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	Remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - Council on Foreign Relations
		On September the 11th, 2001, Americans saw that we are no longer protected by geography from the dangers of the world.
		Israel is a democracy and a friend, and has every right to defend itself from terror.
		The demonization of Israel, the most extreme anti-Zionist rhetoric can be a flimsy cover for anti-Semitism, and contribute to an atmosphere of fear in which synagogues are desecrated, people are slandered, folks are threatened.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7042 (2832 words)

	Israeli-US Strategy: Lebanon and Iran
		Israel retains its air and sea blockade, which are ‘acts of war’ according to International law, and upholds the ‘right’ to freely send commandos and assassination teams into Lebanon.
		Israel insists that the UN troops control the Syrian border before conforming to the terms of the agreement and withdrawing its own troops.
		Israel’s representatives in the US government saw the war against Iraq as a key staging ground for the attack on Iran– as part of a triumphal series of military conquests turning the Gulf into an Israeli-US condominium.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article14862.htm (3259 words)

	The AIPAC Story by Sam Smith
		AIPAC, after all, is a lobby powerful enough that at its most recent conference, one half of the Senate and one-third of the House showed up.
		AIPAC took pains to disguise its role, and there was quiet relief that the vote showed no solid Jewish bloc in favor of a war so relevant to Israel.
		AIPAC is wont to support whatever is good for Israel, and so long as Israel supports the war, so too do the thousands of the AIPAC lobbyists who convened in the American capital.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Israel/AIPAC_Story.html (3037 words)

	Guardian \| Colin Powell's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
		AIPAC came into being half a century ago to help the young Israel state meet the challenges of independence.
		It is a statement of the broad steps we believe Israel and the Palestinians must take to achieve President Bush's vision of hope and the dream that we all have for peace.
		Israel and the Palestinians must walk the road of peace together, if either is to arrive at the desired destination.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4637238-103552,00.html (2632 words)

	What's 'American' About the American Israel Public Affairs Committee? - by Michael Flynn
		Although the two AIPAC employees had not been charged (as of early May 2005) and the lobbying group was informed that it was not under investigation, the Franklin case has brought some unwanted attention to AIPAC, as well as to the larger issue of U.S.-Israeli relations.
		Extremely active in securing weapons deals for Israel, in lobbying for sanctions against the country's Middle East rivals, and in promoting the political agenda of whatever government happens to be in power in Israel, AIPAC has long played a highly public role in American policymaking in the Middle East.
		AIPAC helped lobby for passage of new U.S. sanctions against Syria, long a key goal of neoconservatives and Likud supporters both in the United States and Israel.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/flynn.php?articleid=5983 (1348 words)

	Remarks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's Annual Policy Conference
		Prime Minister Sharon has also recognized that Israel is gaining a legitimate partner for peace and he has made courageous decisions that could change the course of history.
		Israel's disengagement strategy presents an unprecedented and incredibly delicate opportunity for peace and we must all work together to capitalize on this precious moment.
		Israel must take no actions that prejudice a final settlement or jeopardize the true viability of the Palestinian state.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2005/46625.htm (2232 words)

	American Israel Public Affairs Committee - dKosopedia
		AIPAC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which bills itself as "America's Pro-Israel Lobby." Founded in 1954 by Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen, who had previously headed the American Zionist Committee.
		Though it started out small, with the original goal of securing foreign aid money for Israel from Congress, it now claims 65,000 members in the United States and is widely considered to be one of the most powerful lobby groups in the country.
		An oft-cited example of the power that AIPAC wields was its instrumental role in the 1984 defeat of the then-Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois, after Percy supported the Reagan administration's plan to sell AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee (286 words)

	AIPAC's Overt and Covert Ops [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] 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.
		AIPAC is not all that rich or powerful, but politics in the U.S. is often evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
		But given that Israel is a nuclear power with a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction; given that Egypt and Jordan have long-lived peace treaties with Israel; and given that Syria and Lebanon are small, weak powers, there is not in fact any serious military threat to Israel in its immediate neighborhood.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Israel/AIPAC's_Overt_Covert_Ops.html (3650 words)

