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THE HILL - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) went after fellow
Democrat Jim Moran of Virginia, calling on him to retract his comments
about the Israel lobby. "His remarks were factually inaccurate and
recall an old canard that is not true, that the Jewish community
controls the media and the Congress," Hoyer said at a news conference in
the Capitol. In an interview published in the September-October issue of
Tikkun magazine, Moran said the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, or AIPAC, "has pushed this war from the beginning … They are
so well-organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -most
of them are quite wealthy -they have been able to exert power."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/hoyer-takes-aim-at-morans-aipac-
comment-2007-09-18.html
TIKKUN - Rabbi Lerner asks Congressman Steny Hoyer and Congressman Eric
Cantor to apologize not only to Congressman Moran but also to all
American Jews who support peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.
It took tremendous courage for Congressman Jim Moran to tell Tikkun
magazine of the power and influence of AIPAC and other sections of the
Israel Lobby. AIPAC is often described in the media as the most powerful
lobby in Washington, D.C., so it is no surprise that its friends and
supporters are now mobilizing to vilify Congressman Moran's comments.
House Republican Chief Deputy Whip Eric Cantor likened Congressman Moran
to Adoph Hitler on September 18th. "Unfortunately, Jim Moran has made it
a habit now to lash out to the American Jewish commnunit6\y. I think his
remarks are reprehensible, I think his remarks are anachronistic, and
hearken back to the day of Adolph Hitler, of the others, Mein Kamp, of
the protocols of the elders of zion, other sources that have become
reference to now, I'm sorry to say, a resurgent anti-semitic sentiment
world wide."
And House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued a statement
which seemed to add to the witch hunt by stating that Moran had claimed
that "the Jewish community controls the press, the media, the Congress,
and other institutions" and that therefore Moran "certainly oughta
retract remarks, and indicate he believes that he was inaccurate on the
facts." Congressman Moran said no such thing.
Steny Hoyer, defeated anti-war Congressman John Murtha for the
Democratic leadership post he now holds, and is reportedly one of the
major forces inside the Democratic leadership rejecting any serious
attempt to withhold funds for the war in Iraq and limiting what
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi might otherwise try to do to challenge Bush's
war, is a perfect example of the power of the Israel Lobby to shape
public discourse
What's new is that now that same McCarthyism (which labeled as
"anti-American" anyone who criticized U.S. policies around the world,
tactics actually first developed by the Stalinists all around the world
who called "anti-socialist" anyone who criticized the brutal
dictatorship of the Soviet Union), is now being used not on someone
criticizing Israel, but on someone who dares criticize an American
organization that has played a leading role in defending the most
right-wing policies of the State of Israel. As former Israel Minister of
Justice Yossi Beilin points out in an interview in Tikkun magazine,
AIPAC does not defend and support the Israeli government's policies when
Israel tried to move toward peace under Yitzhak Rabin - in fact, he
reports, they actually sought to undermine Rabin's peace efforts.
http://tikkun.org
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THE HILL - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) went after fellow
Democrat Jim Moran of Virginia, calling on him to retract his comments
about the Israel lobby. "His remarks were factually inaccurate and
recall an old canard that is not true, that the Jewish community
controls the media and the Congress," Hoyer said at a news conference in
the Capitol. In an interview published in the September-October issue of
Tikkun magazine, Moran said the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, or AIPAC, "has pushed this war from the beginning … They are
so well-organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -most
of them are quite wealthy -they have been able to exert power."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/hoyer-takes-aim-at-morans-aipac-
comment-2007-09-18.html
TIKKUN - Rabbi Lerner asks Congressman Steny Hoyer and Congressman Eric
Cantor to apologize not only to Congressman Moran but also to all
American Jews who support peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.
It took tremendous courage for Congressman Jim Moran to tell Tikkun
magazine of the power and influence of AIPAC and other sections of the
Israel Lobby. AIPAC is often described in the media as the most powerful
lobby in Washington, D.C., so it is no surprise that its friends and
supporters are now mobilizing to vilify Congressman Moran's comments.
House Republican Chief Deputy Whip Eric Cantor likened Congressman Moran
to Adoph Hitler on September 18th. "Unfortunately, Jim Moran has made it
a habit now to lash out to the American Jewish commnunit6\y. I think his
remarks are reprehensible, I think his remarks are anachronistic, and
hearken back to the day of Adolph Hitler, of the others, Mein Kamp, of
the protocols of the elders of zion, other sources that have become
reference to now, I'm sorry to say, a resurgent anti-semitic sentiment
world wide."
And House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued a statement
which seemed to add to the witch hunt by stating that Moran had claimed
that "the Jewish community controls the press, the media, the Congress,
and other institutions" and that therefore Moran "certainly oughta
retract remarks, and indicate he believes that he was inaccurate on the
facts." Congressman Moran said no such thing.
Steny Hoyer, defeated anti-war Congressman John Murtha for the
Democratic leadership post he now holds, and is reportedly one of the
major forces inside the Democratic leadership rejecting any serious
attempt to withhold funds for the war in Iraq and limiting what
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi might otherwise try to do to challenge Bush's
war, is a perfect example of the power of the Israel Lobby to shape
public discourse
What's new is that now that same McCarthyism (which labeled as
"anti-American" anyone who criticized U.S. policies around the world,
tactics actually first developed by the Stalinists all around the world
who called "anti-socialist" anyone who criticized the brutal
dictatorship of the Soviet Union), is now being used not on someone
criticizing Israel, but on someone who dares criticize an American
organization that has played a leading role in defending the most
right-wing policies of the State of Israel. As former Israel Minister of
Justice Yossi Beilin points out in an interview in Tikkun magazine,
AIPAC does not defend and support the Israeli government's policies when
Israel tried to move toward peace under Yitzhak Rabin - in fact, he
reports, they actually sought to undermine Rabin's peace efforts.
http://tikkun.org
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