AIPAC on the Run?
| Thu May. 7, 2009 6:02 AM PDT
Change in Washington? How about AIPAC, the pro-Israel super-lobby, losing its stranglehold on Congress and the White House? The Forward reports:
"You're not going to like my saying this," Vice President Joe Biden told 6,000 delegates from the podium of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference - a spot that politicians usually vie over vigorously for the privilege of telling the crowd what they want to hear.
But Biden, after sending up his rhetorical warning, used his May 5 keynote speech to the pro-Israel lobby to convey the Obama administration's insistence on a number of policies directly conflicting with those of the new government in Israel - and some policies held by previous Israeli governments, too.
Other speakers, such as Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, underlined Biden's points on the need for Israel to stop expanding settlements in the West Bank and accept the necessity of a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
And when they went to lobby on Capitol Hill, AIPAC delegates even found some stalwart supporters in Congress holding back on one of their key legislative initiatives - a full-court press to impose new sanctions on Iran to accompany the Obama administration's drive to engage Tehran diplomatically.What's next? Obama pushing Israel to acknowledge it has nuclear weapons and to sign the Nonproliferation Treaty? Maybe not. But the dynamic between Washington and AIPAC is shifting, and Bibi Netanyanhu ought to take note.
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AIPAC on the run?
Submitted by Dredd (not verified) on Thu May. 7, 2009 6:23 AM PDT.
AIPAC is on the run like the robber barons are on the run.
Bush II got rid of the robber barons you know:
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/05/bush-ii-eradicated-robber-barons.html
Ethical journalism
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu May. 7, 2009 12:10 PM PDT.
Investigative journalism, eh? What next, a bit of blood libel, a dash of Protocols of the Elders of Zion? If AIPAC were so powerful would you be allowed to write such drivel? Shame on you for perpetuation vile canards, Ma.
Well, that didn't take long...
Submitted by QMF (not verified) on Thu May. 7, 2009 2:44 PM PDT.
...did it?
AIPAC
Submitted by Erl King (not verified) on Fri Sep. 25, 2009 8:58 AM PDT.
This just in: congress and the senate has been sent to their rooms for not vigorously denying the influence that AIPAC has over U.S. foreign policy. AIPAC said that the "People's" representatives will be allowed out when they demonstrate their undying love for the middle east ethnocracy.
Well this is very interesting
Submitted by joannarose27 (not verified) on Mon Dec. 7, 2009 12:57 AM PST.
Well this is very interesting indeed. Would love to read a little more of this. Great post. Thanks for the heads-up...This blog was very informative and knowledgeable…
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