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I May Be Wrong About AIPAC
by M.J. Rosenberg | Sep 11, 2013 | Foreign Policy…tion of weakness leads to more weakness. AIPAC looks feckless, tired and inept, with even the Israelis saying they overplayed their hand. And what does AIPAC itself think? Word is that they know they look bad and also know that if last-minute diplomac…
An Inside Look at How AIPAC Beats War Drum on Capitol Hill
by M.J. Rosenberg | Sep 4, 2013 | Foreign Policy…art to this on the antiwar side. No anti-AIPAC to speak of. AIPAC owns this issue. It gets what it wants … Yeah, it’s scary.” The reason Israel (and its lobby) are going all out to push the United States to attack Syria is as a precedent for a much la…
Congress Will Likely Approve Strikes on Syria
by M.J. Rosenberg | Sep 2, 2013 | Foreign Policy…ow at Media Matters For America. Previously, he spent 15 years as a Senate and House aide. Early in his career he was editor of AIPAC’s newsletter Near East Report. From 1998-2009, he was director of policy at Israel Policy Forum. Follow him @MJayRose…
Celebrated New Peace Talks Are Headed Nowhere Fast
by M.J. Rosenberg | Jul 25, 2013 | Foreign Policy…with AIPAC (he and I worked together at AIPAC in the 1980s) and with the think-tank it created, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is the fact that the U.S. has unambiguously taken Israel’s side for decades. The Palestinians understand th…
Obama Will Do (Almost) Anything for Israel
by M.J. Rosenberg | Jun 4, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Politics…e is no more free of the need to placate AIPAC-affiliated donors today than he was before his re-election. His political strategists are always there to remind him just how much he needs those donors. But now, knowing that he will not give Netanyahu t…