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AIPAC's Victory

(World Affairs Journal) Michael J. Totten - I was invited to speak at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington and it's clearer to me now than ever that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby at the throbbing center of conspiracy theories on the far-left and the far-right, is actually at the center of an iron-clad bipartisan consensus in our nation's capital. Not only did President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak, so did a long list of senators and representatives from both political parties. Democrats and Republicans are here in equal numbers not only on the stage, but also in the audience. I've met as many liberals here as conservatives. There were 14,000 of us inside the convention center. I saw at most 20 protesters outside from Occupy AIPAC, a measly little anti-Zionist spinoff from Occupy Wall Street. AIPAC would get nowhere if its insistence on a close and special relationship between the U.S. and Israel didn't resonate powerfully with American public opinion.
2012-03-09 00:00:00
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