Mainstream Press Misses the King of the Hill

The Israel Lobby’s Return to Congress

By ALISON WEIR

August 11, 2011

“You might think that twenty percent of the American Congress going on all-expense-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country – paid for by a lobby for that country – would be considered newsworthy. Especially when the top Congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips.

A staff member of one representative participating in this month’s junkets said the representative had no choice. If the Congressional rep didn’t go on the trip, the rep would be targeted by AIPAC, large quantities of money, including massive out-of-state money, would be raised for the opponent in the next election, and quite likely the representative would be defeated. The staffer said that the Israel Lobby is far too powerful to ignore and that American voters have no knowledge of what’s going on.”

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PH...our spineless “AIPAC controlled” congresspeople put Israel first instead of the USA…each time!

Click on link for rest of the details:

http://www.counterpunch.org/weir08112011.html

Howard, you have to be kidding.  The issies are the ones who will not recognize the opposition or negotiate. 

Robert, I already contacted http://www.congress.org and told Steny Hoyer to stay there with his friends, settle in the occupied territories and throw a couple rocks at the Palestinians, it might make them feel better about themselves, just like real Israelis.

My congressman is not there. darn.  I will get on him
to go.
Great country to visit.
3 cheers for Israel.  Its a Jewish neighborhood and no
reason not to build there.
if only those countries who have been attacking Israel
since 1948 would make peace with them, what improvement
in their lives would begin to happen !

Representatives Going on an Israel Lobby Junket

On August 10, 2011, in Take Action, by Move Over AIPAC!

“Partial list of the 81 Congresspeople touring Israel on an AIPAC-affiliate junket during the August Congressional Recess:

Mo Brooks R-5 AL
Eric Cantor R-7 VA
Russ Carnahan D-3 MO
Steve Chabot R-1 OH (went last month)
David Cicilline D-1 RI
Yvette Clarke D-11 NY
Mark Critz D- 12 PA
Scott DesJarlais R- 4 TN
Chuck Fleischman R-3 TN
John Garamendi D-10 CA
Kay Granger R-12 TX
Michael Grimm NY-13
Janice Hahn D-36 CA
Jaime Herrera Buetler R-3 WA
Mazie Hirono D- 2 HI
Steny Hoyer D-5 MD
Jesse Jr. Jackson D-2 IL
Kevin McCarthy CA-22
Gwen Moore D-4 WI
Bill Owens D-23 NY
Steven Palazzo R-4 MS
Ed Perlmutter D-7 CO
Tom Price R-6 GA
Peter Roskam R-6 IL
Loretta Sanchez D-47 CA
David Schweikert R-5 AZ
Adam Smith D-9 WA
Steve Southerland R-2 FLA
Betty Sutton D-13 OH
Scott Tipton R-3 CO
Allen West R-22 FL
Frederica Wilson D-17 FL
Kevin Yoder R-3 KS

Is your congressperson going to Israel instead of working in district during the recess?

Take action!

3. Visit your Congressperson’s office this month during the August Recess (when your Rep should be home).”

http://www.moveoveraipac.org/2011/08/representatives-going-on-an-israel-lobby-junket/

By eric1071517, August 12 at 3:33 pm

“Is Israel not surrounded on every border by extremist terrorists lusting for their demise?”

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Hey Eric...

Israel with its massive “Undeclared” nuclear & chemical weapons stockpiles (WMD) & with its massive American made weapons arsenals have been & are on a mission to continue with their zionist’s goals/agenda. Steal more land, build more “for Jews only” settlements/roads and ethnic cleansing/brutal occupation of the Palestinian people.

Israel has slaughtered hundreds/thousands of women and children/civilians with their use of 500 pounds+ bombs, cluster bombs, white phosphorus, missiles…etc… on homes, villages, towns, cities, refugee camps, schools, farms, hospitals, UN centers…

Why should Israel consed any lands that they have acquired, is Israel not a sovereign nation? Is Israel not
surrounded on every border by extremist terrorists lusting
for their demise?

ZION EXISTS ON FOUL AIR..CLEAN FRESH AIR AND SUNLIGHT IS ITS
ENEMY…AND SO IS TRUTH…

Howard.

“IT is Israeli land. Not taken from anybody unless it
was from a country or countries that started wars
against Israel”

Try and tell that to the 391,000 Palestinians expelled between 1 December 1947 and the beginning of the 1948 War as documented by the Israeli Defence Forces Intelligen­ce Service.

Google “The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine Israeli Defence Forces Intelligen­ce Service”

In a June 2009 speech, under pressure from the Obama administration, Netanyahu declared his acceptance of a two-state solution. It was a patently insincere speech, for he uttered not the slightest reproach when senior members of his own Likud Party and ministers in his government announced the formation of a thirty-nine-member Land of Israel Caucus, the largest caucus in the Knesset. The co-chair of the caucus is Ze’ev Elkin, head of the party’s parliamentary delegation. It includes the Likud’s Reuven Rivlin, Knesset speaker; Benny Begin, a member of the so-called Septet, Netanyahu’s seven-member inner security cabinet, which passes on all major government decisions; as well as several other ministers and deputy ministers in Netanyahu’s cabinet. Haaretz reported at the time that the only two Likud ministers in his government who did not support the caucus were Dan Meridor and Netanyahu himself. Only one minister, Michael Eitan, objected to it, calling the caucus a “thunderous contradiction” of Netanyahu’s declared commitment to a two-state accord.

The official goal of the caucus is to strengthen “Israel’s grasp on the entire Land of Israel.” If that’s not clear enough, Begin helpfully elaborated: “The establishment of a foreign independent sovereign state headed by the PLO in parts of the Land of Israel stands in opposition to two basic ideas that are both supported by a majority of the Knesset: the absolute historic right of the Nation of Israel to the Land of Israel and the right of the State of Israel to national security.”
http://www.usmep.us/usmep/2011/06/09/can-obama-beat-the-israel-lobby/

Who is going to stop Apartheid Israel from anything regarding stealing more Palestinian land/occupation?

Obama & Hilary Clinton…LOL!!!

All of them are spineless and are on their knees with their heads deep down in AIPAC’s feeding troughs!!!

IT is Israeli land. Not taken from anybody unless it
was from a country or countries that started wars
against Israel; and those countries have yet to make a
peace accord. Or recognize Israel.

Usurping land in Palestine is a bloody, time honored tradition.

Building on Palestinian land is beyond “controversial”. It is illegal and calculatedly provocative It will provoke missiles to be fired at Israel, and the Israelis will use these missiles as the excuse for more brutal incursions into Palestinian land. Then, since the land is cleared….

Our country can’t do the little things right. To be great, America has to do big things.

Memo to America: Stop waiting for Democrats and Republicans to save you. It’s bad for your health and your future. Can’t you tell?

“WAKE UP PEOPLE!” 
Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )

Another provocative and unpeaceful move on the part of the Israelis who plan to take over the whole region.

Stop supporting this rotten-hearted game!

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that reducing aid to Israel will not be suggested by either the Democrats or the Republicans in the debt ceiling negotiations.

Israel with the support of the U.S. (no matter how wishy-washy the White House or the State Department tries to sound) is a racist colonialist destabilizing cancerous evil-in-perpetuity.