Various US Groups Protest AIPAC Annual Conference on May 23, 2005

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Various US Groups Protest AIPAC Annual Conference on May 23, 2005

May 15, 2005



PROTEST!!
AIPAC ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MONDAY, MAY 23RD
starting 4:00 PM/ MAIN RALLY 6:00-8:00 PM

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From: [e-mail]
May 12, 2005
To Interested Groups:

The following call was initiated by the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) and finalized by representatives of several groups, six of whom already have signed on. We hope you will join us in endorsing this very important event. We will keep you updated on further developments. Email us to endorse, to attend a Sunday May 15 evening planning meeting on Capitol Hill or if you have questions or comments. <[e-mail]> Please feel free to circulate this call.

CALL FOR MAY 23RD PROTEST OF AIPAC ANNUAL CONFERENCE

A coalition of organizations is calling for a peaceful demonstration on Monday, May 23 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the 2005 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference being held May 22 to 24th at the DC Convention Center. We will gather on Massachusetts Avenue at 7th Street NW.

We do so to protest Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, its building of a separation wall through the West Bank and its current expansion of settlements, which will cut off an additional 250,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem from the rest of Palestine and implement a system of de facto apartheid in the occupied territories. We protest any appearance by Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, who for over 50 years has been involved in a series of war crimes, including the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla.




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1. You do realize that the demonstrators will be branded "anti-semitic",

don't you? Few folks outside of DU even know what AIPAC represents.

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0410isirannext.php

[norml]

3. They will also be called "Friends of the Terrorists". I don't care.

I'm concerned with the truth, not with the insults misrepresentations and lies of the evil movement that calls itself conservative.

[norml]

4. A small part of the greater AIPAC espionage story

A small part of the greater AIPAC espionage story
Xymphora

Sunday, May 15, 2005


From the New York Times <1>(I'm waiting with bated breath for the New York Times story on the Blair cabinet memo that proves that Bush lied about the war in Iraq, a story to be written of course by Judith Miller):

"At one point last summer, Mr. Franklin had agreed to help the government with the investigation before ending his cooperation when it became evident that prosecutors wanted to charge him with a crime. During that time, he made several telephone calls to possible subjects in the case, including one to Mr. Weissman, according to people who have been officially briefed on the case. The call was surreptitiously monitored and recorded by F.B.I. agents.

In the conversation with Mr. Weissman, Mr. Franklin said he had learned that Iran was seeking to encourage or engage in attacks against Israelis in northern Iraq, people who have been officially briefed on the case said. They said that Mr. Weissman told Mr. Rosen of the conversation and that the two men are believed to have passed the information to an Israeli official who was an intelligence officer. It is not clear whether the information was based on actual information or was fabricated to lure the two Aipac officials into incriminating themselves."


This is pro-Israel spin, recycling the old Jerusalem Post story <2> that all Franklin did was pass on information that was concocted as part of a sting operation by FBI anti-Semites to entrap AIPAC. The last quoted line of the New York Times story is just a paraphrase of the line in the Jerusalem Post ("It is unclear whether the 'classified' information was real or bogus."). The story doesn't make much sense on the face of it. Considering the relationship between Israel and the United States, it is impossible to believe that the United States wouldn't inform Israel that Iranian agents were going to attack Israelis in Kurdistan. If that didn't happen, you can be certain that Douglas Feith would have picked up the hotline in his office connected directly to Sharon's office and passed the information on immediately. The AIPAC dudes were smart enough to have seen right through this. The only good that came out of the entrapment story is that it forced the Israelis to admit they were operating in Kurdistan (another scoop <3> by Seymour Hersh, and a story that was immediately and vociferously denied by Israel).



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http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m11766&l=i&size=1&hd=0

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2. Jewish groups support Bolton as UN diplomat

Jewish groups support Bolton as UN diplomat
By: MARILYN H. KARFELD Senior Staff Reporter





John Bolton, UN ambassador nominee, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2003. PHOTO/AVI OHAYON/GPO


Major Jewish organizations are strongly supporting the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a fact that has flown under the public radar.

Thus far, the discussion in the Jewish community as well as nationally has centered on Bolton's alleged bullying behavior toward his subordinates.

During confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senators heard testimony that Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, repeatedly intimidated or tried to fire those intelligence analysts who disagreed with him. Other critics complained about his anti-UN statements and less-than-diplomatic negotiations on international issues.

However, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), B'nai B'rith International (BBI), the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) all back Bolton's nomination.




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http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/05/13/news/local/bcover0513.txt

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5. Various US Groups Protest AIPAC Annual Conference on May 23, 2005

Opinion Editorials, May 2005, To see today's opinion articles, click here: www.aljazeerah.info




Various US Groups Protest AIPAC Annual Conference on May 23, 2005

May 15, 2005



PROTEST!!
AIPAC ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MONDAY, MAY 23RD
starting 4:00 PM/ MAIN RALLY 6:00-8:00 PM

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


From: [e-mail]
May 12, 2005
To Interested Groups:

The following call was initiated by the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) and finalized by representatives of several groups, six of whom already have signed on. We hope you will join us in endorsing this very important event. We will keep you updated on further developments. Email us to endorse, to attend a Sunday May 15 evening planning meeting on Capitol Hill or if you have questions or comments. <[e-mail]> Please feel free to circulate this call.

CALL FOR MAY 23RD PROTEST OF AIPAC ANNUAL CONFERENCE

A coalition of organizations is calling for a peaceful demonstration on Monday, May 23 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the 2005 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference being held May 22 to 24th at the DC Convention Center. We will gather on Massachusetts Avenue at 7th Street NW.

We do so to protest Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, its building of a separation wall through the West Bank and its current expansion of settlements, which will cut off an additional 250,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem from the rest of Palestine and implement a system of de facto apartheid in the occupied territories. We protest any appearance by Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, who for over 50 years has been involved in a series of war crimes, including the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla.

We also protest AIPAC’s role in supporting Ariel Sharon and other Israeli officials’ threats to take military actions against Iran’s nuclear energy facilities and their efforts to involve the United States in such attacks. Two AIPAC officials, recently fired after months of vigorous public support by AIPAC, have been implicated in press reports as having received "highly classified" information on Iran from Defense Department analyst Larry Franklin, who has been arrested in the case, and possibly passing the information on to the state of Israel.




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