How Israel Lobby AIPAC took control of US foreign policy
source: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/features/?id=33233
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In the early 1960s, Senator William J. Fulbright fought to force the American Zionist Council to register as agents of a foreign government. The Council eluded registration by reorganizing as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC has since become what Fulbright most feared: a foreign agent dominating American foreign policy while disguised as a domestic lobby.
Israelis and pro-Israelis object when they hear that charge. How, they ask, can we so few wield such influence over so many? Answer: it’s all in the math. And in the single-issue advocacy brought to bear on US policy-making by dozens of ‘domestic’ organizations that now compose the Israel lobby, with AIPAC its most visible force.
The political math was enabled by Senator John McCain whose support for all things Israeli ensured him the GOP nomination to succeed Christian-Zionist G.W. Bush. McCain’s style of campaign finance reform proved a perfect fit for the Diaspora-based fundraising on which the lobby relies. Co-sponsored by Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, this change in federal election law typifies how Israeli influence became systemic.
‘McCain-Feingold’ raised the amount (from $1,000 to $2,300) that candidates can receive from individuals in primary and general elections. A couple can now contribute a combined $9,200 to federal candidates: $4,600 in each of the primary and general elections. Primary elections, usuall low-budget, are particularly easy to sway.
Importantly for the Diaspora, this change also doubled the funds candidates can receive without regard to where those contributors reside. A candidate in Iowa, say, may have only a few pro-Israeli constituents. When campaign support is provided by a nationwide network of pro-Israelis, that candidate can more easily be persuaded to support policies sought by Tel Aviv.
Diaspora-based fundraising has long been used by the lobby with force-multiplying success to shape US foreign policy. Under the guise of reform, John McCain doubled the financial resources that the lobby can deploy to elect and retain its supporters.
Fulbright was Right
----------------more at the link, see the math! You will be knocked off your seat when you see how the lobby was able to manipulate our government and raise much money for who they wanted in office as well as what foreign policy like wars would be passed.
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This force-multiplier is now wielded in plain sight, with impunity and under cover of free speech, free elections, free press and even the freedom of religion. Therein lies the perils of an entangled alliance that induced the US to invade Iraq and now seeks war with Iran. By allowing foreign agents to operate as a domestic lobby, the US was induced to confuse Zionist interests with its own.
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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions -Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gaia666
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Humans... so silly. It is little a secret that your mind be so easily manipulated by those imbued by the Higher Truth. It is little a secret that there are those Chosen to rule over you. Your desire to boycott the Zionists grasps' shall leave you without. Cut off your Nose to spite your Face, will you? So entwined in the culture, they are, that popular opposition shall never be levied against.
Iran shall be conquered through willful ignorance -- acceptance of carefully concocted disinformation suggestively detrimental to the safety of the populous whilst existing almost entirely devoid of factual substance. Such manipulation of language to affect a means of control of the mind is nothing but a trivial exercise for those who follow the Path lit by Knowledge. This has been exercised countless times in the not-so-distant past, and shall be exercised countless times in the not-so-distant future. A human paralyzed by their blind faith in Authority is all the support that is required to carry out such policies.
Yet, there are those who exist in the Shadows, untouched by such manipulations and machinations. Some act with benevolence towards the populous. Peculiar creatures, they are, acting to assist in their plight. You shall only find such assistance packaged in highly questionable forms and scorned by the Authorities as Forbidden Fruits -- conspiracy theories, junk science, and the like. Such cleverly crafted outlets contain Truth yet are littered with Lies in increasing proportions in an attempt to obfuscate it from Vision. Those who craft such lore do so in good conscience, for they cannot reward compliance. Thus, it is intentionally assembled to reward critical and independent thought whilst punishing unfettered regurgitation. For, by this blueprint, it can be ensured that the chosen path of evolution is followed to its resolution.
You must think for yourself, otherwise it shall be done for you. They own your corporations, your media, your government, and your religious institutions. They own your mind and thoughts -- shaped from an amorphous stone of Human Will at birth and honed to a sculpture, standing in Perfect Obedience, at adulthood. You shall only be Free after surrendering the Lies which govern your Life. The free Man knows no Truths but that which makes him Free.
Boycott your existence as civilized individuals of a structured society. Only then shall you be free men once again. If you must seek guidance from external leadership, you are doomed to an eternity of servitude. For it is credulous at best to believe that those who govern act with the best interests for whom they govern in mind.
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Gaia666
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maasanova
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A boycott is a good start to end this cancer, but the real problem lies in our bought and paid for politicians. They're the real problem.
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe (or Israel), entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European (or Israeli) ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
- George Washington
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PhilistineTheArtLuvr
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I'm a Palestinian Christian, well, actaully my family is the Christian ones, I'm more of a militant atheist, and Jihad has nothing to do with us.
Palestine is a national movement and not an ideological or a religious cause.
I'm amused at how the racism the Jews suffered throughout Europe since the Crusaders and the Inquisition and culminated in the Holocaust has now been transfered to the Muslims and anything Arab.
Man, it's been exactly a 1000 years since this all began. Isn't time this antisemitic racism comes to an end?
Don't you racists get tired of yourselves? What a bunch of bores. - 2 years ago
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jlichman
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Not relevant for Movies, perfect for News.
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BarnabyJ
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Do IT!!!!! DO it because the Jihad wants you too!!!!
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BarnabyJ:
there you go, sell the fear. At least you didnt say anti semite or nazi in your comment
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aniehues
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OMG boycott everything out there? man, can't drink, can't eat...can't wear clothes or use my computer to write this (Intel Inside). Dang, time warner is used for my high speed internet...couldn't read this either without it. Lets boy every company out there. Our goverment is just screwed! boycott them. Our goverment has been screwing us for years upon years! we just have good media now (and bad) and more people are seeing it. You boycott all these companies you just break the economy even more.
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Highr0ller:
Highr0ller, as a Palestinian I want to thank you so much for your list of companies to boycott. The anti-Palestinian bias in the US MSM is so strong and constant (and totally irrational) I'm always surprised to find anyone who cares about the hell we are going through back home.
I also want to thank Current for publishing this article. - 2 years ago
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This force-multiplier is now wielded in plain sight, with impunity and under cover of free speech, free elections, free press and even the freedom of religion. Therein lies the perils of an entangled alliance that induced the US to invade Iraq and now seeks war with Iran. By allowing foreign agents to operate as a domestic lobby, the US was induced to confuse Zionist interests with its own.
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