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This statement on the Middle East was dated 31st January, 1970, and was read on 3rd February, the day after Bertrand Russell's death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo.
The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profound miscalculation. The bombing raids deep into Egyptian territory will not persuade the civilian population to surrender, but will stiffen their resolve to resist. This is the lesson of all aerial bombardment.
The Vietnamese who have endured years of American heavy bombing have responded not by capitulation but by shooting down more enemy aircraft. In 1940 my own fellow countrymen resisted Hitler's bombing raids with unprecedented unity and determination. For this reason, the present Israeli attacks will fail in their essential purpose, but at the same time they must be condemned vigorously throughout the world.
The development of the crisis in the Middle East is both dangerous and instructive. For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.
The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I.F. Stone as “the moral millstone around the neck of world Jewry.” Many of the refugees are now well into the third decade of their precarious existence in temporary settlements. The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their number have increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.
We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. Not only does Israel condemn a vast number. of refugees to misery; not only are many Arabs under occupation condemned to military rule; but also Israel condemns the Arab nations only recently emerging from colonial status, to continued impoverishment as military demands take precedence over national development.
All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in June, 1967. A new world campaign is needed to help bring justice to the long-suffering people of the Middle East.This statement on the Middle East was dated 31st January, 1970, and was read on 3rd... more
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UPDATE: I was informed by a reader with a link to a subsequent vote that Ron Paul voted No on the following day. This would mean that only a total of 4 men in the House voted to keep the First Amendment alive.
Two Republicans voted No. One Greek Orthodox Palestinian from Michigan named Justin Amash voted No. He never went on any trips paid for by lobbyists. Paul Broun of Georgia came to the Congress late in life and worked at a real job as a doctor before politics.
No member of the Hispanic caucus and no other member of the Black caucus voted to support your 1st Amendment rights.
The only Democrat to vote No is a Muslim Keith Ellison.
The big trade union liberals did not vote No. I guess they are not worried about union workers getting arrested. No feminist voted No. No woman voted No. Not one of the anti-war activists voted No. Not one person who went on a junket paid for by the Aspen Institute voted No. Not one of the radicals who took trips to Cuba to show solidarity with Fidel voted No. Not one Catholic voted No. Not one Jew voted No.
I have decided to also list all trips to Israel so the voters know who is listens to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and not to us.UPDATE: I was informed by a reader with a link to a subsequent vote that Ron Paul... more
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WATCH: The radio show, based in Birmingham, was supposed to be an opportunity for Romney to try and woo over some hardcore Southern Conservatives. But after the following interview, Romney might want to stick to wealthy enclaves and Utah for votes on election day.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31940WATCH: The radio show, based in Birmingham, was supposed to be an opportunity for... more
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One should note that Meir Dagan is not addressing the issue that Iran's nuclear program has not been declared a nuclear weapons program by the IAEA or any of the other 16 intelligence agencies.
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Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan said in an interview on CBS News' 60 Minutes that there is yet "more time" on the Iranian nuclear program, and that the international community should not rush into a military option.
Dagan sparked controversy last year when he stated that an Israeli airstrike on Iran's nuclear reactors would be "a silly idea that would not grant any advantage." He continued that "Whoever attacks Iran must understand that he may start a regional war in which missiles from Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon will be fired. The Iranian problem must be made an international problem and we must continue to act to delay the development of Iran's nuclear capabilities," Dagan said.
In his interview with CBS, Dagan called the Iranian regime "very rational", later qualifying that statement by saying that the Tehran-based regime's version of rationality is "not exactly rational based on what I call Western thinking... but no doubt they are considering all the implications of their actions," he said.One should note that Meir Dagan is not addressing the issue that Iran's nuclear... more
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Wow...just wow. Hat tip to Keith Johnson from Revolt of The Plebs blog, which I cannot post here because Current recognizes the site as spam.
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Groups of Evangelical Christian Zionists from the U.S. are providing free labor to illegal Jewish settlers in the West Bank of occupied Palestine.
According to National Public Radio, “The Christian volunteers pay for their tickets and cover their own expenses to come. They work for about six weeks at a time, mostly in the wineries. Hundreds take part every year. It’s a kind of a work-stay program with a spiritual purpose.”
We don’t bring people here that are expecting mud baths and skin treatments and things like that,” says Waller. “We’re kind of rough guys, nice guys, a lot of us are rednecks from the South, wanting to do a good thing and to help people.”
Is that right, Waller? Let’s let Rabbi Ovadia Yosef tell you why he thinks you are, and why you’re really there:
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel.”
“In Israel, death has no dominion over them…With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant…That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.”
“Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”Wow...just wow. Hat tip to Keith Johnson from Revolt of The Plebs blog, which I cannot... more
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AIPAC Founder I.L. Kenen identified in FBI documents as Cleveland member of the Communist Party (CPUSA) in 1939
These recently released FBI source documents have appeared on the web site of IRmep and available here. We are urging all of you to save this PDF file on your hard drive. It is 198 pages loaded with additional subversives – even contemporaries – still in government, tax-free foundation service! A wealth resource beyond belief.
Our just now earlier post provides additional information – and names – on espionage cell activities in the US in the 1940s.
This is not surprising to Americans that have informed themselves about the Neoconservatives. The ‘neocons’ have always been recognized as cadre of the Far Left of American politics.
The subversion of America’s heritage whether it be pro-war, subversion from our pulpits, unlimited debt and spending, or other treacheries, destroying America’s independence has always been the long term agenda.
It is suicidal that we as Americans subsidize traitors with our own money by awarding them IRS subsidized tax-free exemptions.AIPAC Founder I.L. Kenen identified in FBI documents as Cleveland member of the... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 18:28 EST
President Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized the Republican presidential candidates who have openly advocated military action against Iran if they refused to dismantle their nuclear program.
He said there was still time to work on resolving the issue diplomatically, and that the new stricter sanctions placed on the country would force them back to the negotiating table.
“What’s said on the campaign trail, you know, those folks don’t have a lot of responsibilities,” Obama said. “They’re not commander in chief. And when I see the casualness with which some of these folks talk about war, I’m reminded of the costs involved in war. I’m reminded of the decision that I have to make, in terms of sending our young men and women into battle, and the impacts that has on their lives, the impact it has on our national security, the impact it has on our economy.”
Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have all repeatedly criticized Obama for allegedly being too soft on Iran.
“This is not a game,” Obama continued. “And there’s nothing casual about it. And, you know, when I see some of these folks who had a lot of bluster and a lot of big talk, but when you actually ask them, specifically, what they would do, it turns out they repeat the things that we’ve been doing over the last three years. It indicates to me that that’s more about politics than actually trying to solve a difficult problem.”
Gingrich has said that as president he would bomb Iran if they refused to halt their nuclear program. Likewise, Santorum has said the U.S. should destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, while Romney has said the U.S. “cannot afford to wait much longer” for diplomacy to work.
“Now, the one thing that we have not done, is we haven’t launched a war,” he said. “If some of these folks think that it’s time to launch a war, they should say so. And they should explain to the American people exactly why they would do that and what the consequences would be. Everything else is just talk.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/06/obama-slams-casual-gop-talk-of-war-with-iran/
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"Right On BO, I Totally Agree!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 18:28 EST
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Truth Dig - Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Washington, D.C., at the Occupy AIPAC protest. Please read article and share, following is an excerpt.
AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent:
"...The battle for justice in the Middle East is our battle. It is part of the great battle against the corporate forces of death that reign over us—the fossil fuel industry, the weapons manufacturers, the security and surveillance state, the speculators on Wall Street, the oligarchic elites who assault our poor, our working men and women, our children, one in four of whom depend on food stamps to eat, the elites who are destroying our ecosystem with its trees, its air and its water and throwing into doubt our survival as a species.
What is being done in Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison, is a pale reflection of what is slowly happening to the rest of us. It is a window into the rise of the global security state, our new governing system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism.” It is a reflection of a world where the powerful are not bound by law, either on Wall Street or in the shattered remains of the countries we invade and occupy, including Iraq with its hundreds of thousands of dead. And one of the greatest purveyors of this demented ideology of violence for the sake of violence, this flagrant disregard for the rule of domestic and international law, is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
I spent seven years in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I lived for two of those seven years in Jerusalem. AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues, some of whom hold power in Israel and some of whom hold power in Washington, who believe that because they have the capacity to war wage they have a right to wage war, whose loyalty, in the end, is not to the citizens of Israel or Palestine or the United States but the corporate elites, the defense contractors, those who make war a business, those who have turned ordinary Palestinians, Israelis and Americans, along with hundreds of millions of the world’s poor, into commodities to exploit, repress and control..."
Please read more at : http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/aipac_works_for_the_1_percent_20120304/Truth Dig - Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Washington, D.C., at the... more
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PBS reports that Iran is following all safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA is unable to produce any credible evidence that Iran was interested in producing a nuclear weapon in the past.
Iran is producing low-enriched uranium for the Tehran Research Reactor. They have been honest in their declarations of the number of centrifuges they possess for enrichment. The IAEA is unaware of any facilities for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.
It appears that Iran is following all safeguards and guidelines given by the IAEA and has no intention of producing a nuclear weapon.
