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The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress. Open debate about U.S. policy towards Israel does not occur there." --Mearsheimer and Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2005 
NEW - Dec. 17, 2006 Brasscheck TV: Congressman Findley on how the Israel Lobby controls US foreign policy November 25, 2006 - Xymphora extracts notable Jeffrey Blankfort's quotes on AIPAC - Nov 30 Iran: The Next War Rolling Stone article - James Bamford on the neocons' preparations for war with Iran and the Israeli connection via Larry Franklin. - Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel rate Congress March 20: Report - "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (.pdf) is a damning indictment of the Israel lobby and AIPAC. This is an important study by Professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, published by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Condensed version of the report published in the London Book Review. Update May 5:Rebuttal from Walt and Meirsheimer to attacks from the Israel Lobby (Dershowitz and others): The Storm over the Israel Lobby (article also makes good points about Palestinian - Israeli history) Click on section title to expand and contract text or Contract All | Expand All The Israel Lobby Debate AIPAC, the Religious Right and American Foreign Policy Serving Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Administration The Central Global Threat of Violence: The Axis of Aggression, the United States and Israel Torture, Death and Devastation. Are The Words "Israel: And "Jews" Synonymous? by Danny Schechter Justin Raymondo comments on the Walt and Meirsheimer report. Enough Is Enough. People have had it up to here with The Lobby Professor Says American Publisher Turned Him Down The House has had it with the Israel Lobby More debate over report on Israel's influence in US ISRAEL LOBBY REPORT FINDS SUPPORT: FORMER US ENVOY TO JERUSALEM (audio)
Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America?
Smear and Fear December 1, 2006: Analysis: High bar set in AIPAC case for the prosecutors. G"This was a counter-espionage investigation," said one retired [counter-intelligence] veteran, pointing out that it had been conducted by the counter-intelligence unit at the FBI's Washington Field Office. "They were looking for spies. Those guys don't do leaks,"... October 21, 2006: Pentagon denying Israelis security clearances. New York Sun reports State Department citing AIPAC leak case as basis for denying employees with dual Israeli-American citizenship security clearances. In one case, government lawyers argued Israel was 'actively spying on United States' to justify withdrawing clearance from worker. October 21, 2006: AIPAC focus of fresh FBI probe. The FBI is probing whether Congresswoman Jane Harman and the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC improperly cooperated to secure Harman is reelected as the top Democrat member on the House Intelligence Committee. The investigation will also attempt to determine whether AIPAC lobbied for [Larry] Franklin to get a position at the National Security Council. AIPAC ... considered such an appointment to be beneficial for the organization, as it would put Franklin in a position close to the president ... August 11, 2006: Lobbyists to Stand Trial in Spy Case - Judge refuses to throw the case out. AIPAC lobbyists Rosen and Weissman are to be tried under the Espionage Act which means the government considers that "national security is genuinely at risk" and that those who wrongly disclosed the information knew that its disclosure could harm the nation. No trial date set yet. ED. NOTE Nov 5, 2006 - Page is gone from the LA Times. I'm searching in archives for it. August 10, 2006:
Rumsfeld and Israeli spy Larry Franklin reported to have been very close April 14, 2006: Trial Unnerves Some U.S. Jewish Leaders January 27, 2006: The Forward reports that Rosen's lawyer will be Abbe Lowell, a top criminal lawyer who also represents Jack Abramoff. "The Aipac case "is exactly the kind of stuff where [Lowell's] interests converge, as an attorney and as someone who cares deeply about Israel and the Jewish people," says Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, spiritual leader of Congregation B'nai Tzedek, the Conservative synagogue Lowell attends in Potomac, Md." [Ed. - It would have been nice if the Rabbi would have said that Lowell cared deeply about the U.S. and his fellow citizens, whether Jewish or not.] January 20, 2006: Larry Franklin sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason. The trials of Rosen and Weissman are slated for April. From Xymphora: Israeli firm Check Point is acquiring the American computer security firm Sourcefire.
