Congressman Tells How Israel Lobby AIPAC Smeared Him as Anti-Semitic for Voting Against Iraq War
#StopAIPAC #BDS Saying that Israel and the Israeli lobbying group AIPAC considered the US invasion of the Middle East a top priority, Virginia Congressman Jim Moran describes how he refused to bow to AIPAC's demand that he vote for the war, for which he was then subjected to a campaign portraying him as anti-semitic. The overthrow of Saddam and other Arab governments has been a goal of Israel for decades, articulated in the paper by Oded Yinon entitled "A Strategy or Israel for the Nineteen Eighties." Yinon wrote: "Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel." In 1996 future Defense Department officials of the Bush administration published a paper intended as a policy guide for Israeli prim