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Thread ID: 19296 | Posts: 11 | Started: 2005-07-26
2005-07-26 17:59 | User Profile
Big full-page thing today...
Is the Council for the National Interest a worthy group? Worth a check? Or does my name just go onto a database of potential anti-Semites?
2005-07-26 18:15 | User Profile
I just checked, and your name's already on the list.
2005-07-26 18:56 | User Profile
[B][SIZE=4]AIPAC'S AGENDA IS NOT AMERICA'S[/SIZE][/B]
This ad appeared in the New York Times on Friday, May 27, 2005, and in the Washington Times on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, during the AIPAC annual policy conference. Join the campaign to contain and constrain the Israel lobby, especially the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and its allies, including Christian Zionists.
The top priority for Middle East peace is to contain the overwhelming influence on U.S. Middle East policy by the right-wing government of Israel.
Almost every nation is perplexed at American permissiveness towards Israel, which has resulted in a nation without borders and policies without common sense.
"Doing work as a lobbyist, I often think: What would the Israelis want me to do - so, where is the line between being a pro-Israel lobbyist and representing the wishes of somebody else? I don't know where that line is. . . . When does [our work] change from being a cheerleader to being a client?"
The Debate We Are Missing
The Israel lobby is out of control. It shuts down any rational debate or even any discussion of Israel's actions. Three past heads of Israel's security service, Shin Bet, have said that the actions of the present Israeli government are self-destructive, yet those views are not heard by the American public.
The many organizations that make up the Israel lobby include several whose main effort is to intimidate editors and producers in the media and prevent an open discourse about Israeli policies and our uncritical support for those policies.
What Is Good for Israel Is Not Always Good for America
The agenda of AIPAC and of the Israel lobby has never been the agenda of America in the Middle East. The present government of Israel is undermining long-term American interests and the war on terror. Even the half-step of disengagement from Gaza and a few of the Jewish colonies on the West Bank is not what Palestinians and a majority of peace-seeking Israelis have dreamed of and struggled for.
"We have one advantage over other organizations - we only have to promote the state of Israel."
Israel, Stop Spying on America!
The close relationship of the Israeli lobby with the embassy of Israel and its right-wing government has created conditions for widespread espionage that has undermined the formation of credible policies for the United States in the Middle East.
Our national security has been breached and incidents have continued almost up to this day.
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger said that he could not "conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by" Jonathan Jay Pollard, a Naval Intelligence officer currently serving a life sentence for selling a roomful of classified documents to Israel.
Now we have another break in American intelligence, this one resulting in the arrest of a mid-level Defense Department analyst, Larry Franklin. The case directly involves high-ranking AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. AIPAC vigorously defended both men for months before firing them to preserve AIPAC's credibility with their contributors and with members of Congress. Franklin is accused of passing classified information on to the AIPAC officials, who in turn called the Israeli embassy and a reporter at the Washington Post. Franklin approached AIPAC because he wanted them to influence President George W. Bush.
Promoting the agenda of the government of Israel, even using U.S. classified information to do so, has been one basic strategy of the Israel lobby.
The Lobby Reveals Itself
Lobby spokespersons are quite brazen in describing how they operate:
"It is routine for us to say: This is our policy on a certain issue, but we must check what the Israelis think."
And they like to work in the dark:
"A lobby is like a night flower: It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun."
Three Israeli generals are on the program for AIPAC's annual policy conference this week, but not a single American in uniform is there. If an American goal in invading Iraq was to ensure Israeli security, then why didn't AIPAC honor one of the wounded Americans instead of three Israeli generals?
New Legislation is Needed
Join the campaign to support legislation that will apply to all lobbies working on behalf of foreign governments. We propose a Foreign Lobby Registration Act (FLORA), an act designed to make lobbies supporting foreign governments more transparent and accountable to the American people. It will also make clear that those lobbies do not work on behalf of American interests but, in fact, work to support the narrow interests of a foreign government.
More than 60% of American voters according to a Zogby International poll believe AIPAC should be registered as the agent of a foreign government. If implemented under a FLORA, this would mean transparency in resources used by AIPAC dedicated to furthering the right-wing government of Israel. Contributors would have to be publicly listed. It would also put an end to the undeserved tax-exempt status that some foreign lobbies enjoy.