Sourcefire makes intrusion detection software known as 'Snort', which guards some classified U.S.
military and intelligence computers. Putting it in the hands of an Israeli company is tantamount
to handing all these secrets to the Israeli generals on a silver platter. Israel has what can only
be described as an abominable recordof misusing American secrets, from Pollard, to the most recent
controversy over selling secret American military technology to China....
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Treasongate by Ed. October 16, 2005 First, a couple of definitions. AIPAC: American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Considered by some as the most influential lobby in Washington. (Others think it is number two. Same difference.) Steve Rosen: AIPAC's top lobbyist and the brain behind the operation. Rosen made AIPAC what it is, a powerful lobby few in D.C. dare defy (those that do don't get re-elected), by extending its influence beyond Congress into the executive branch. For those not familiar with the case: the FBI has been investigating Rosen since 1999. While following Rosen, the FBI found out that Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin was passing secrets to Rosen who then gave them to Israeli officials. The press has tried to minimize the issue by claiming that the information passed had to do with information about impending attacks in Iraq fomented by Iran. However, note that Rosen was under investigation years before the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Also, the FBI found that Franklin had 82 classified documents in his home. Franklin worked in the Pentagon under Douglas Feith, Undersecretary for Defense and Likudnite (Likud is the Israeli right-wing party. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon belongs to the Likud - see Iraq: A War for Israel.) The Office of Special Plans under Douglas Feith together with the White House Iraq Groups are the ones that produced the barrage of propaganda that propelled the US public to approve of the attack on Iraq. It is reported that Franklin and Michael Ledeen (another fervent Likudnite) were at a meeting in Italy with those that forged the Niger documents (these documents are at the core of Plamegate: the outing of Valerie Plame, CIA covert agent and wife of Joe Wilson.) Thus we see that two cases of treason, AIPACgate and Plamegate, interconnect. The Franklin indictment refers to the people involved by codes not by names. Israeli Embassy officials, Naor Gilon (FO3) and Rafi Barak (FO1), were receiving the classified information from Rosen. Other Americans involved are David Satterfield (USGO2), who served as the second-ranking Middle East officer in the State Department and now is deputy to the US Ambassador to Iraq; Ken Pollack (USGO1) who served on the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, a key Democratic Party foreign policy advisor and now frequent TV political commentator and writer who pushed for war with Iraq (The Threatening Storm). Another reporter linked to Franklin is former CIA attorney Adam Ciralsky, who has worked for CBS and NBC. According to the Forward, CIralsky was "allegedly forced out of the CIA in 1999 during the course of an inquiry into his family background and his Jewish affiliations." Rosen boasted throughout the years of his access to US government secrets so many other government officials and politicians may be involved. These treason cases are but an indication of how the American Likudnites have hijacked U.S. foreign policy on behalf of Israel. The purpose seems to have been two fold: to assure the supremacy of Israel in the Middle East and to secure oil and other resources (water for one). As stated by an Israeli official (Odev Yinon in 1982) and later by the American Likudnite gang ( see "A Clean Break" and PNAC), the goal in the Middle East is to "atomize" i.e. break up Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Atomization is needed to remove nations that oppose further expansion (physical or economic) of Israel: Zionists believe that Israel should extend from the Nile (Egypt) to the Euphrates (Iraq). Part one is almost completed: grabbing the bulk of the Palestinian land and corralling Palestinians - those that are not ethnically cleansed - into ghettos that take up at most 8% of Palestinian land. Part two - atomizing the Arab nations - is in progress: Iraq will probably break up into 3 pieces; Syria has been driven out of Lebanon which will probably result in another Lebanese civil war and break up. The White House and Congress are well on their way of setting the stage for a full scale invasion of Syria and Iran (in this case only to control the oil-rich region): keep an eye on troop increases in Iraq [track troop levels] - the claim may be the Iraqi elections - and... heard about all those attacks and bombings of "jihadists" on the border with Syria? The border with Syria is already being softened. Meantime, bombings are starting to occur in some areas of Iran. Troop levels:
