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	American Israel Public Affairs Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		AIPAC's stated purpose is to lobby the Congress of the United States on issues and legislation that are in the best interests of Israel and the United States.
		AIPAC claims its strengths lie in its national membership base and great research capacity to understand both Israel's interest and the interests of other countries affecting US-Israel relationship around the world.
		In 1992, AIPAC president David Steiner had to resign when he was tape recorded boasting about his political influence, saying he had "cut a deal" with the Bush administration to give more aid to Israel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AIPAC (1913 words)

	Tzedakah Reports: American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC (activities) Sh'vat 5760/January 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC's major 1999 lobbying efforts included, in addition to the annual $3 billion aid package for Israel, the Wye River Aid Package which was enacted and the Iran Non-proliferation Act which was passed by the House of Representatives.
		AIPAC representatives met with more than 600 congressional candidates during the last campaign season, including all those who were elected.
		AIPAC maintains a nationwide network of "key contacts" in all 50 states advocates who have established relationships with members of congress and can gain access to a member in a matter of hours.
	www.just-tzedakah.org /reports/AmericanIsraelPublicAffairs/activities.html (338 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 5. Deal Breakers. Michael Massing. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC and the Presidents Conference work together closely; all of the members of the conference, in fact, sit on AIPAC's executive committee (which is distinct from its board of directors).
		But, according to former AIPAC officials, the Gang of Four was not enthusiastic, and, in contrast to the bullish statements AIPAC had issued on behalf of the Likud government, its board remained largely silent on Rabin's peace initiative.
		AIPAC's main vehicle was a "talking points" memo sent to its members in the field urging them to meet with their congressional representatives and press them to keep the administration off Israel's back.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/5/massing-m.html (4387 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Pro-Israel Lobby Has Strong Voice
		For AIPAC, the allegations are potentially devastating to its credibility and large influence in Washington, and its officials have vigorously denied any wrongdoing.
		When the existence of the investigation of AIPAC became public more than a week ago, Pentagon officials said the inquiry was focused on one mid-level Pentagon analyst -- Lawrence A. Franklin -- and whether he gave a draft presidential directive on Iran to AIPAC.
		Much of AIPAC's influence lies in the extensive civic participation of its supporters, the high-profile role of board members in making and raising campaign contributions, the strong ties of AIPAC to the government of Israel, and the strategic importance of Israel to U.S. interests.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A62438-2004Sep4?language=printer (1184 words)

	Too Big to Fight
		This despite the fact that AIPAC continues to inject millions of dollars into both presidential and congressional races with hard and soft money whose sources repeatedly have been questioned but never have been properly disclosed.
		Even while denying that it is a lobby, AIPAC proved otherwise last year by boasting that it alone had met with every new member of Congress.
		This September, AIPAC deputy political affairs director Fran Katz became finance director of the DNC, contributing to the impression that the foreign lobby and the incumbent party have become one and the same.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/1297/9712042.html (765 words)

	The Forward Newspaper Online: Questions Raised Over Aipac's Tactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aipac's defenders, both in congressional and Jewish communal circles, insist that no evidence has emerged suggesting that Aipac either violated American espionage laws or even crossed the line requiring it to register as a representative of a foreign agent.
		Aipac should limit its efforts to Capitol Hill, Rabin and his aides argued, and stay out of contacts between the executive branches of both countries.
		Rabin suggested that Aipac lobby Congress for a tough policy toward Iran and Aipac pushed for the legislation that was eventually passed in 1996 as the Iran Libya Sanctions Act.
	www.forward.com /main/printer-friendly.php?ref=nir20040901935 (760 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Two former AIPAC officials face indictment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC leaders have taken a series of steps to cut themselves off from the two former officials suspected in the case.
		AIPAC's decision to cooperate with the investigators' demands and to fire the two officials was made after it became evident that the FBI had tape-recordings showing that Franklin explicitly said that the material was secret.
		AIPAC's assessment was that it would be difficult for the organization to continue working on Capitol Hill, and with the administration, while two of its senior officials are facing such charges.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/5711.htm (812 words)

	Arianna Online Forums - AIPAC's Tax-Exempt Status Questioned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC engages in a variety of pro-Israel activities such as lobbying in Congress, but works also with the President and the Executive Branch.
		AIPAC appears before Congressional committees considering legislation affecting Israel; publishes and distributes a wide variety of informational literature; mobilizes local pro-Israel individuals and groups on key issues; runs a leadership development program for activists on college campuses; and much more.
		Since AIPAC advocates specific legislation, it is registered with Congress under domestic lobbying laws and is, in fact, the first American organization that was officially registered to lobby Congress directly on all legislation affecting Israel.
	www.ariannaonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=10977 (438 words)

