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Midterm scoreboard: Massive pro-Israel lobby influence

Posted by: adonis49 on: November 10, 2018

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Midterm scoreboard reveals massive pro-Israel influence on Congressional candidates

 CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG  NOVEMBER 1, 2018  AIPAC, BILL NELSON, MIDTERM ELECTIONS, NORPAC, PACS

Midterm scoreboard reveals massive pro-Israel influence on Congressional candidates

NORPAC event for Senator Bill Nelson, D-FL (March 8, 2018). Nelson has received nearly a $million from pro-Israel PACs. NORPAC says its primary purpose is to support candidates committed to Israel. More photos here.

A detailed scoreboard on candidates for the Senate and House of Representatives shows that 28 pro-Israel PACs and numerous pro-Israel individuals have given candidates millions of dollars in campaign contributions. 
The scoreboard presents 29 bills and resolutions that were introduced on behalf of Israel.. 20 passed into law or on-record statement, many by unanimous consent. The legislation has accrued a total of over 3,300 co-sponsors… 
Over 80 congressional challengers have also accepted donations from at least one pro-Israel PAC; most from more than one… Read more:

A just-released Midterm Elections Scoreboard shows that Israel partisans have dominated Congress over the past 10 years, despite the preference of American voters, who consistently wish evenhanded policies and feel the U.S. gives Israel too much money.

The detailed scoreboard on candidates for the Senate and House of Representatives* shows that 28 pro-Israel PACs and numerous pro-Israel individuals have given candidates millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

There are currently no pro-Palestine PACs (although one of the pro-Israel PACs supports some Palestinian positions).

The scoreboard presents 29 bills and resolutions that were introduced on behalf of Israel, some openly drafted by AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Twenty have passed into law or on-record statement, many by unanimous consent. The legislation has accrued a total of over 3,300 co-sponsors.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at JAC event. JAC advocates for “a strong US-Israel relationship.” See video here and here.

In the rare cases when pro-Israel bills were unpopular, the split usually occurred along party lines, suggesting that the action was motivated by partisan politics, not deviation from pro-Israel  positions.

Only one bill explicitly supportive of Palestinians (opposing Israel’s widespread imprisonment of children) has been introduced. The bill has so far garnered 29 cosponsors.

The Scoreboard was compiled by If Americans Knew, a nonpartisan organization that focuses on Israel-Palestine and the U.S. connection.

Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) at NORpac event.

Five pieces of legislation in the study addressed military aid to Israel, including the Memo of Understanding (MOU) that President Obama signed, promising Israel $38 billion over the next 10 years.

A bill currently before Congress cements this nonbinding agreement into law – the largest such aid package in U.S. history and an amount greater than US military aid to all other countries in the world combined.

American taxpayers presently provide nearly a quarter of Israel’s annual defense budget. Six in ten Americans feel that is too much.

Six pieces legislation grant congressional supported to Israel’s “right to self-defense” against the unarmed enclave of Gaza or the Palestinians in Jerusalem;

Six others took a stand against actions of the United Nations which sought to safeguard Palestinian rights;

An additional four supported the erosion of Americans’ rights to free speech.

In addition to bills and resolutions, the Scoreboard includes 11 open letters – some penned by AIPAC – to presidents and other influential leaders.

Six of these letters endorsed pro-Israel policy and were signed by a significant number of legislators. The five letters encouraging actions that would benefit Palestinians gathered modest support.

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) at NORpac event.

An overwhelming majority of the incumbents running for re-election voted for the pro-Israel legislation and signed the pro-Israel letters.

The Scoreboard also indicates which incumbent candidates received campaign donations from pro-Israel political action committees (PACs), which totaled over $2.2 million for the 2018 election cycle. Pro-Israel Individuals contributed an additional $13 million.

Thirteen Senators and 14 Representatives received money and/or endorsements from five or more pro-Israel PACs.

Over 80 congressional challengers have also accepted donations from at least one pro-Israel PAC; most from more than one. According to Open Secrets, there are currently 28 pro-Israel PACs.

Unlike most PACs, which announce their focus in their name, most of the pro-Israel PACs use names that disguise their focus, such as “Americans United in Support of Democracy,” “Americans for Good Government,” and “Because We Care.”

Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) at JAC event.

While there are currently no pro-Palestine PACs, one pro-Israel PAC, J-Street, is supportive of some Palestinians rights. However, J-Street aligns with Israel on many of its major policies, and supports the massive aid to Israel.

Open Secrets, a project of the Center for Responsive Politics, points out, “Few lobbies dedicated to international issues are so active and well-financed as the Israel lobby.”

Open Secrets continues, “A powerful pro-Israel force has carved out an influential place in American campaigns in the form of super PAC mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.”

Adelson’s contributions to national political campaigns in 2018 alone reached over $113 million – all to Republicans/conservatives.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) at NORpac event. More photos of Cotton and others are here.

The Scoreboard indicates that a substantial number of the 410 incumbents on the ballot in both houses voted pro-Israel most of the time: 355 members of Congress (87%) had a pro-Israel score over 70%.

63% of House incumbents (240 of 378) had 100% pro-Israel scores – 74% of those (177) were Republican.

One Senator (Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-MS) had 100% pro-Israel rating; 78% of Senate incumbents (25 of 32) had a rating of 80% or higher. Six of these were Republican.

Congress considered only one piece of explicitly pro-Palestine legislation during the entire decade: Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) offered HR 4391 “No Way to Treat a Child,” which has garnered just 7% congressional backing (29 cosponsors) .

“No Way to Treat a Child” challenges Israel’s illegal practice of detaining, interrogating, and torturing Palestinian children – part of the brutal military occupation that has been ongoing for over half a century.

“To avoid the clashes, he started running in the opposite direction but a soldier spotted him and ran after him. Once the soldier caught him, he was pushed to the floor, kicked and punched several times…” (read more here and here).

In the words of the No Way to Treat a Child campaign, “Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes between 500 and 700 children in military courts each year.”

UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund, reports that ill-treatment of children (as well as adults) in the Israeli military detention system is “widespread, systematic, and institutionalized.”

In spite of this documented disregard for international humanitarian law on the part of Israel, only 29 members of Congress (7%) have signed onto HR 4391.

If Americans Knew says that the scoreboards will be updated and expanded as more information becomes available, and has announced that it welcomes sourced information from readers.

NOTE: More information about the scoreboards is here. A Tutorial on using them, including background information on the project, is here. Documentaries about the Israel lobby are here, and below.

Documentaries on the Israel lobby:

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 * The House Scoreboard can be viewed in quick-loading sections by region, or as a whole (which takes up to 10 minutes to load):

  • Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California
  • Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho
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  • Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey New Mexico
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  • Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee
  • Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
  • Full version of all 50 states (remember to be patient: this takes about 5-10 minutes to load.)

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Mon cher Ado/Christiane . Part 47

Posted by: adonis49 on: November 10, 2018

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Mon cher Ado. Part 47

Georges Bejani posted on FB. 6 hrs · 

Le café du matin , quel agréable compagnon ! Celui de dix heures est toujours le bienvenu , Quant à celui de l’après midi , il est accueilli avec une révérence particulière .

Victoire , ma mère et Rosalie sa voisine en savaient quelque chose . En été surtout quand le soleil cognait elles s’installent à l’ombre au milieu des escaliers qui séparaient leurs maison , et se mettaient à papoter tout en sirotant un bon café turque que l’une ou l’autre avait mijoté de manière à obtenir le meilleur parfum qui soit .

Parfois je me joignais à ces deux cœurs généreuses qui m’ ont inoculé leur bonté. Aujourd’hui encore , continue à produire son effet dans mon coeur ravi de les avoir côtoyées un jour dans ma vie d’adolescent …

J’espère que là où vous êtes maintenant , le bon Dieu pense à vous servir de temps à autre un de ses bon café divin au milieu de son jardin paradisiaque …

Je vous embrasse mes chéries en vous serrant bien fort contre mon Coeur 

Hier , ma chère Christiane , suite à une coupure d’électricité , ce qui est tout à fait normale dans ce pays en ruine , j’ai pris la voiture pour aller chercher de la lumière sur les hauteurs du Mont-Liban …

