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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (560944)	4/6/2004 10:42:56 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"While there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution, at least not yet, that demands of our members of Congress that they swear their fidelity to Israel, there is considerable evidence that such a requirement does, in fact, exist. San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Whip, and therefore the party¡¦s most powerful member in the lower house, set what was, perhaps, a new standard for such subservience when she pledged her ¡§unshakable¡¨ bond to Israel at least a dozen times in a speech in Washington last April to 5,000 members of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at the organization¡¦s annual convention. AIPAC is Israel¡¦s officially registered lobby with headquarters in the nation¡¦s capital and branch offices throughout the country. To give the reader a good idea of how deeply Israel has penetrated our political system, AIPAC representatives, uniquely, do not have to register as agents of a foreign government. If they did, organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), for example, would also be required to register because much of their work is done in behalf of Israel. The AJC, not as well known outside of the Jewish community, quietly lobbies foreign governments in behalf of Israel. Moreover, it is not just organizations that are doing this. According to the Jerusalem Post, San Francisco¡¦s other representative in Congress, Tom Lantos, a Hungarian-born Jew, has represented Israel in countries where it has no diplomatic relations, such as Syria and, most recently, Pakistan and Libya. Whether as an organization or as an individual, this is an activity that normally requires those engaging in it to register as foreign agents. Half of the Senate attended that AIPAC meeting last year as did a third of the House. Two of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) who were reportedly among the guests were Artur Davis and Denise Majette, both African-Americans, who, with the support of AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League and pro-Israel Jewish donors from across the country, defeated veteran civil rights activist Earl Hilliard and his younger colleague, Cynthia McKinney, in the 2002 Democratic Party primaries in Alabama and Georgia, respectively.