- Reuven Koret, the publisher of Israel Insider and the
guy who bravely told Daniel Pipes to stuff it when Pipes tried to secretly
force Israel Insider to stop publishing Barry Chamish (and thus revealed
that Pipes is a covert censor of views which he feels are unhelpful to
the Zionist cause), is of the opinion that the AIPAC espionage investigation
is simply the American way of putting pressure on American Jews to accept
American foreign policy in the Middle East, which includes the 'Roadmap'
and the necessity to eventually deal with the Palestinians.
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- Koret believes that the whole AIPAC matter is just an
FBI sting operation set up to put pressure on AIPAC, a view which cannot
be right as we know that the FBI had been investigating AIPAC long before
Larry Franklin came into the picture, and thus must have suspected high-level
espionage years before it could come into anybody's head to use it to put
a damper on AIPAC's current enthusiasms.
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- Having said that, the fact that the FBI has been allowed
to continue its investigation as long as it has, and is apparently able
to reach right up to the top of AIPAC with its indictments, would clearly
require approval from the highest levels of the American government.
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- In other words, even if AIPAC had committed the worst
treason imaginable (and I am certain that it has), we would never have
heard of it unless the Bush Administration wanted to use it to send a message
to American Jews that they are not quite as powerful as they think they
are, and they can't assume constant support regardless of how radical a
position they may want to take.
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- AIPAC is allowed to appear powerful only as long as radical
Zionism suits the American Establishment. If the Palestinians can make
a case that the existence of a viable and just Palestinian state is in
the interests of the American Powers That Be, and can make that case in
the context of the current American disaster in Iraq and the corresponding
erosion of perceived American power around the world (not to mention the
fact that it was entirely Zionists and mostly Jews that led the United
States into the disaster), AIPAC may suddenly appear not to be as all-powerful
as it appears to be today.
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- AIPAC had better enjoy the blow job from Nancy Pelosi
(which has to go down as one of the most cravenly mendacious speeches in
American history, and enough to make anyone despair of the Democrats ever
becoming a party that anyone would want to vote for), as it may be a while
before they get another one.
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- http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/06/aipac-and-real-power.html
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