Source: PBS.orgPBS reports that Iran is following all safeguards of the International Atomic Energy... more
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Like George W. Bush before them, these war hungry politicians have never seen a battlefield. Thankfully, there are cooler heads and smarter people willing to challenge those increasing calls for war with Iran.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31740Like George W. Bush before them, these war hungry politicians have never seen a... more
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The collective push by the mainstream media to sell Americans on the mass murder of Iranians is explained in this video.The collective push by the mainstream media to sell Americans on the mass murder of... more
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President Obama met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks about Iran’s nuclear program. It seems that Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities by military action. On the other hand, the U.S. wants more time for economic sanctions to take effects. If Israel takes any sort of action against Iran- it would force the U.S. to support Israel because of their alliance. This position put the Obama administration at odds with the Israeli’s government philosophy of wanting to start yet another conflict in the region that the U.S. would be forced into.President Obama met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks... more
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There he goes again, that warmonger and fanatic Netanyahu appealing to his AIPAC base about the inevitability of a pre-emptive strike on Iran. Israel will drag the US kicking and screaming into their next world war. And Netanyahu had the audacity to invoke Auschwitz. Really??? Just look at him wagging the dog with that fickeled finger of fate.There he goes again, that warmonger and fanatic Netanyahu appealing to his AIPAC base... more
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Although all 16 U.S. secret state intelligence agencies confirmed, again, that “Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier,” reaffirming the “consensus view” of not one, but two National Intelligence Estimates The New York Times reported last week, the march towards war continues.
Last Saturday The Daily Telegraph, citing The Wall Street Journal, reported that “military planners have asked for emergency funding from Congress to address a perceived shortfall in defence capabilities that could undermine the ability of US forces to respond to an Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Plans are underway “to modify weapons systems on ships that are at present vulnerable to Iranian fast-attack boats, many of which carry anti-ship missiles,” the Telegraph averred.
Feeling the heat from pro-Israeli lobby shops and congressional grifters, President Obama told The Atlantic on Friday:
When I say we’re not taking any option off the table, we mean it. I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don’t bluff. I also don’t, as a matter of sound policy, go around advertising exactly what our intentions are. But I think both the Iranian and the Israeli governments recognize that when the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we mean what we say.
In other words, despite repeated assertions by Iran that its nuclear program is strictly for civilian, not military, purposes facts borne out by multiple on-the-ground inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency and assessments by American spy agencies, the bar for Iranian “compliance” is continually set higher, moved from an “active program” to a mere “capability,” it is now clear that war is the first, last, indeed only “option.”
With this mind, Times’ journalists James Risen and Mark Mazzetti informed us that lying “at the center of the debate is the murky question of the ultimate ambitions of the leaders in Tehran.”
While there is “no dispute among American, Israeli and European intelligence officials that Iran has been enriching nuclear fuel and developing some necessary infrastructure to become a nuclear power,” the Times disclosed that secret state agencies also “believe that Iran has yet to decide whether to resume a parallel program to design a nuclear warhead–a program they believe was essentially halted in 2003 and which would be necessary for Iran to build a nuclear bomb.”
In his January 31 Senate testimony, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper “stated explicitly that American officials believe that Iran is preserving its options for a nuclear weapon, but said there was no evidence that it had made a decision on making a concerted push to build a weapon.”
Clapper’s assessment is shared by other top Obama administration officials including CIA Director David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey.
According to the Times:
Intelligence officials and outside analysts believe there is another possible explanation for Iran’s enrichment activity, besides a headlong race to build a bomb as quickly as possible. They say that Iran could be seeking to enhance its influence in the region by creating what some analysts call ‘strategic ambiguity’.
Given the belligerent rhetoric and hostile military maneuvers by the United States, Israel and NATO, why wouldn’t the Iranians aim for “strategic ambiguity” in their dealings with the West?
Ringed by U.S. military bases, targets of a CIA/Mossad “active program” to assassinate scientists, bomb military installations, wage cyberwar against nuclear facilities and impose crippling sanctions intended to crater their economy, it’s surprising the Iranians haven’t sought the illusory “security” afforded by possessing nuclear weapons!
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While disinformation specialists such as The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick shamefully assert that “Iran already has enough enriched uranium to build four nuclear weapons,” he trumpets this specious charge–and gets away with it–by hiding behind the skirts of anonymous “U.S. officials and nuclear experts.”
Continued with much, much more at http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2012/03/secret-state-agencies-no-hard-evidence-iran-building-nukes/Although all 16 U.S. secret state intelligence agencies confirmed, again, that... more
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By David Edwards
Sunday, March 4, 2012 14:15 EST
President Barack Obama on Sunday told a pro-Israel lobbying group that “loose talk of war” was only serving to benefit Iran because it was driving up the price of oil.
