"Israel Lobby Investigation" Documents: Jewish Agency to AIPAC money laundry

 

On Wednesday host Jeffrey Blankfort interviewed Grant F. Smith on his public radio program "Takes on the World" about newly unsealed Senate Foreign Relations Committee files investigating the Israel lobby.  Today the Israel Lobby Archive releases correspondence between the Jewish Agency (a quasi governmental organization headquartered in Jerusalem) and the American Zionist Council which housed AIPAC as its lobbying division.  The documents reveal quarterly $5,000 payments from the Jewish Agency to AIPAC for the lobbying newsletter "Near East Report" and stealth public relations programs to undermine American free speech.  The implications are discussed in the radio interview, available in the following audio link: Radio Interview: http://www.irmep.org/mp3/09082010kzyx.mp3 Israel Lobby Archive: http://www.IRmep.org/ila/ja-azc ***********************Radio Interview Highlights************************* http://www.irmep.org/mp3/09082010kzyx.mp3 00:00:45 Host Jeffrey Blankfort: peace processing and the Israel lobby 00:01:22 Legitimacy crisis: Abbas in, Hamas out and the US as "neutral" arbitrar 00:02:20 Colonization during the "settlement freeze" 00:03:15 $5 billion F-35 jet fighter potlatch 00:05:10 Massive US JP-8 jet fuel shipment to Israel 00:09:00 Purchase priorities: Iraqi and other ME weapons procurement 00:11:35 In trouble with the lobby EU to US: Stone, Thomas, Nasser, and de Groote 00:14:10 IRmep and Grant Smith's investigatory work 00:15:45 "Israel's Nuclear Arsenal" panel at the Spy Museum: free DvD offer 00:16:45 1960's birth of the Israel Lobby: The DOJ and Senate investigate 00:17:25 Key Findings: AIPAC's 7 year campaign to alter US ME press coverage 00:18:22 The Senate classified findings, because investigation failed 00:19:30 Am. Council for Judaism calls for investigation of Jewish Agency money laundering 00:20:26 AIPAC's campaign to shut down competing ideas: academia, media and government 00:20:50 Half century of targeting American free speech rights 00:21:16 Abraham Feinberg: Israel's nuclear weapons program funding coordinator and AIPAC donor 00:21:39 Two prong attack: Dimona propaganda, undermining Kennedy nonproliferation drive 00:22:03 The AIPAC media cover-up: Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons plant as "peaceful" 00:25:00 The mobsters who funded AIPAC when legitimate donors wouldn't 00:26:23 The American Council for Judaism's moral and legal challenges to AIPAC 00:27:18 The Israel lobby's hidden business model: global swaps with the Israeli gov't 00:30:50 The Jewish Agency's man on the Obama National Security Council: Dennis Ross 00:32:20 NPR turns down preferential access to declassified Israeli media manipulation files 00:34:23 Israel lobby coverage: overseas and alternative news only, forbidden in America 00:35:00 "62 tactics" to undermine American free speech rights in effect for 50 years 00:37:00 Free trips to Israel for opinion leaders, politicians and media personalities 00:38:55 Q&A ......a new movement is building http://www.irmep.org/mp3/09082010kzyx.mp3