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The reasons for the iron lock AIPAC has on US congressional Middle East policy is covered by Eric Fleischauer of the Decatur Daily. http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040905/davis.shtml He writes: ' Members of a lobbying group accused of channeling classified information from an alleged spy in the Pentagon to the Israeli government were instrumental in putting an Alabama congressman in office. A probe by the FBI targeted Larry Franklin, a senior analyst in a Pentagon office dealing with Middle East af-fairs. Officials accused him of providing classified information about Iran's nuclear program to two officials employed by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee . . . The major beneficiary of pro-Israel campaign contributions in this state has been U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, DEMOCRAT-Birmingham. According to an estimate by the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, Davis received $206,595 in pro-Israel contributions in advance of the 2002 election. This despite the fact he was not an incumbent, and despite the fact his five-term incumbent opponent, Earl Hilliard, was also a Democrat. Even under the conservative CRP estimate, Davis' 2002 pro-Israel receipts were more than double his total contributions from his previous try at Hilliard's seat, in 2000. Seventy-six percent of Davis' contributions during the 2002 election cycle came from outside Alabama, most from New York City. ----------- Carl Levin (D-Michigan); Tom Harkin (D- Iowa); Tom Daschle (D - South Dakota); Frank Lautenberg (D - New Jersey); Arlen Spector (R - Pennsylvania); Mitch McConnell (R - Kentucky); Richard Durbin (D - Illinois); Max Baucus (D - Montana); Jeff Bingaman (D - New Mexico); Charles Robb (D - Virginia); Kent Conrad (D - North Dakota); Byron Dorgan (D - North Dakota); Tim Johnson (D - South Dakota); Sam Gejdenson (D - Connecticut); Richard Gephardt (D - Missouri); Ronald Wyden (D - Oregon); Shelley Berkley (D - Nevada); David Obey (D - Wisconsin); Frost Martin (D - Texas); Thomas Delay (R - Texas); Eliot Engel (D - New York); Sander Levin (D - Michigan); Nita Lowey (D - New York); Benjamin Gilman (R - New York); Lane Evans (D - Illinois), et cetera. The reason -- these people, listed above, are some of the current golden boys of the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) -

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The major beneficiary of pro-Israel campaign contributions in this state has been U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, DEMOCRAT-Birmingham. According to an estimate by the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, Davis received $206,595 in pro-Israel contributions in advance of the 2002 election. This despite the fact he was not an incumbent, and despite the fact his five-term incumbent opponent, Earl Hilliard, was also a Democrat.

Earl Hilliard and Cynthia McKinney were talking a lot of seditious trash about George Bush knowing about 9/11 in advance, etc. AIPAC was doing the Lord's work here, in getting rid of Hilliard. He's long gone. Unfortunately, Cynthia McKinney was elected again.