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The
sordid and
occasionally illegal tactics used by the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) to intimidate Congress are well-documented. But what
precisely has all of AIPAC's past nest-destruction bought? Back when AIPAC
got serious about launching economic warfare against Iran, it lobbied the
Bush administration to
create a new unit in the U.S. Treasury Department. Into this nest it
laid Stuart Levey. Levey's only
observable qualification was an extreme commitment to Israel under the
wing of ultra-Zionist Marty Peretz. Leadership of this Iran economic
warfare unit is now a captured roost exclusively for Israel lobby
hatchlings. Levey's former law partner David Cohen simply flitted
in when Levey departed the nest.
So too the lobby has tumbled out credible and experienced career diplomats and placed former AIPAC research director and AIPAC think tank founder Martin Indyk in charge of the on-going ruse known as the "Israel-Palestine peace process." Long on the payroll of Israeli-American media mogul and political operative Haim Saban, watchers have recently observed Indyk preening with his patron before winging off to the latest round of "peace negotiations."
Perhaps the most secretive and dangerous Israel lobby cowbird policy egg was hatched in the National Security Agency in 2009 during the very months the Obama administration quietly dismissed espionage charges against AIPAC staff. According to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the wholesale transfer of raw NSA intercepts on American citizens to Israel has been ongoing since that time. The transfer is "authorized" by official doctrine that "the survival of the state of Israel is a paramount goal of US Middle East policy." This prime directive was secret because it is a blank check obligating American blood and treasure to a cause U.S. citizens never approved via any referendum or advise and consent process. As in so many issues concerning Israel--from the U.S. criminal activities and cover-ups that enabled its clandestine nuclear program to funding for illegal occupation activities--the Israel lobby cowbird diligently rolled the eggs of U.S. interest right out of their federal nests.
Not so dramatic when put that way, is it?
Care to present your case why the American Jews should care about YOUR interests instead of their own? Isn't the concept of our system that we all pursue our own interests, trade for mutual support, etc. Or do you have some problem with the American Jews being citizens just like everybody esle and just as much entitled to pursue whatever they believe THEIR interests to be.
AIPAC only exists in its present form because its parent, the AZC, was ordered to register. Six weeks later, AIPAC split off an incorporated.
Americans resent AIPAC because it has accumulated undue influence through illegal means.
http://www.juancole.com/2013/10/american-binyamin-netanyahu.html
Our interests are rule of law, due process, advise and consent, and open governance. The Israel lobby has a record undermining all of that. See:
http://www.IRmep.org/ila
The level of criminality, whether its weapons smuggling, election fraud, espionage, both economic and national defense, is VERY dramatic. It is important that captured segments of the government be redeemed so that this huge challenge to America can be rectified.
AIPAC spies, fixes elections, illegally coordinates donations, takes proprietary classified commercial data from U.S. companies, and nobody does anything about it. (Well, some people complain when it's noticed.)
AIPAC operatives fixed an election to elect Alan Cranston. Please explain why any American should feel the taxpayer goody bag he passed (and we still fund) to Israel was in any way legitimate. Explain that, and the cowbird is free to fly.
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