Blankfort interviews Beattie whose book ends arguments about who controls Congress, who shapes US Middle East policy and that US war on Iraq was about oil. Not according to Congressional staffers. Beattie's conclusions came from interviewing more than 150 Congressional staffers. He also speaks about the âsocializationâ of Americans to support Israel and their ignorance of how Israel works, how it dispossessed Palestinans in 1948; he explains how AIPAC spots prospective pliable members of Congress from ranks of city level employees and readies them to serve Israel's interests; how it set up a separate tax-exempt foundation, America Israel Education Foundation, to send politicians to Israel and bypass laws against lobby paid trips; how Israel lobbyists created âstealthâ PACs to disguise their contributions to pro-Israel members of Congress and much more.
Interviewer Jeff Blankfort
"Congress and The Shaping of the Middle East, by Kirk J Beattie. Seven Stories Press
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