AIPAC is shaping foreign policy to favor Israel regardless of any negative implications to America.

AIPAC

By  MJ Rosenberg

I agree completely that the idea of the governing Iranian junta possessing a nuclear weapon is appalling. But the United States can do better than punishing the people in the street — millions of whom hate the regime a lot more than we do.

As for Israel, it could make our job easier by stopping the settlements and allowing a viable Palestinian state to be created in he West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The horrific treatment of the Palestinians by Israel is the #1 thing the mullahs have going for them as they line up the Muslim world behind them and against us. Israel can take that pretext away by ending the occupation.

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This is how the Israel Lobby Works.

thenation.com — A thunderous, coordinated assault against one of President Obama’s intelligence picks is now underway by the Israel Lobby. The target is Charles Freeman, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, former top Pentagon official during the Reagan administration, and president of the Middle East Policy Council, who is slated to become chairman of the Nat’l Intelligence Council

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