	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 "to ensure that the U.S.-Israel relationship is strong so that both countries can work together" to meet the challenges of "stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, fighting terrorism and achieving peace".
		AIPAC is a diverse, broad-based organization which seeks to synthesize the views of its backers with objective information to pursue the advocacy of policies that benefit both the United States and Israel.
		Cockburn and McKinney claim that AIPAC was instrumental in helping to defeat Congressional candidates that AIPAC deemed unfriendly to Israel, former Representative McKinney of Georgia (after her first term as a Representative) and former Representative Earl F. Hilliard of Alabama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee (2249 words)

	President Clinton to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference (April 28, 1996)
		When the Prime Minister said that Israel was now spending as much money on education as defense, I thought of seeing if I could get him to stay another week and just testify before a few committees.
		It was at this conference last year that Israel's then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, from day one Israel found itself in a unique alliance with the United States, resting on twin pillars of shared values and strategic partnership.
		I know that in Israel and Lebanon, throughout the Middle East and throughout the world, it would be so easy after yet another round of violence and death to give up, to think that the very best we could expect is a future of separate armed camps.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/Clinton_Israel20.html (2823 words)

	AIPAC's Hold
		AIPAC's executive director spent twenty-seven minutes reading the "roll call" of dignitaries present at the gala dinner, which included a majority of the Senate and a quarter of the House, along with dozens of Administration officials.
		AIPAC is the leading player in what is sometimes referred to as "The Israel Lobby"--a coalition that includes major Jewish groups, neoconservative intellectuals and Christian Zionists.
		AIPAC continues to enjoy deep bipartisan backing inside Congress even after two top AIPAC officials were indicted a year ago for allegedly accepting and passing on confidential national security secrets from a Defense Department analyst.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060814/aipacs_hold (1294 words)

	The New Yorker : fact : content
		Pollard’s actions were an embarrassment for American Jews, who fear the accusation of “dual loyalty”—the idea that they split their allegiance between the United States and Israel.
		For Israel, the case was a moral and political disaster.
		An aipac spokesman, Patrick Dorton, said of the firing, “Rosen and Weissman were dismissed because they engaged in conduct that was not part of their jobs, and because this conduct did not comport with the standards that aipac expects and requires of its employees.”
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/050704fa_fact (4904 words)

	President Speaks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
		Remarks by the President to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
		By defending the freedom and prosperity and security of Israel, you're also serving the cause of America.
		(Applause.) Israel is a democracy and a friend, and has every right to defend itself from terror.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2004/05/20040518-1.html (2787 words)

	Clinton to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference
		He could well have been content simply to be a member of the heroic generation that defended Israel at its birth and then to have risen to lead the Israeli military in preserving its strength against all odds.
		All over the world, in countries that are desperately poor, people are trying to learn how to support themselves and to sustain their environment so that they can have orderly societies and be part of peaceful cooperation and not be consumed by the radical currents sweeping across the world.
		Thanks in large measure to the tireless efforts of Secretary Christopher, Israel and Syria are engaged in serious, substantive negotiations on the terms of a treaty which can both secure another of Israel's borders and put an end to the entire conflict.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/Clinton_Israel11.html (3996 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| American Israel Public Affairs Committee
		AIPAC was in the thick of things during the lead up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
		According to press reports, AIPAC membership jumped nearly 50%, to some 70,000, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, in part through ties the group had made with the Christian Right, which reflected a key strategy promoted by many neoconservatives and foreign policy hardliners during the 1990s.
		The AIPAC website explains: “Since 1990 the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization have cooperated to develop missile defense technology to counter the threat of long-range missiles, which are being developed by countries such as North Korea and Iran.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1432 (2371 words)

	CBS News \| FBI Probes Pentagon Spy Case \| August 27, 2004 22:15:19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The government notified AIPAC today that it wants information about the two employees and their contacts with a person at the Pentagon.
		AIPAC told CBS News it is cooperating with the government and has hired outside counsel.
		The FBI is conducting an espionage probe and says it has "solid" evidence a Pentagon analyst supplied Israel with secret U.S. policy deliberations on Iran, Lesley Stahl reports.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/08/27/eveningnews/main639143.shtml (456 words)