	Supreme Court-AIPAC 2
		Helms does not admit AIPAC's role in his drastic change of attitude, which includes supporting congressional maneuvers to provide Israel its lion's share of U.S. aid without members having to participate in an "up or down" (yes or no) vote on the issue.
		The FEC complied by issuing a finding that AIPAC had "likely crossed the $1,000 threshold" defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 as the maximum amount an organization or individual can donate to each candidate in each election without becoming a "political committee" subject to financial disclosure laws.
		In seeking to evade those laws, AIPAC attorneys have charged that compliance will impose an intolerable burden on the 150- employee organization that claims 50,000 members and whose budget is said to be between $10 million and $16 million.
	www.cafearabica.com /politics/politics12/polasupcourt9x2.html (399 words)

	Washington Watch by James Zogby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This myth is one that AIPAC has deliberately cultivated, much to its advantage and, as I have noted, Arab Americans their supporters have all too often mistakenly encouraged those efforts.
		While AIPAC claims that it gathers such data legally and only for its own use, in fact it is what it do with this information that makes it so potent a force in their arsenal and such an integral part of their strategy.
		AIPAC's so-called "research" department has become a major source of information on members of Congress and on "enemies of Israel." It publishes a confidential monthly report which it sends to Jewish groups and leaders and wealthy donors and a number of friendly writers.
	www.aaiusa.org /wwatch_archives/081693.htm (2820 words)

	Controversy's no stranger to AIPAC, Washington's Jewish juggernaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Founded half a century ago, AIPAC claims 65,000 members -- in all 50 states -- and says its central mission is to support U.S. interests in the Middle East and to advocate for a strong relationship with Israel.
		AIPAC was reeling from allegations that it had violated its nonpartisan mandate in that November's congressional elections and had mapped out a campaign smear the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
		AIPAC was at the time in a bitter campaign against a proposed Reagan administration arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/28/national1654EDT0609.DTL (685 words)

	Supreme Court-AIPAC
		AIPAC, which openly lobbies for "any democratically elected government of Israel," is widely acknowledged to be the most effective lobby in America for effetive domestic or foreign special interests.
		That is exactly how AIPAC is referred to by members of Congress, one of whom recently remarked to a foreign visitor that AIPAC visits to his office are "the most unpleasant moments" of his congressional schedule.
		AIPAC channels millions of dollars in campaign contributions to candidates for federal office through a network of political action committees established through-out the United States by members of AIPAC national board of directors.
	www.cafearabica.com /politics/politics12/polasupcourt9x1.html (411 words)

	Encyclopedia: AIPAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To his left is AIPAC's executive director Howard Kohr and at right is AIPAC president Bernice Monacherian.
		Founded in 1953 by Si Kenen, AIPAC's original name was the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.
		In a dangerous new century, your work is more vital than ever." George W. Bush addressing AIPAC members in Washington, May 18, 2004.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/AIPAC (1537 words)

	AIPAC's Overt and Covert Ops - by Juan Cole
		In the 1980s, AIPAC set up the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as a pro-Israeli alternative to the Brookings Institution, which it perceived to be insufficiently supportive of Israel.
		WINEP, being a wing of AIPAC, is enormously influential in Washington.
		AIPAC is not all that rich or powerful, but politics in the U.S. is often evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
	www.antiwar.com /cole?articleid=3467 (3752 words)

	The Israeli and Arab Lobbies
		AIPAC was not the first domestic lobby to concern itself with foreign affairs, but it is regarded as the most powerful.
		AIPAC has the luxury of being able to call its allies in Congress to pass along information, and then leaves much of the work of writing bills and gathering cosponsors to the legislative staffs.
		The conference is the main contact between the Jewish community and the executive branch, while AIPAC tends to be the conduit with the legislative branch.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/lobby.html (4372 words)

	Profile: AIPAC Under Scrutiny For It's Controversial Goals and Methods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC is known as one of the toughest, most effective lobbying organizations in Washington.
		AIPAC spokesman Josh Block describes the organization as strictly an educational group and lobby that works with Congress and foreign policy establishments to strengthen the US-Israeli relationship and advance American interests in the Middle East.
		O'HARA: A senior congressional aide who asked not to be identified says that on Capital Hill, AIPAC has a reputation for bullying, intimidation and promoting policies that don't necessarily advance the interests of the United States or, in the view of some, the interests of Israel.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2004/sep/040910.ohara.html (1498 words)

	Hillel President Supports AIPAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC rigorously denies this accusation stating: 'Any allegation of criminal conduct by AIPAC or our employees is false and baseless.
		AIPAC has succeeded in strengthening the strategic alliance of these two great, democratic nations, decade after decade, through times of peace and turbulence.
		AIPAC's achievements on the global stage are echoed in its contributions on individual campuses.
	www.hillel.org /hillel/newhille.nsf/0/4699E1124C4D734C85256F020051A811?OpenDocument (244 words)

	AIPAC: Arab Israel Palestine Affairs Committee (Emanuel A. Winston) June, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Israel's official lobby in Washington, has come a long way since I served on the Executive Board in the days of Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen and Morrie Amitay.
		Their molding of AIPAC's policies too often reflected the political position of the American Administration and State Department which was usually not consistent with what was best for Israel.
		AIPAC members I have spoken with were astonished and angry.
	www.freeman.org /m_online/jun99/winston1.htm (530 words)

