Jews are not immune. Not even Jews who are president of the World Jewish Congress. Edgar Bronfman Sr., who held that lofty title in 2003, was accused of “perfidy” when he wrote a letter to President Bush, urging the president to pressure Israel to curb construction of its controversial “security fence.”
An incredible accusation against a highly prominent (and wealthy) Jew. Perfidy, defined as ‘an act of deliberate betrayal, treachery, treason.’
Tell me the Jewish Lobby doesn’t have a long reach. But we do not suffer demagoguery well or for long in this country.
Three hundred million of we rag-tag Americans (a mere five and a half million of us Jews) have given the State of Israel well over $140 billion in direct aid. That doesn’t even begin to match the private contributions from Americans.
In the way of thanks for raking in a disproportionate 20% of all U.S. annual foreign aid, we are called racist and anti-Semitic when we question the Israeli Lobby and its unique, unhealthy and quite probably illegal hold on American foreign policy.
That is a condition the American public may find increasingly difficult to support. But Nancy Pelosi got her finger in the apology-pie, without a moment’s delay,
"Congressman Moran's comments were not only inappropriate, they were offensive," Pelosi said. "He has properly apologized. His comments have no place in the Democratic Party."
One can only presume that Jim Moran's impeachment is off the table.
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Media comment;
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- Press TV-US Congressman remarks infuriate Jews
- The Jewish Daily Forward-Embattled Aipac Lobbyists Take Divergent Paths
- New Statesman-UK-Saying the unsayable
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency-NY-AIPAC lobbies for Iran sanctions
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