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This is a quote from a story in the Jewish Forward newspaper (via Angry Arab webblog):
"But then Jewish organizations, in the lead of a loose coalition of nonprofit groups, moved to block the reforms on travel, arguing that one of their most effective lobbying tools has been privately sponsored trips to Israel for lawmakers. Israel is the number one foreign destination of privately funded congressional trips, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Washington's powerful pro-Israel lobby, is the second largest underwriter of such overseas travel."
There is a lot of controversy being raised now, some of it predicated by this study done by a Harvard professor and a Professor from the Kennedy School of Government. They charge that pro-Israel lobbying groups have way too much power of US foreign policy.
http:// ksgnotes1.harvar d.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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