	Spy-scandal lobby blitz=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AIPAC had deployed bipartisan statements in a successful campaign to quell the potentially disastrous flow of negative articles in the first cycle of an espionage scandal that FBI investigators say is expanding.
		AIPAC, which does not give political donations but spends roughly $1 million a year on lobbying, has received supportive statements from nearly every key congressional leader.
		AIPAC and its members have tirelessly led that effort, and America is better and stronger for it.
	www.thehill.com /news/090804/spy.aspx (907 words)

	The Israel Lobby
		AIPAC is widely regarded as the most powerful foreign-policy lobby in Washington.
		AIPAC's power makes potential sources reluctant to discuss the organization on the record, and employees who leave it usually sign pledges of silence.
		AIPAC officials themselves rarely give interviews, and the organization even resists divulging its board of directors.
	www.webcom.com /hrin/magazine/israellobby.html (944 words)

	Behind the AIPAC Probe, Neocons Seen Battling Rivals (washingtonpost.com)
		While the Post quoted sources as saying they were "puzzled" and "baffled" about the motivation of the AIPAC probe, many foreign observers show no such doubt.
		The AIPAC scandal "stems from bureaucratic competition between neoconservatives and their opponents within the administration," according to columnist Avinoam Bar Yosef of the
		The AIPAC investigation, she says, is a challenge to their ambitions.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A2149-2004Sep7.html (628 words)

	AIPAC
		AIPAC, the country’s most powerful pro-Israel political group, does not give campaign contributions but does spend more than $1 million annually on lobbying.
		But the FEC also ruled that this was not AIPAC's "major purpose," he said, meaning that the pro-Israel lobby did not have to register as a political action committee.
		AIPAC's future hinges in part on whether the FEC rules that it is a membership organization (which it has done).
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/General/general_aipac.htm (910 words)

	Jeffrey Blankfort: AIPAC’s Lobbying
		Jeffrey Blankfort: Very briefly, AIPAC was the brainchild of "Si" Kenan back in the early 1950s who ran it as a one man office before it actually became AIPAC.
		AIPAC members go in and out of the administration, like Monsanto go in and out of the regulatory authorities in the government.
		AIPAC will not be surprised by any statement by George Bush unless he makes a foolish malaprop.
	student.cs.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0012776.html (2031 words)

	War and Piece:
		Federal investigators have reportedly been investigating AIPAC for two years, and the case is said to focus around a former Pentagon official suspected of passing a classified draft policy statement on Iran to AIPAC, which allegedly then passed it on to Israel.
		AIPAC learned in August that the FBI was investigating two AIPAC employees when the authorities visited the AIPAC offices and requested and obtained computer files related to these two employees.
		Despite the false and baseless allegations that have been reported, AIPAC will not be distracted from our central mission of supporting America's interests in the Middle East and advocating for a strong relationship with Israel.
	www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/001444.html (415 words)

	American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
		AIPAC's mission is to advance the U.S.-Israel relationship through effective political action.
		AIPAC's Political Leadership Development Program and Schusterman Advocacy Institute (SAI) educates and trains young leaders in pro-Israel political advocacy, and encourages them to become politically active.
		Students involved with AIPAC bring their Members of Congress to campus, promote voter registration, work on political campaigns, build relationships with other student leaders, and learn how to effectively advocate for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.
	www.israeloncampuscoalition.org /aboutus/members/aipac.htm (250 words)

	American Israel Public Affairs Committee - SourceWatch
		In August 2003, a AIPAC foreign policy associate in Jerusalem told CNSNews.com that in that month alone approximately 10% of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives had visited Israel on their tours.
		AIPAC is associated with the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), which sponsors fact-finding trips for many members of Congress.
		This despite AIPAC "talking point" that aid be linked to dismantling of Hamas (Bush did not even mention the dismantling issue).
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=AIPAC (857 words)

	Should AIPAC Register as an Agent of a Foreign Government?
		A tax-exempt organization that lobbies Congress on behalf of Israel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (also known as AIPAC), has been under investigation by the FBI for allegedly receiving classified information from a Pentagon official and using this information on behalf of the government of Israel.
		The poll found 61% "strongly or somewhat agree" that AIPAC should be asked to register as a foreign agent and lose its tax exempt status, while only 12% strongly or somewhat disagree that it should.
		They strongly endorse the position that we have long held, that AIPAC should register as an agent of a foreign government and lose its tax-exempt status.
	www.cnionline.org /learn/polls/aipac (391 words)

	Worldandnation: Alliance breeds influence for Israel
		Because it is not a political action committee, AIPAC does not contribute to campaigns.
		AIPAC also "risks fueling claims of those who would accuse the Jewish community" of working with the neocons to pursue a regime change in Iran, Nir wrote in Forward.
		Despite the criticisms, AIPAC enjoys strong backing from many American Jews, and there is little evidence Congress is wavering from its pro-Israel stance.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/10/17/Worldandnation/Alliance_breeds_influ.shtml (2373 words)

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