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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (2707)	10/24/2003 10:04:52 AM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

While the US Corporate Media Ban Reports about How the Special Interest Group Manipulates Top US Politicians, the Israel's Major Media Often Carry those Reports (one may sense the pride between the lines, too). Top US Government officials and high-profile President Bush can only remain silent on the reports: ...>>About 100 congressmen visited Israel during the summer as guests of pro-Israel lobbies, becoming loyal ambassadors for the fence. Formost, its precise location - east or west of Ariel - is at most a matter of nuance, just as long as the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC is pleased. Bush surely remembers how Sharon, his pals in the Israeli right and their American allies drove his father crazy when he tried, in 1992, to conduct a balanced policy in the Israeli-Arab conflict. In case he forgot, Howard Dean, running for the Democratic party presidential nomination, can tell him what happens to a candidate who dares challenge the Israeli government. Dean is learning the hard way that if you are not careful, the MiddleEast conflict can get any American politician into trouble with the Jewish organizations, among the most powerful of the lobbies in the U.S. A few days after Dean announced that if elected he would make sure to conduct an even-handed policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, his desk was covered with letters of protest from Jewish activists. Democratic congressmen hurried to call him to order and his competition in the race for the party nomination locked their lips. Prior to that, Dean thanked American friends of Peace Now for their offer to accompany him on a visit to Israel, but he preferred to be photographed in Israel in the company of his chaperons from AIPAC, much greater loyalists of the Grater Land of Israel. An American Jewish peace activist, here this week for Shimon Peres' birthday celebrations, explained why he thinks the U.S. is one of the only friends of Israel that did not send an official representative to the party: "Someone in the White House may have thought that with an election year coming up, it would be best to keep a safe distance from Arafat's partner in the Nobel peace prize."<< ... haaretz.com