AIPAC Fully Owns The US Congress, Israel Gets Its Money…

Not much cash, if any, from the mas­sive $95 bil­lion war fund­ing pack­age passed by the US House will go to Ukraine. Already, there is much talk that much of the aid in weapon­ry that has gone to that war effort has gone to the black mar­ket, arms deal­ers, and ter­ror groups. The bill passed with over­whelm­ing bipar­ti­san sup­port, some­thing not seen in Washington these days except for sup­port for Israel, will now go to the Senate for final approval. After that, it is on to Joe Biden’s desk, where he anx­ious­ly awaits to attach his sig­na­ture, mak­ing it law.
The mon­ey allo­cat­ed for Ukraine will go toward prop­ping up that effort, if for noth­ing else, to try to poke a fin­ger into Russia’s eye. Many experts have argued that the war in Ukraine is already lost. Nevertheless, American arma­ments will flow from its stor­age facil­i­ties to Ukraine. At the same time, your tax dol­lars go toward fund­ing the mil­i­tary-indus­tri­al com­plex build­ing of new tanks, anti­air­craft guns, air defens­es, bul­lets, etc. The fat cats in America will get even fat­ter while the slaugh­ter continues.

According to Reuters:

Specifically, the allo­ca­tion will see:

• $5.2bn go to replen­ish­ing and expand­ing Israel’s mis­sile and rock­et defense system;
• $3.5bn for buy­ing advanced weapons sys­tems and $1bn to enhance weapons production;
• $4.4bn for oth­er sup­plies and ser­vices to Israel and
• $9.2bn for human­i­tar­i­an pur­pos­es, includ­ing in the Gaza Strip and the occu­pied West Bank.It seems that Israel is not just a state of the United States; it is the num­ber one state in the Union. Shockingly, while all this give­away is going on, every­thing is falling apart in the oth­er fifty states in America. Pervasive home­less­ness, pover­ty, decrepit infra­struc­ture, sui­cides, depres­sion, stu­dent loan death, the list is long. Still, nobody cares about the tax­pay­ing peo­ple of the United States who work, play by the rules, and pay their tax­es. They get noth­ing for being good citizens.
  The American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC uses a bril­liant strat­e­gy. It allows nine mil­lion eight hun­dred and forty peo­ple (9,840,00) to con­trol three hun­dred and thir­ty-two mil­lion, two hun­dred and sev­en­ty-eight thou­sand, and two hun­dred oth­ers, 332,278,200.(A)Here’s how it works: AIPAC lob­bies Congress to make sure that any crit­i­cism of what Israel does is deemed antisemitic.
  Antisemitism, in a nut­shell, is seen as hos­til­i­ty or prej­u­dice against Jews. Its broad inter­pre­ta­tion allows Israel and its back­ers to label any­one who speaks out against its war crimes and atroc­i­ties as antisemites.
  The char­ac­ter­i­za­tion is so broad and base­less that only the most blink­ered Israeli syco­phants believe it anymore.
  That, of course, includes the American President Joe Biden, who just yes­ter­day labeled College kids at Columbia University and oth­ers protest­ing Israel’s geno­cide in Palestine antisemitic.
  (B) AIPAC pours huge amounts of dol­lars into the cam­paign cof­fers of most of the 435 US House of Representatives mem­bers. It does the same for most, if not all, of the 100 US Senators. Pouring huge sums of cash into the cof­fers of most of the 535 mem­bers of both hous­es of Congress, Republicans, and Democrats, ensures that Israel gets its mon­ey regard­less of which par­ty is in power.
  We do not have exact fig­ures of AIPAC’s expen­di­tures on elect­ing the peo­ple they want in pow­er in Washington, D.C.; still, $26.38bn for Israel is a huge return on investment. 
  © According to many inde­pen­dent reports, AIPAC not only works assid­u­ous­ly to deter­mine who gets elect­ed to the US House and Senate, but it also works to remove the few mem­bers who do not tow the Israeli line of lies and deception.
  Slate report­ed AIPAC is spend­ing up to One hun­dred mil­lion dol­lars M$100 in the upcom­ing Democratic Primaries. This huge infu­sion of mon­ey will go toward remov­ing mem­bers of the squad-Black and Brown mem­bers who have not tak­en AIPAC’s mon­ey to do Israel’s bidding.

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• Congress mem­bers who were more sup­port­ive of Israel at the start of the Gaza war received over $100,000 more on aver­age from pro-Israel donors dur­ing their last elec­tion than those who most sup­port­ed Palestine, a Guardian analy­sis of cam­paign data shows. Those who took more mon­ey most often called for US mil­i­tary sup­port and backed Israel’s response, even as Gaza’s civil­ian death toll mount­ed, the find­ings show. The analy­sis, which looks at posi­tions tak­en dur­ing the war’s first six weeks, does not prove any par­tic­u­lar mem­ber changed their posi­tion because they received pro-Israel cam­paign dona­tions. However, some cam­paign finance experts who viewed the data argue that donor spend­ing helped fuel Congress’s over­whelm­ing sup­port for Israel. About 82% of Congress mem­bers were more sup­port­ive of Israel, and just 9% were more sup­port­ive of Palestine dur­ing this peri­od. The remain­der had “mixed” views. Legislators cat­e­go­rized as sup­port­ive of Israel received about $125,000 on aver­age dur­ing their last elec­tion, while those sup­port­ive of Palestine on aver­age took about $18,000. The vol­ume and breadth of the donors’ spend­ing is con­sid­er­able: over $58m went to cur­rent Congress mem­bers, and all but 33 received dona­tions. (The Guardian).

AIPAC’s mon­ey and influ­ence in American pol­i­tics also cen­sured Representative Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian in the Congress, for dar­ing to speak out against Israeli geno­cide in Palestine. Georgia Republican Rich McCormick and AIPAC stoolie intro­duced that cen­sure motion.
AIPAC is not sat­is­fied with its stran­gle­hold on the US Congress. In 2021, it cre­at­ed a polit­i­cal action com­mit­tee, enabling the orga­ni­za­tion to con­tribute direct­ly to polit­i­cal cam­paigns. Where else is this kind of thing allowed? This is not a sit­u­a­tion as guar­an­teed by the con­sti­tu­tion for cit­i­zens to lob­by their gov­ern­ment. This is a for­eign enti­ty lob­by­ing the gov­ern­ment, choos­ing who gets elect­ed and even who gets cen­sured on behalf of a for­eign gov­ern­ment. Talk about a for­eign pow­er inter­fer­ing in our elec­tions- Israel does it in broad day­light and with the full coöper­a­tion of both polit­i­cal parties.
When will the American peo­ple wake up from their racist slum­ber and see what is going on?

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.