing in the provision would have prevented Bush, as commander in chief, from responding to an Iranian attack or engaging in hot pursuit of an enemy found in Iraq. Nor would the provision have prevented Bush from threatening Iran. It would simply have required him to come to Congress * before launching all-out war.

Now Pelosi has, in effect, ceded Bush carte blanche to take out Iran's nuclear facilities. It's all up to him and Cheney.

For this the nation elected a Democratic Congress?

Why did Pelosi capitulate? Answer: She was "under pressure from some conservative members of her caucus, and from lobbyists associated with neoconservative groups that want war with Iran and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)," writes Nichols.

The Washington Times agrees as to who bully-ragged Nancy into scuttling any requirement that Bush come to the Hill before unleashing the B-2s on Arak, Natanz and Bushehr:

"Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received a smattering of boos when she bad-mouthed the war effort during a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the Democratic leadership, responding to concerns from pro-Israel lawmakers, was forced to strip from a military appropriations measure a provision meant to weaken President Bush's ability to respond to threats from Iran."

This episode, wherein liberal Democrats scuttled a bipartisan effort to require Bush to abide by the Constitution before taking us into a third war in the Middle East, speaks volumes about who has the whip hand on Capitol Hill when it comes to the Middle East.

Pelosi gets booed by the Israeli lobby, then runs back to the Hill and gives Bush a blank check for war on Iran, because that is what the lobby demands. A real candidate for Profiles in Courage.

As for the presidential candidates, it is hard to find a single one willing to stand up and say: If Bush plans to take us into another war in the Mideast, he must first come to Congress for authorization. And if he goes to war without authorization, that will be impeachable.

All retreat into the "all-options-are-on-the-table" mantra, which is another way of saying, "It's Bush's call."

The corruption of both parties is astonishing. Republicans used to be the party of the Constitution: "No more undeclared wars! No more presidential wars!"

Democrats used to be the party of the people. The people don't want this war. They don't want another. The Jewish community voted 88 percent for Democrats in November, and 77 percent oppose Iraq.

So says Gallup. Yet, just because the Israeli lobby jerked her chain, the leader of the Peoples' House has decided she and her party will leave the next war up to Bush.

This new Dutch documentary was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt's "The Israel Lobby"(50 minute vid)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3497308896275775092&hl=en


Good video Interview coverage with Mearsheimer.

Over all good documentary.

Good Highlights of the main reasons Israel is going down.

Supports the conclusion below.

Israel's Demise is coming!! The writing is on the Wall!!
http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=45832

Jewish JINSA/PNAC Neocons Want Iran to be Bombed Next
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=63201


Endorsed by Lieberman and AIPAC McCain Links up with JINSA http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/12/endorsed-by-lieberman-and-aipac-mccain.html

McCain names Broxmeyer top Jewish adviser

Published: 12/14/2007

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) named the chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs as the top Jewish adviser to his presidential campaign.


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Mark Broxmeyer, already a top fund-raiser for the McCain campaign, will serve as the chair of McCain's Jewish Advisory Committee, a campaign statement said.

Broxmeyer, a New York property developer, is national chairman for JINSA, a group that promotes close Israel-U.S. security ties and that has been one of the most consistent supporters of the Bush administration's Iraq policy. Broxmeyer has taken the lead in promoting JINSA's exchange program for Israeli and U.S. law enforcement officials.

McCain's campaign for the Republican nomination nearly collapsed over the summer, but in recent weeks he has made strides in early primary states.