Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Israeli Interests Lease/Own Our Congress

The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations together control over 50 PACs across America. Why is this a problem? Its the reason why America has a lopsided support of Israel. This is despite the rogue behavior of this nuclear-armed country. The 50 PACs allows the limits of contributions to be multiplied by 50 times. This effectively allows AIPAC and the Conference to contribute more than $ 500,000 to each candidate per election cycle. With 525 members of Congress, the math works to over $ 200,000,000 being dangled in front of our spineless politicians. Also the US gives Israel over $ 2.5 billion per year as per the Camp David Accords since 1980. No doubt some of that grant money is laundered in Israel and finds its way back to our politician's bank accounts. Most of the regional PACs are deceptively named in the interest of discretion. What can be done? These organizations represent a foreign country. Their reps should be collared under foreign agent laws not like lobbyists from a quasi 51st state.

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