Lets put A.I.P.A.C. under the microscope. These Kikes have to go. Now!

[William Robert]

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/wh...steningto.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_A...4/0407027.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...mber=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/htm...iltrated_.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."

[William Robert]

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/03091...nservatism.htm

Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement:

http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vo...rstandIII.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/InternationalInte...?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...ic.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...ic.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...ic.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

[William Robert]

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

[Abzug Hoffman]

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

[William Robert]

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.

[William Robert]

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

[William Robert]

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=

[William Robert]

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...bby/index2.htm





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.

[William Robert]

Israel still top recipient of US foreign aid
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...362402,00.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.

[William Robert]

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

[remnant]

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

[William Robert]

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=3...=x&size=1&hd=0

[William Robert]

American senators to visit Israel
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...366186,00.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


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


Opposition Chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu,


Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni



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.

[Chain]

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...=Google+Search
although google news has one link:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...nG=Search+News
Typing in "senate knesset" into the search box of the US Senate also brings no result:
http://www.senate.gov/general/search...er=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?

[1st Edu]

Do not forget.

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

[Mark Faust]

Someone sticky this thread!

[Chain]

Originally Posted by remnant

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

What 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

[remnant]

" Democrats trapped by AIPAC on Iran" etc.

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

Some good insights from inside the Tribe

[William Robert]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7...367124,00.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.

Originally Posted by Billy Bob

American senators to visit Israel
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...366186,00.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


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


Opposition Chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu,


Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni



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.

[William Robert]

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



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/sto...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.