We are joining with other organizations and individuals, including former congressmen, to promote such legislation this year.
The Council for the National Interest Foundation (CNIF) is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization that works to promote a rational and even-handed Middle East policy in the long-term interest of America, Israel, and the Arab states. It was founded fifteen years ago by former Congressmen Paul Findley (R-Illinois) and Paul "Pete" McCloskey (R-California) and its vice chairman is former Senator James Abourezk (D-South Dakota). We hold Capitol Hill hearings on the Middle East peace process and American policy towards the entire region. See our websites or call us at 800-296-6958.
Council for the National Interest Foundation 1250 4th Street SW Suite WG-1 Washington, DC 20024 800-296-6958 [email]inform@cnionline.org[/email] [url]www.rescuemideastpolicy.com[/url] [url]www.cnionline.org[/url] [url]http://www.cnionline.org/[/url]
2005-07-26 21:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Hugh Lincoln]Big full-page thing today...
Is the Council for the National Interest a worthy group? Worth a check? Or does my name just go onto a database of potential anti-Semites?[/QUOTE]
Funny that you guys said that, the second week that I put up my anti-Zionist sign on my lawn they came by and took a movie of the sign and property, a week later two of them came to talk to me and I kick them out of my property.....a week later while working on my lawn two more came and took my picture, I really blew up then, I chase them down and they almost shit their pantys (a guy and a woman) they drove of the road in their SUV and took off I don't know where.
That's why I like to live alone and with no one around me, that way anyone that I see is the enemy unless proven otherwise.
2005-07-27 04:13 | User Profile
Excellent ad! I'm surprised the Washington Times ran it. Hopefully it'll wake some people up.
2005-07-27 20:16 | User Profile
Ponce, i would have gladly paid money to watch that!
ha ha
2005-07-27 21:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]Funny that you guys said that, the second week that I put up my anti-Zionist sign on my lawn they came by and took a movie of the sign and property, a week later two of them came to talk to me and I kick them out of my property.....a week later while working on my lawn two more came and took my picture, I really blew up then, I chase them down and they almost shit their pantys (a guy and a woman) they drove of the road in their SUV and took off I don't know where.
That's why I like to live alone and with no one around me, that way anyone that I see is the enemy unless proven otherwise.[/QUOTE]Get their license plate numbers, try to find out who they are. Better yet, photograph, or better still, videotape the bastards. These creeps aren't used to people standing up to them.
2005-07-27 22:43 | User Profile
The problem was that when they took my picture and I went towards them they took off like a bullet, I ran into my home to grab my pick up keys and then drove to my German gate to lift it then got back in my pick up and gave chase.....by this time they were about four miles away from me but I was pissed off and drove pretty fast.
If I have had my four wheel drive SUV I would have gone after them all the way.
Because this is a tourist area yesterday (even with only one road) I had three cars stopping to take a picture of my sign and today one.....happens all the time but more in summer.
I was looking today at the permit that I got from the city in order to put up the sign and that was on March 21 03.
2005-07-28 11:46 | User Profile
AIPAC = Another Israeli Pilfering Americas Coffers.
[QUOTE]The Council for the National Interest Foundation (CNIF) is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization that works to promote a rational and even-handed Middle East policy in the long-term interest of America, Israel, and the Arab states. It was founded fifteen years ago by former Congressmen Paul Findley (R-Illinois) and Paul "Pete" McCloskey (R-California) and its vice chairman is former Senator James Abourezk (D-South Dakota). We hold Capitol Hill hearings on the Middle East peace process and American policy towards the entire region. See our websites or call us at 800-296-6958.[/QUOTE]
The persons cited in the above paragraph are all mentioned in an excellent book, "They Dare To Speak Out", by Paul Findley, that exposes the machinations of the zionut lobby in hounding anyone whom they percieve as being less than a groveling Izy worshiping sycophant.
2005-07-28 17:21 | User Profile
Ponce: What does your sign say?
2005-07-28 23:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce] Because this is a tourist area yesterday (even with only one road) I had three cars stopping to take a picture of my sign and today one.....happens all the time but more in summer.[/QUOTE]So....how do you know who is the local Zionist spy, and who is the local tourist who just wants to read your sign? I suppose the local Ziothugs must act guilty and run away when they see you, whereas the tourists smile and wave. Maybe they like your sign. What does it say?