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21. Haaretz Editorial Board: AIPAC Is the pro-Netanyahu, anti-Israel Lobby

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-08-14/ty-article-opinion/aipac-is-the-pro-netanyahu-anti-israel-lobby/00000189-f4dc-d975-a9cf-ffdf38d80000

https://archive.ph/Ldoya

AIPAC is an American lobbying organization whose stated goal is to strengthen the Israeli-American relationship. The problem is that over the years, the organization has begun to work against its own stated goal by becoming the long arm of Benjamin Netanyahu in American politics. AIPAC members stood at his side in his fights against former President Barack Obama, including when Netanyahu addressed Congress in 2015 just two weeks before an Israeli election, a speech that caused enormous damage to the Israeli-American relationship.

Before U.S. Congressional elections last year, AIPAC announced its support for dozens of Republican candidates who denied the results of America’s 2020 presidential election and refused to accept President Joe Biden’s victory. AIPAC thereby effectively turned support for Israel into a mechanism for whitewashing former President Donald Trump and Trumpism. And all of this, of course, was done in the service of Netanyahu’s political interests.

In recent months, the organization’s affiliation with Netanyahu has grown even stronger, after it volunteered to help him soften opposition within the Democratic Party to his government’s legal overhaul. This help included flying 24 Democratic members of Congress to Israel so that Netanyahu could mollify them with lies and assure them that Israel would “remain a liberal democracy.” This event revealed AIPAC’s true face. It claims that it doesn’t take any position on internal Israeli political disputes, but in practice, it is helping Netanyahu in his battle to destroy democracy.

Effectively, the organization has become an operational wing of Netanyahu’s far-right government, one that peddles a false image of a liberal Israel in the United States and sells illusions to members of Congress. AIPAC’s willingness to abandon the fight over Israel’s character and lend a hand to it becoming alienated from its “shared values” with America obliges us to ask whether it is truly contributing to American-Israeli relations or serving as a vehicle for their destruction.

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