spitt
04.06.08, 20:15
V-ta kolumna w Stanach ,...
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AIPAC and Iraq
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It has become relatively fashionable for some members of the Israeli
lobby to deny any involvement in the build-up towards the war on
Iraq. But few remember what AIPAC executive director Howard Kohr
told the New York Sun in January 2003: "Quietly lobbying Congress to
approve the use of force in Iraq was one of AIPAC's successes over
the past year."
And in a New Yorker profile of Steven Rosen, AIPAC's policy director
during the run-up to the war on Iraqi, it was stated that "AIPAC
lobbied Congress in favor of the Iraqi war".
Compare it with a 2007 Gallup study based on 13 different polls,
according to which 77% of American Jews were opposed to the Iraq
war, compared to 52% of Americans.
Walt and Mearsheimer contend "the war was due in large part to the
lobby's influence, and especially its neo-con wing. The lobby is not
always representative of the larger community for which it often
claims to speak." ,...
atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF03Ak01.html
