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To: tejek who wrote (285797)	4/27/2006 4:34:05 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572510

"Abramoff may be Jewish.....I don't have a clue if he is or isn't..." He is.

To: tejek who wrote (285797)	4/27/2006 5:51:31 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572510

>And you think Abramoff is the lobby for the Jewish Defense League? Probably not. >Abramoff may be Jewish.....I don't have a clue if he is or isn't......... Yup, Orthodox. >but I am pretty certain he wasn't working closely with important American leaders in the Jewish community. Not really... if he were, his Kosher deli in DC probably wouldn't have gone under! >And I am 99% sure that Bush's connection to him wasn't through Judaism. Definitely not. All about money. -Z

To: tejek who wrote (285797)	4/28/2006 4:18:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572510

Re: And you think Abramoff is the lobby for the Jewish Defense League? Seriously Gus, you are shooting in the dark. Fiat lux! 26 Avril, 2005 A Scandal of Irony Abramoff Used DeLay to Fund Anti-Intifada Militia By JOSHUA FRANK Albany, New York "These elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge ... an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh." Edith Wharton It shouldn't come as much of a shock that Jack Abramoff, the infamous DC super-lobbyist who has been accused of ripping off millions from his Native American clients, is a rabid Zionist. Abramoff, in the late 1990s, set up a pro-Israel charity front called the Capital Athletic Foundation. Sounds jovial enough. "The pitch ... was hard to resist," Michael Isikoff recently reported for Newsweek, "a good way to get access on Capitol Hill, he told his clients ... was to contribute to [his] worthy charity ... [which] was supposed to provide sports programs and teach 'leadership skills' to city youth. Donating to it also had a side benefit, Abramoff told his clients: it was a favored cause of Rep. Tom DeLay." So Abramoff dangled a carrot in front of his clients, advising them to donate to his philanthropic venture. Why not, it was for a good cause. Plus, he boasted, it would buy them access to Rep. Tom DeLay. It may indeed have bought them access, but what Abramoff's customers didn't realize was that a large portion of their money would never be spent on gearing up inner city kids to shoot some b-ball -- rather, their dollars were shipped overseas to help arm Israeli settlers in the occupied territories. More than $140,000 of the foundation's funds, reports Newsweek, was used to purchase sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, camouflage suits, thermal imagers and other material which Abramoff's foundation called "security" equipment. Newsweek also reports "these payments are part of a larger investigation to determine if Abramoff defrauded his Indian tribe clients." Not surprisingly Abramoff's ex-clients are fuming. "This is almost like outer-limits bizarre," Henry Buffalo, a lawyer for the Saginaw Chippewa Indians who contributed $25,000 to the Capital Athletic Foundation told Newsweek. "The tribe would never have given money for this." Abramoff's clients had been duped. Rep. Delay, who has deservingly taken his share of heat for his association with Abramoff, claims to know nothing of the Capital Athletic Foundation's financial exploits. Still, it is unlikely Abramoff lied when he told his clients that his foundation was a "favored cause" of Thomas DeLay -- for DeLay, like Abramoff, is also a pro-Israel zealot. During a key-note speech at a fundamentalist Christian rally called "Stand for Israel," in early April of 2003, DeLay preached to the audience, "The United States stands for justice and that means we stand for Israel ... negotiating with these men (the PLO) with tongues like swords is folly, and any agreement arrived at through such empty negotiations would amount to a covenant with death ... Israel's fight is our fight: against terror, and for humanity. The United States, therefore, cannot serve as a disinterested broker between ally and its terrorist enemy." It is hard to stomach the irony. If there is any group in the US that can empathize with the occupation of the Palestinian people -- it's the Native Americans. But here Abramoff's clients were, unknowingly donating tens of thousands of dollars so that Israeli settlers in the West Bank could continue to occupy defenseless Palestinians. You can bet that DeLay and Abramoff snickered all the way to the (West) bank. In a just world there would be two sets of tight handcuffs awaiting these two swindling fools. Joshua Frank is the author of the forthcoming book, Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush, to be published by Common Courage Press. You can pre-order a copy at discounted rate at www.BrickBurner.org. Josh can be reached at: Joshua@BrickBurner.org. counterpunch.org

To: tejek who wrote (285797)	4/28/2006 4:21:54 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1572510

Follow-up to my previous post: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Jack Abramoff and Israel The American Conservative has some comments about Jack Abramoff and his connections to Israel. One of the more intriguing aspects of the federal investigation into the activities of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff is his Israeli connections. His large $2.2 million bail is reported to be due to fears that he would flee to Israel, as some of his business associates have already done, to avoid prosecution. Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew and ardent Zionist, set up a charity called Capital Athletic Foundation, which illegally provided $140,000 worth of weapons and security equipment to hard-line Israeli settlers. Abramoff also allegedly convinced Congressman Robert Ney, House Administrative Committee chairman, to award a contract worth $3 million to a start-up Israeli telecommunications firm called Foxcom Wireless. The contract was for the installation of antennas in House of Representatives buildings to improve cell-phone reception. Not surprisingly, such equipment can be designed to have what is known as a "back door" to enable a third party, in this case Mossad, to listen in. That an Israeli firm should be given such a contract through a selection process that was described as "deeply flawed and unfair" is explicable, particularly as there were American suppliers of the same equipment, and it suggest that the private conversations of some of our Congressmen might not be so private after all. In a previous scandal in 2001, FBI investigators strongly suspected that two Israeli companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, which had been allowed to obtain U.S. government telecommunications contracts, were able to use back-door technology to compromise the security of DEA, Pentagon, and White House phones. gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com