Et là , sans comprendre ni comment ni pourquoi , je me suis arrêté devant l’église de Saint-Elie à Ain Aar et, tel un automate, je me suis dirigé à l’intérieur de ce lieu saint où l’on célébrait la messe du soir pour une dizaine de croyants qui fredonnaient des prières évangéliques afin que le bon Dieu exauce leurs vœux … (Oui, beaucoup aiment prier  ici: Les pretres sont charismatiques)

Et dans la semi-obscurité de l’église j’ai trouvé la splendide lumière que je cherchais …

C’était la première fois que j’entrais dans cette vieille église construite il y a exactement 250 ans par les hommes de ce village situé à plus de 500 mètres d’altitude et surplombant la mer .. (Et renove’ depuis peu, comme toutes les eglises qui ont des pretres actives. L’argent ne manque jamais pour les eglises et les mosques: les pauvres contribuent aussi)

Magnifique église du temps jadis , qui a gardé toute son humilité , et dont chaque pierre , chaque voûte , raconte les souffrances de la main qui les a hissées en offrande à Saint-Elie.

L’année de sa construction , en 1769, vit naître à l’autre bout de la Méditerranée , en Corse , Napoléon Bonaparte , l’un des plus grands généraux et hommes d’état de l’histoire .

Mais ce génie de la guerre , comme les humbles constructeurs de l’église de Ain-Aar , a dû se résigner a quitté tous les fastes de son empire pour aller rendre son dernier souffle à l’île de Sainte-Hélène où ses admirateurs , nos amis d’outre Manche , l’ont exilé … (Comment? Les constructeurs de l’eglise Saint-Elie furent aussi exiles par l’Angleterre? Avaient’-ils ralier Emir Bashir II? Just kidding)

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Moussa worst nightmares were Obama’s predictable USA drone attacks. Short story

Posted by: adonis49 on: November 10, 2018

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Moussa worst nightmares were Obama’s predictable USA drone attacks

L’une des hantises de Moussa est les drones, particulierement ceux envoyes par US president Obama: il etait friyant d’user a volonte’e et partout ses drones quand un des miliciens Islamists couvrait la une des medias.

Moussa est le maitre inconteste’ de l’embassade Americaine a Tripoli, evacuee’ pendant un temps.

Moussa a plusieurs sources de cash qui arrivent de tout azimut: les armes passant par le Sahara, la cocaine acheminee’ a Malte et puis dans tout l’Europe, les antiquites de Laptis Magna (pres de Serte? une cite’ bourgeouise du temps de l’empereur Romain Septime Severe, en 203, un originaire de la Syrie), le petrol, the slave trade…

Au debut des annees 90, Moussa le Libyen, etait au Caire quand il joinit les Freres Musulmans. Les flics de Moubarak l’ ont balance’ dans une voiture, roue’ de coups, matraque’, jete’ dans une avion pour etre recuperer par une autre C-17 a l’aeropore de Tirana

Les forces speciales Americaines en treillis noirs ont recommences les seances de matraquages, d’interrogations, la clavicule cassee’, prive’ de sommeil depuis 2 jours, un sac humide sur la tete, pendu a une potence par les poignets, et dans un body bag rempli de galce.

Moussa est ensuite achemine’ au danjon de Bagram en Afghanistan…

Le processus de produire un terrorist Islamic Sunnit.

Moussa est envoye’ en Libye pour combattre Kadhafi et il s’est fait appeller commandant d’une milice financee’ par Qatar.

Comme maitre de l’embassade Americaine pour un temps, Moussa recoit des journalistes et donne des interviews a toutes les chaines, friyant d’ entendre les calamites de cette region.

Moussa assure et confirme que l’embassade est securise’ et saine et sauve des attaques des autres milices qui la convoite.

Il a suffit qu’une fois Moussa se plaint dans un interview de la brutalite’ des Americains durant sa formation qu’un drone le carbonise.

Ce matin fatidique, Moussa avait bien dormi sans faire de cauchemares.

Moussa avait recu des rapports confirmant que les Americains sont tres satisfait de son job et de ses services.

Note: An edited version of an excerpt from the book “Mecaniques du Chaos” de Daniel Rondeau. A good read.

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