Sanktionen und Doppelmoral - Fortsetzung.
Wenn es Sanktionen gegen Rußland gibt, müßte es auch Sanktionen gegen die USA, Israel, China und ... und ... und ... geben.
Was aber nicht der Fall ist. Im Fall USA-Israel ist das ganze ja noch grotesker, denn da findet statt Sanktionen das Gegenteil statt. Es gibt intensive Geld- und Militärhilfe für Israel.
Zum Thema Lobbyarbeit:
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AIPAC president David Steiner, 1992In 1992, AIPAC president David Steiner was forced to resign after he was recorded boasting about his political influence in obtaining aid for Israel.
DS: You know what I got for, I met with
[U.S. Secretary of State] Jim Baker and I cut a deal with him. I got, besides the $3 billion, you know they're looking for the Jewish votes, and I'll tell him whatever he wants to hear. . .
HK: Right.
DS:
Besides the $10 billion in loan guarantees which was a fabulous thing, $3 billion in foreign, in military aid, and I got almost a billion dollars in other goodies that people don't even know about.
HK: Such as?
DS:
$700 million in military draw-down, from equipment that the United States Army's going to give to Israel; $200 million the U.S. government is going to preposition materials in Israel, which Israel can draw upon; put them in the global warning protection system; so when if there's a missile fired, they'll get the same advanced notification that the U.S., is notified, joint military exercises—I've got a whole shopping list of things.
HK: So this is from Baker?
DS:
From Baker and from the Pentagon.
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DS: No, we need money, like we got a guy, Byron Dorgan, in North Dakota, who's going to be very good for us and we need money to make sure that he gets in. We've got people like that, because [unintelligible], whatever you give them would be a tickle on the elephant's behind. But when you give $5,000 or $10,000 to Bob Kasten, that's very meaningful.
HK: Let me ask you, I understand what you're saying. Clinton, when Clinton first started running a year ago, did he need money at that time?
DS: Yes he did.
HK: I mean, did you help him out, 'cause that's the time. . .
DS: I personally am not allowed, as president of AIPAC, to get involved in the presidential campaign, because I have to deal with whoever wins.
You know, I've got to go see Bush if he's there, but I helped him, we raised over a million dollars for him in New Jersey.
HK: For Clinton?
DS: For Clinton.
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DS:
I've known Bill for seven, eight years from the National Governors Association. I know him on a personal basis. I have friends. One of my friends is Hillary Clinton's scheduler, one of my officer's daughters works there. We gave two employees from AIPAC leave of absences to work on the campaign. I mean, we have a dozen people in that campaign, in the headquarters.
HK: You mean in Little Rock?
DS: In Little Rock, and they're all going to get big jobs. We have friends. I also work with a think tank, the Washington Institute. I have Michael Mandelbaum and Martin Indyk being foreign policy advisers. Steve Speigel—we've got friends—this is my business.
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DS: Let me tell you the problem with the $10 billion in loan guarantees, right? We only have the first year. We have authorization from Congress, but it's at the discretion of the president every year thereafter, so if Bush is there, he could say, you know, use it as a club, you know.
'If you don't give up Syria, I won't give you the money. If you don't give up the Golan Heights.' It's at the discretion of the president. And that's why we need a friendly president and we have Bill Clinton's ear. I talked to Bill Clinton.
HK: And Bill Clinton has made a commitment that if he's elected . . . ?
DS: He's going to be very good for us.
HK: And he'll go ahead with the loan guarantees?
DS: We didn't talk about that specifically, listen, I didn't ask him that, but I have full confidence that we're going to have a much better situation. He's got Jewish friends. A girl who worked for me at AIPAC stood up for them at their wedding. Hillary lived with her. I mean we have those relationships. We have never had that with Bush. Susan Thomases, who's in there, worked with me on the Bradley campaign. We worked together for 13 years. She's In there with the family. They stay with her when they come to New York. One of my officers, Monte Friedkin, is one of the biggest fund-raisers for them. I mean, I have people like that all over the country.
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DS: We're talking now. We don't have no commitments yet. We're just negotiating.
We're more interested right now, in the secretary of state and the secretary of National Security Agency. That's more important to us.
HK: If Clinton is elected, who do you think will be secretary of state?
DS: We don't know yet, we're negotiating.
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http://www.wrmea.com/wrmea-archives/144 ... -tape.html-> wrmea.com/wrmea-archives/144-washington-report-archives-1988-1993/decemberjanuary-1992-93/7066-the-complete-unexpurgated-aipac-tape.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Steiner_(AIPAC)
-> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Steiner_(AIPAC)
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American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeDas American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC, dt.: „Amerikanisch-israelischer Ausschuss für öffentliche Angelegenheiten“) ist eine pro-israelische Lobby in den USA mit über 100.000 Mitgliedern. Es wurde 1953 durch Isaiah L. Kenen als American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs gegründet und später in American Israel Public Affairs Committee umbenannt. In den USA gilt es als die mächtigste unter den pro-israelischen Lobbys und als eine der mächtigsten Lobbys der USA überhaupt.
Mitglieder sind oder waren unter anderem die folgenden amerikanischen Politiker:
George W. Bush, ehemaliger Präsident der USA, Republikanische Partei
George H. W. Bush, ehemaliger Präsident der USA, Republikanische Partei
Dick Cheney, ehemaliger Vizepräsident der USA, Republikanische Partei
Nancy Pelosi, ehemalige Sprecherin des US-Repräsentantenhauses, Demokratische Partei
Bill Clinton, ehemaliger Präsident der USA, Demokratische Partei
Hillary Clinton, ehemalige US-Außenministerin, Demokratische Partei
Condoleezza Rice, ehemalige US-Außenministerin, Republikanische Partei
John Kerry, Senator, war Kandidat der Demokratischen Partei für die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2004
John McCain, Senator, war Kandidat der Republikanischen Partei für die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2008
Israelische Politiker:
Ehud Olmert, Kadima, früher Likud
Jitzchak Rabin, Awoda
Schimon Peres, parteilos, ehemaliges Mitglied der Awoda
Benjamin Netanjahu, Likud
Ehud Barak, ehemaliges Mitglied der Awoda
Ariel Sharon, Kadima, früher Likud
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_I ... _Committee-> de.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee
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US Militärhilfe an Israel
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Israel.gif-> upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/US_aid_to_Israel.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_aid_to_ ... States_aid-> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_aid_to_Israel#United_States_aid