THE PALM BEACH POST, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1987
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Lobby's influence on Israeli
policy due to skill in Congress
New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON -- The Reagan administration notified Congress at 5:57
p.m. Friday, May 29, of its intention to sell 1,600 Maverick antitank
missiles to Saudi Arabia.
Within half an hour, lobbyists from the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, the only group registered to lobby Congress on
legislation affecting Israel, were on the telephone to legislators
about the proposal.
Over the next 13 days, the committee mobilized its nationwide
network of supporters with a series of memorandums and telephone
calls urging them to lobby Congress.
Though it is unclear whether the committee, known as AIPAC, can
take all the credit, more than 260 members of Congress co-sponsored
resolutions to block the sale, prompting President Reagan to withdraw
it.
To some, like Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., the incident demonstrated
that the lobbyists from AIPAC were, in his words, "extremely
effective" on Capitol Hill.
AIPAC's influence over the executive branch is a result, in part,
of its skills in lobbying Congress.
Interviews with dozens of lawmakers, politicians and present and
former AIPAC officials provide a picture of how the lobby actually
works -- how it seeks to inform and influence members of Congress,
both in Washington and back home.
The AIPAC lobbyists "are professionals in every sense of the
word," said Hyde, a member of the House Intelligence and Foreign
Affairs committees who has often clashed with them over arms sales
and other issues. "They bring clarity of purpose with passionate
commitment to everything they do. They are never ambiguous. The
president's foreign policy should be so effective."
The AIPAC lobby is a well-oiled machine, a model for other lobbies
in a technological age, and there is no evidence to suggest that its
effectiveness has been diminished by the disclosure of Israel's role
in either the Iran-Contra affair or the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard,
the Washington intelligence analyst convicted last year of spying for
Israel.
According to members of Congress, AIPAC is one of the most
successful lobbies on Capitol Hill for these reasons: It has a
simple, coherent message and is motivated by single minded devotion
to a cause. Unlike business lobbies, the AIPAC lobbyists are not
seeking financial benefits for their members.
Though AIPAC does not endorse or give money to candidates, it is
perceived as influencing many campaign contributions. Israel's
friends in Congress are often rewarded with such contributions from
individual AIPAC members and from pro-Israel political action
committees.
Many in Congress are predisposed to help Israel. Morris Amitay,
former executive director of AIPAC, said that any legislation deemed
important to Israel starts with "a consistent, reliable base" of 200
supporters in the 435-member House and 40 to 45 of the 100
senators.
A lobby is only as good as the quality of the information it
supplies to members of Congress, and lawmakers say that AIPAC
generally supplies timely and reliable information.
Thomas Dine, executive director of AIPAC and one of its six
registered lobbyists, is continually urging the 55,000 members to
become citizen lobbyists. "Issues are won or lost on Capitol Hill not
because of what takes place in Washington, but because of what
constituents want", he said in an interview.
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HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS
FROM
"THE PROTOCOLS OF
ZION"
7.1. The intensification of armaments, the
increase of police forces - are all essential... there should be in
all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of
the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police
and soldiers.
7.2. Throughout Europe... we must create
ferments, discords and hostility... we must use great cunning...
during negotiations... we shall keep... the mask of honesty... In
this way... the Goyim... will still continue to accept us as the...
saviours...
7.5. We must compel the governments of the
GOYIM to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived
plan... by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly
promoted by us through the means... of the press, which, with a few
exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our
hands.
15.4. We shall create... free masonic lodges...
the members... will be almost all the agents of international and
national police... the police is in a position... to use its own
particular measures with the insubordinate...
15.5. People who... enter into secret societies
are... mostly light-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty...
but if there should arise in its midst a plot, then at the head of
that plot will be no other than one of our most trusted
servants...
15.6. The GOYIM enter the lodges... in the
hope... to get a nibble at the public pie... they thirst for the
emotion of success and applause, of which we are...
generous...
15.7. To bring them to such a pitch of stupid
blindness is it not a proof of the degree to which the mind of the
Goyim is undeveloped in comparison with our mind?
15.8. We have not counted the victims of the
GOY cattle... but for that we have given them such a position on the
earth as they could not even have dreamed of...
