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To: Machaon who wrote (8874)	11/17/2001 5:16:55 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Re: Well, you are no longer an enigma to me. Your final answer of why you are so opposed to Israel is merely about the spending of your tax dollars. Money! I should have known! HEY! COOL IT, man... Please, have mercy on Len!!! Don't send him one of your anthrax mails --by now, we've all understood that BLAMING ISRAEL MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH. Just ask Senator P. Leahy.... washington-report.org Excerpt: Senator Leahy Criticizes Both Aid To Israel and Arab Boycott Sen. Patrick Leahy is one of the few members of Congress who has warned Israelis that they must begin to think about the day when the United States government, rather than Israel's lobby, determines how many U.S. taxpayer dollars will go to Israel each year. In the past, however, his concern for the U.S. budget has been more than offset by his fear that Israel's lobby will find and fund rival aspirants to his Senate seat at election time. So, after warning about Israel's ever growing share of an ever-declining U.S. foreign aid budget, Leahy has cast his vote in favor of increasingly lopsided divisions of U.S. foreign aid. In 1993, the Vermont Democrat campaigned against the earmarks that protect Israel's $4.3 billion share of U.S. economic and military aid, and Egypt's $2.1 billion in foreign aid for keeping the peace with Israel. Leahy also helped insert into legislation authorizing Israel an additional $2 billion in annual U.S. Loan guarantees a provision that the U.S. withhold one dollar from the following year's loan guarantees to Israel for every dollar the Israeli government spends on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. That provision forced President Clinton to withhold $437 million from Israel's 1994 total of $2 billion in loan guarantees. However, Clinton later ordered that Israel receive extra U.S. government funding to offset the legally mandated deduction. The senator from Vermont "is a hard man to figure out," according to the Jewish Week of New York. The weekly newspaper pointed out that in an apparent attempt to ward off the Israel lobby's evil eye, Leahy "sounded like a gung-ho pro-Israel enthusiast" in a 1993 speech to the annual conference of the National Association of Arab Americans in which he called the continuing Arab boycott of Israel "a blow to peace" and a "failure of statesmanship and goodwill" and threatened that until they lift the boycott, Arab states "cannot expect attitudes in Congress to change significantly." Both Houses Call for End Of Arab Boycott of Israel In fact Senator Leahy doesn't seem hard to figure out at all. On some days, when he speaks from the heart, he sounds like a statesman. On other days, when he is motivated by fear of Israel's lobby, he sounds like a typical member of Congress. [snip] ____________________ Israel blackmails Mitzvah-pooper Leahy: November 17, 2001 Anthrax found in Leahy mail By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Federal investigators have found another anthrax-laced letter, this one addressed to Sen Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the FBI said yesterday. The contaminated letter bore handwriting similar to one sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and - like the Daschle letter - was postmarked from Trenton, N.J., law enforcement authorities said. "FBI and U.S. Postal Service investigators examining sequestered congressional mail have found another letter which appears to contain anthrax," the FBI said in a statement. "The as yet unopened letter, addressed to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, has an Oct. 9, 2001, Trenton, N.J., postmark and appears in every respect to be similar to the other anthrax-laced letters." [...] washtimes.com