	Larry Franklin Case: AIPAC Leaders Snared
		As the result of the blowback from the Pollard affair, according to the U.S. intelligence sources, Israel shifted its espionage operations targetted at the United States to think-tanks and lobbying organizations like AIPAC, which have ongoing "legitimate" contacts with American government officials.
		What the Israelis and the AIPAC spooks did not anticipate was that their operations would be closely scrutinized by the FBI and other U.S. agencies, for at least the past six years, revealing numerous instances where the "legitimate" contacts crossed over into hard espionage.
		According to sources close to the Franklin probe, AIPAC may be forced, as a result of the Franklin case, to register as a foreign agent organization, thus losing its tax-exempt status and forcing much closer accounting of its finances and activities.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2005/3232aipac_indict.html (983 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.
		AIPAC espionage case points to larger spy scandal, Antiwar.com, February 3, 2006.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=AIPAC (1074 words)

	National Capital Insiders Vote AIPAC, Israel's American Lobby, Second Most Powerful Interest Group in Washington
		In any case, when Americans point out to Middle Eastern critics that if the U.S. government wants arms sold to renegade nations, there are plenty of U.S. manufacturers who would be happy to do the job, the discussion comes back to the first question.
		This puts AIPAC in the unique position of having several million dollars to spend on helping or hurting candidates in each two-year election cycle, and also of being able to mobilize a large percentage of America's 5.5 million Jews into a one-issue voting bloc in support of candidates deemed friendly to Israel.
		Summarized, the suit charges that although AIPAC is functioning as a "political committee" raising and spending funds to get members of Congress elected or defeated, it is not complying with the laws that require such organizations to disclose to the Federal Election Commission where they get their funds, and how they spend them.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0198/9801065.htm (1183 words)

	Colin Powell's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Colin Powell's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
		Letters: Israel boycott may be the way to peace
		Colin Powell's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,926276,00.html (2714 words)

	Larry Franklin Case--Pentagon analyst arrested 4 MAY 2005; Passed information to AIPAC/Israel
		AIPAC is a membership organization and currently boasts 65,000 members across all 50 of the American states.
		AIPAC, Israel’s principal U.S. lobby, claims that the lobby “itself” is not under investigation.
		Two lobbyists implicated in the AIPAC affair submitted a request Monday in which they asked Israeli diplomats in Washington to testify in their hearings.
	cicentre.com /Documents/DOC_Larry_Franklin_Case_AFTER_arrest.htm (6319 words)

	Remarks by Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, at American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Despite the current fighting, the President still envisions Israel and the Palestinians achieving a peace by mutual consent.
		The outlines of a just settlement are clear: two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side, in peace and security".
		But at the same time, we see this upsurge in terrorism directed against Israel and brazen public support for anti-Israel terrorism, especially suicide bombings, even from seasoned, sophisticated officials.
	www.defenselink.mil /speeches/2002/s20020421-Feith.html (2607 words)

	AIPAC Says U.S.-Israel Ties Are Under Attack (washingtonpost.com)
		In a lengthy letter to supporters and allies, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee charged yesterday that the "very essence" of relations between the United States and Israel is under assault as a result of reports that the FBI is investigating whether AIPAC officials passed classified information to Israel.
		The AIPAC letter comes amid charges from some American Jews that enemies of Israel and of AIPAC are capitalizing on the controversy created by reports of the probe.
		In the letter, AIPAC President Bernice Manocherian and Executive Director Howard Kohr said the group will not "abide any suggestion that American citizens should be perceived as being involved in illegal activities simply for seeking to participate in the decisions of their elected leaders or officials who work for them."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A3677-2004Sep7.html (693 words)

	The Role of the Press in the Anti-Terrorism Campaign The Propaganda War: Is America Effectively Telling Its Side of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Marvin Kalb, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was the first Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
		Among the events that he witnessed and that marked his career were the Libyan revolution of 1969, the beginnings of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975-76, the release of the U.S. hostages in Iran at Algiers Airport in 1981, and negotiation of the still-born Lebanese-Israeli agreement of May 17, 1983.
		He served as Senator Frank Church's legislative assistant for foreign affairs from 1970 to 1974, head of the Senate Budget Committee's national security staff from 1975 to 1978, advisor to Senator Edmund Muskie on nuclear weapons policy and the SALT treaty, and defense and foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1979-1980.
	www.brook.edu /gs/research/projects/press/011602.htm (1509 words)

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