2/ One person worked at AIPAC for 25 yrs - under Kenen (pic), Amitay, Dine, Sher, & Kohr. Loushy never approached him.
Who did Loushy ignore? ME.
I worked with Rosen, Weisman, Rosenberg, Bloomfield, et al. Some were bitter after interpersonal clashes, not policy. One had a -
3/ one of the interviewed developed such a pathological hatred of Israel & AIPAC, Tom Dine told me he suspected a breakdown.
Per one report, the New Israel Fund paid for the docu. NIF always despised @AIPAC, much prefering the partisan, Abbas-kissing J Street.
4/ I left AIPAC in 1997, but still admire its efforts to strengthen the US-Israel alliance.
AIPAC never gave campaign contributions or endorsed candidates (unlike J Street). To this day, it works with pro-Israel activists across the US who support candidates from both parties.
5/ .@MorLoushy Below are pictures of me with a dedication from Tom Dine, and a Pic of AIPAC staffers strategizing at a Washington Policy Conference - Dine, Toby Dershowitz, Rosen, and me.
Was your failure to ask my opinion about @AIPAC a sin of omission or commission?
6/ H/T @paulrubens for alerting to docu's claim "first time that founding fathers of AIPAC are speaking out."
What BS. @MorLoushy doesnt pick up AIPAC story til the 1980s.
Founding fathers? Maybe sons & nephews.
Paternity: Kenen, Irv Kane, Israel Miller, Ed Sanders, P Bernstein.
7/ Sorry @MorLoushy. I have not seen your film yet, but you lost me when you considered MJ Rosenberg a bonafide source. For 15 yrs he has been spewing hatred, even calling for recognizing Hamas in 2006. More on that here: jpost.com/jewish-world/t…
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The US raises treatment of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti and not allowing Int'l Red Cross reps to see security prisoners in Israel.
Now this? The US is seeking the death of Israel by a thousand cuts.
Barghouti is a thug in prison for life after ordering bomb attacks during the Intifadas that killed 5, including a Greek Orthodox Priest. He was a leader of the Al Aqsa Brigade terrorist group.
It's claimed that Barghouti, now a #Hamas fan, is a potential successor to Mahmoud Abbas. Is that why the #Biden Admin is supporting him? @JakeSullivan46 @NSC_Spox
As far as the Int' Red Cross visiting Pals in prison, how dare @SecBlinken make that demand when they do not see Israeli civilian hostages?! wapo.st/3xh0r2s
2/ You can tell a lot about a person by his friends.
Here's Marwan Barghouti with his prison pals -- Samir Kuntar, who smashed a baby's skull with his rifle butt during a terrorist attack, and Ahmed Saadat, who ordered the shooting of Israeli Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
Kuntar was released in an exchange & joined Hizbullah. He was killed in an air strike while planning a terrorist attack on the Golan.
3/ You can tell a lot about a person by his WIFE's friends. Here's Mrs. Barghouti, Fadwa, with #Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
I am enthralled w #ghostsofbeirut, but a tinge of PTSD.
I was in Beirut in 1982. Alexander Hotel (Bob Simon's room). It had a nice outdoor cafe (used to be indoors til a bomb). Watched the IDF missile shooting down a Syrian jet, Syrian troops evacuate, Arafat & crew sail off. 1/
#Beirut 2/ Silly me. I bought a postcard & went to a post office to buy a stamp. Everyone howled. No service in yrs.
Went to Bashir Gemayal's office to talk with an aide about the president-to-be's PR in DC.
Not to be: the office & Gemayal were blown to smithereens 2 wks later.
#GhostsofBeirut@issacharoff 3/
PTSD? I still have rolls of film, developed but not viewed. Mental pic of the entrance to huge PLO cave/armory & a Saiqa soldier sitting as a guard, his skeleton in full uniform.
A mortar (no warhead) as a paperweight. Shrapnel was everywhere.
"3D analysis shows how Israeli troops fired into group of civilians."
WaPo deep dive is a classic case of JOURNALISTIC MALPRACTICE by Evan Hill who just left NYT where he crucified Israel for the May 2021 war in Gaza, He lied hid evidence, old clips. 1/ washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Journalistic Malpractice 2/ @EvenHill, formerly from NYT, Al Jazeera, Human Rights Watch. He wrote civilians were killed in Israeli raid that nabbed "several Palestinian fighters." At least 8!, including commanders.
The civilians - & all of Nablus - are used as human shields.
J Malpractice 3/
Hill was behind a NYT hit job, “Gaza’s Deadly Night” It claimed Israel collapsed Gaza apt buildings, killing many.
Hamas had a massive tunnel network UNDER residential areas. Hill ignored the fact & pics.
My indictment of Hill is here: jcpa.org/article/the-me…
#Purim's over; costumes are in the attic. With some trepidation, many Jews see the #Passover preparations & cleaning ahead.
Traditionally, this is a time to get Matza for the holiday.
125 y.a. students at Mikve Yisrael ag school were harvesting wheat. Why was a Rabbi there? 1/
Making of Matza is very meticulous. No water can enter the process until the last minute, lest the grain, flour, or matza becomes leavened. Must complete the process from the second H2O is added to the flour, kneaded, rolled out & baked in under 18 minutes.
Rabbis supervise.
2 types of Matza made in the Ashkenazi world -- machine-made & hand-made. Below: Round hand-made baked in the UAE & machine-made in Haifa ~ 1920.
Workers had signs up to remind them to have intention to fulfill the mitzva of matza; it's not automatic.
Also a sign: don't smoke.
This is outrageous on so many levels. 1/ 1. The Palestinians deny the existence of the Jewish People in Biblical time, even the existence of the Temple. 2. Palestinian looters & grave diggers plunder archeological sites constantly. 3. Most Pals aren't... nytimes.com/2023/01/05/art…
2/ "Palestinian relic" 3. Most Arab residents did not show up in Palestine until maybe 1400 yrs ago & many only in last 150 yrs. Erakat's claim to have been a Canaanite is bunk. 4. Dangerous precedent by US. Imagine US Embassy trucks emptying Israel Museum, Shrine of the Book...
3/ Pal relic.
...4. Pals claim the contents as well of Bible Lands Museum, Rockefeller Museum... 5. Pals strategy is to delegitimize the Jewish State any way it can, including religiously. Therefore, destruction of JEWISH RELICS on the Temple Mt.
.@USAmbIsrael Thomas Nides is upset that an Israeli visited the holiest Jewish site, the Temple Mt.
We have been "very clear in conversations w the Israeli gov'f on the issue of preserving the status quo in Jerusalem’s holy sites. Actions that prevent that are unacceptable.”
1/
2/ Amb Nides, the position of the High Commissioner of the Palestine Mandate ended in 1948.
Since Min Ben Gvir's visit took place during the middle of night DC time, I presume you got no guidance from DC, which would have been much tougher, like calling for an FBI interrogation.
3/ Amb Nides
It's probably better Ben Gvir got his visit to the Temple Mt out of the way early. Imagine the outcry the Palestinians & State Dept would have ginned up if the visit came in 2-3 wks.
Did USG issue anything to condemn the threats Hamas issued to deny freedom to pray?