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Israel Is a Partisan Issue
by Lou Dubose | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog…me Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed AIPAC this morning. Not so. More and more, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has come to embrace the muscular, neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration. On issues like Pres…
Going Nuclear: AIPAC Targets Obama’s Negotiations with Tehran
by Lou Dubose | Mar 1, 2015 | Politics…ear. As in 2014, Israel’s government and AIPAC are engaged in a campaign to pass the bill, which would almost certainly compel Iran to abandon the P5+1 negotiations. Until Obama phoned him on January 12 to protest, Netanyahu was personally calling mem…
Checkmated by Obama
by M.J. Rosenberg | Apr 1, 2014 | Foreign Policy…the Iranians and Russians, but no one at AIPAC views him as weak on AIPAC. The final two indications that AIPAC knows that it is losing came when it sent its members up to Capitol Hill to ask legislators to sign a letter supporting Benjamin Netanyahu’…
On Iran, J Street Had Obama’s Back
by Lou Dubose | Mar 1, 2014 | Politics…tion.) While it’s far too early to write AIPAC’s obituary, in early February the Times’ Mark Lander described the Iran sanctions fight as the end of AIPAC’s “impressive record of legislative victories in its quest for American support for Israel.” J S…
When Obama Beat the Lobby
by M.J. Rosenberg | Feb 7, 2014 | Foreign Policy…brand, Chris Coons and Joe Manchin), and AIPAC’s hopes to override Obama’s veto ended with a whimper, AIPAC’s whimper. On Feb. 2, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced, in a letter to Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) that she opposed the AIPAC bil…