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"There Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — and Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It" - my latest for @theintercept on how we rightly go after the pro-gun lobby but give the pro-Israel lobby a pass:
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
"In 2005, Steven Rosen, then a senior official with [AIPAC], sat down for dinner with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg... 'You see this napkin?' Rosen asked Goldberg. 'In twenty-four hours, [AIPAC] could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.'"
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
Yes, AIPAC doesn't do direct donations to candidates but, as I explain in my piece, it still helps raise tons of cash for candidates, and I even mention how @tomfriedman of all people explained it to me, very bluntly, back in 2013:
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
It's obviously not right to suggest it's only about "the Benjamins" - there are plenty of other explanations for US support for Israel, see below - but to pretend the Benjamins play no part is just disingenuous, as I argue here:
theintercept.com/2019/02/12/the…
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