In his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the president warned of the “cost and consequences of war.”
“I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table and I mean what I say,” Obama explained. “Iran’s leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment, I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”
“And as I have made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests,” he continued. “Moving forward, I would ask that we all remember the weightiness of these issues.”
“Already there is too much loose talk of war. Over the last few weeks, such talk has only benefited the Iranian government, by driving up the price of oil, which they depend on to fund their nuclear program. For the sake of Israel’s security, America’s security, and the peace and security of the world, now is not the time for bluster; now is the time to let our increased pressure sink in, and to sustain the broad international coalition we have built.”
Last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed that there was a “strong likelihood” that Israel would launch strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in the coming months.
“Israel indicated they’re considering this (a strike), we’ve indicated our concerns,” Panetta told The Washington Post.
Israeli officials have reportedly said that they will not warn the U.S. before launching the attack. U.S. officials predict that any military action against Iran would result in terrorist attacks on the United States and U.S. troops overseas.
In just the last two months, Gasoline prices have surged by over 10 percent over fears of war with Iran.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/04/obama-to-aipac-loose-talk-of-war-inflating-gas-prices/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast March. 4, 2012.
"Let there be Peace!!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, March 4, 2012 14:15 EST
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This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of unclassified sources. Israel began its search for nuclear weapons at the inception of the state in 1948. As payment for Israeli participation in the Suez Crisis of 1956, France provided nuclear expertise and constructed a reactor complex for Israel at Dimona capable of large-scale plutonium production and reprocessing. The United States discovered the facility by 1958 and it was a subject of continual discussions between American presidents and Israeli prime ministers. Israel used delay and deception to at first keep the United States at bay, and later used the nuclear option as a bargaining chip for a consistent American conventional arms supply. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/43067-a-history-of-the-israeli-nuclear-weapons-program-the-third-temples-holy-of-holiesThis paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of... more
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Needless to say, this will set off conspiracy theories galore…
In an email exchange between Stratfor’s Vice President of Intelligence, Fred Burton, and someone named George Friedman, there is an inference that the body of Osama bin Laden was not dumped at sea, but was instead returned to the U.S....
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31593Needless to say, this will set off conspiracy theories galore…
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Why haven't these monsters been brought up on charges of conspiracy to commit genocide?
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Iran's citizens should be starved in order to curb Tehran's nuclear program, officials in Jerusalem said Wednesday ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to Washington.
"North Korea is halting its nuclear program in order to receive aid in food, and this is what should be done with Iran as well," one unnamed official said.Why haven't these monsters been brought up on charges of conspiracy to commit... more
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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan decried what he called Jewish control of the media and accused “Zionists” of trying to push America into war with Iran.
Farrakhan spoke for three hours Sunday before thousands of supporters at the Nation of Islam's 82nd annual Saviors’ Day celebration in Chicago.
In his address, along with the accusation about a war with Iran, Farrakhan asserted that Jews were responsible for a controversial 2008 cover of The New Yorker that depicted President Obama in Muslim garb, according to the Religion News Service.
“I’m not anti-Semitic, I’m just telling the truth,” he said. He also said that “In 100 years, they control movies, television, recording, publishing, commerce, radio, they own it all.”
"Jewish people were not the origin of Hollywood," he added, "but they took it over."
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said Farrakhan’s annual address to the Nation of Islam was dripping with anti-Semitism and hatred, and should stand as a textbook example of the continuing potency in some circles of anti-Semitism in America.Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan decried what he called Jewish control of the... more
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby organizations in the country. On March 4-6, AIPAC will hold its annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. The speakers include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich, and a host of other powerful politicians.
AIPAC has tremendous clout, but its influence has been disastrous for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. democracy. Here are 10 reasons why AIPAC is so dangerous.
They forgot the most important reason to keep an eye on AIPAC: they undermine US security by spying for Israel and were brought up on criminal charges of passing classified information in 2008.
1. AIPAC is lobbying Congress to promote a military confrontation with Iran.
2. AIPAC promotes Israeli policies that are in direct opposition to international law.
3. AIPAC’s call for unconditional support for the Israeli government threatens our national security.
4. AIPAC undermines American support for democracy movements in the Arab world.
5. AIPAC makes the United States a pariah at the U.N.
6. AIPAC attacks politicians who question unconditional support of Israel.
7. AIPAC attempts to silence all criticism of Israel by labeling critics as “anti-Semitic,” “de-legitimizers,” or “self-hating Jews.”
8. AIPAC feeds U.S. government officials a distorted view of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
9. AIPAC lobbies for billions of U.S. tax dollars to go to Israel instead of rebuilding America.
10. Money to Israel takes funds from world’s poor.The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby... more
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