Spying and other deeds: Dec 7, 2006: Updates on the espionage case of the USS Albuquerque (nuclear submarine) Petty Officer Ariel J. Weinmann. Posted Dec. 3, 2006: 1979 attempted assassination, by Israel, of John Gunther Dean, the US ambassador to Lebanon. Comparison to the recent Gemayel assassination in Lebaon. October 21, 2006: Pentagon denying Israelis-Americans security clearances. October 21, 2006: AIPAC focus of fresh FBI probe. Aug. 9, 2006 -- UPDATED 8/10. A U.S. Navy sailor is reportedly under investigation by Navy authorities with spying for Israel and desertion. April 14, 2006 - News 24 (South Africa) US spy threatens to squeal . In this case, Jonathan Pollard, another U.S. defense official that spied for Israel Dec 21, 2004 - US up in arms over Sino-Israel ties - illegal transfer of U.S. war technology to China Jan 24, 2004 - Israeli Asher Karni & Nuclear Terrorism Network - Karni stands accused of illegally sneaking 66 U.S.-made nuclear weapons detonators, via South Africa, his present home base for business, into Pakistan. UPDATE: June 25, 2005 - Frontline's report includes video May 21, 2000 - Israeli spies tapped Clinton e-mail April, 1996 - Pentagon, GAO Report Israeli Espionage And Illegal Technology Retransfer 1967- Israel attacks the USS Liberty, Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. 1954 - Israel bombs American interests in Egypt Iran in the sights Jan 19 Groundhog day in Washington Mustafa El-Labbad analyses the context of a time of reckoning for Iran while Emad Mekay catalogues efforts of Washington's right-wing lobbyists and think tanks to prepare the way for war. June 7 Pro-Israel group pushes tough U.S. policy on Iran
2005: UN nuclear watchdog rebuts claims that Iran is trying to make A-bomb AIPAC in D.C. September 28: Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2006 Congressional Candidates August 31: US may consider additional [$2 billion] aid to IDF According to diplomatic sources in Jerusalem, the government was considering asking for additional aid - one report said a request might be for $2b. August 20: [Our VA system is underfunded by $3 billion yet...] The Bush administration has agreed to an Israel demand that a [$9 billion] loan guarantee deal be extended by an additional three years, until 2011. Josua Frank
Entrenched Hypocrisy Hillary Clinton, AIPAC and Iran.
As the top Democratic recipient of pro-Israel funds for the 2006 election cycle thus far, pocketing over
$58,000 as of October 31 last year, Senator Clinton now has Iran in her crosshairs. Ý 1992: AIPAC's president boasts of who AIPAC owns (Bill Cinton included) Pre 9/11: AIPAC and Congress Articles March 6, 2006: An excellent commentary from Undernews on how the New York Times is trying to spin the AIPAC case -Ýobviously a case of pure espionage -Ýas an assault on freedom of the press, even though the defendants aren't journalists.Ý February 3, 2006:
A Treasonous Camarilla: AIPAC espionage case points
to larger spy scandal 7 January 2006:
AIPAC on Trial The 51st State AIPAC can place you by the elbow of the president SPECIAL REPORT: AIPAC/Likudnik
Larry Franklin Arrested for Espionage on Behalf of Israel AIPAC and Espionage: Guilty as Hell News 10/20: ED. The list of news articles below is not complete and more will be added. Hopefully one will be an interesting article in The New York Times, around May 2005, that reports that the FBI made a deal with AIPAC so that AIPAC could officially stay out of the investigation. The deal had four conditions. I remember two: 1) the two officials nabbed in the investigation, Rosen and Weissman, had to leave AIPAC and 2) AIPAC could not pay the lawyers' fees. I recall these because then the article proceeded to say that AIPAC had been paying the fees at the tune of about $1.5 million in a month. I have searched for this article in the NY Times archives with no luck. From Jerusalem Post: From Jerusalem Post: From JTA: From Jerusalem Post: From New York Times: From The Washington Times: From SFGate: From Haaretz: From Cleveland Jewish News: From WRMEA: External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein. SDP does not necessarily endorse the material on this website unless it is an official SDP statement. 
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