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To: ChinuSFO who started this subject	10/15/2002 2:53:35 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 3959

Flashback Inspecting Nuclear Israel: Part One by Bob Feldman counterpunch.org <<< ... Like the transnational oil companies and the government of Kuwait Inc., Nuclear Israel seems to have a special influence in U.S. political life. One reason for Nuclear Israel's special influence is because its political allies in the United States are willing to spend a lot of money to fund the political campaigns of influential members of the U.S. Congress. According to the 1990 book, STEALTH PACS: HOW ISRAEL'S AMERICAN LOBBY SEEKS TO CONTROL U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY by Richard Curtis, "the ability to spend more on elections than any other special interest in the United States while remaining virtually invisible to the public, and to evade with impunity the letter and the spirit of the law limiting contributions to congressional candidates, are only two of the `special' qualities of pro-Israel PACS [political action committees]." Seventy-eight pro-Nuclear Israel PACS donated more than $5.7 million to 477 candidates for the U.S. Congress, for instance, during the 1988 U.S. election campaign ... >>>

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