US Aid to Israel and AIPAC Influence
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Amerika Serikat memberi Israel 14 miliar dolar.
Israel mengambil 100 juta dolar dari jumlah itu dan memberikannya kepada AIPAC.
Aduh. Lalu AIPAC memberikan 9 juta dolar kembali kepada Donald Trump.
Paham cara kerjanya? Jadi mereka hanya menyuap kita dengan uang kita sendiri.
Inilah yang seharusnya ditunjukkan.
Pengaruh AIPAC di Capitol Hill ini sudah melegenda.
Hampir setiap anggota kongres dan senator, eh, ya, menyampaikan doa- doanya kepada lobi AIPAC.
Tidak, mereka telah melakukan pekerjaan luar biasa dalam merusak proses demokrasi Amerika.
George Ball adalah orang nomor dua di Departemen Luar Negeri di bawah Presiden Kennedy dan Johnson, dan dia tak pernah segan mengkritik lobi pro-Israel.
Inilah lobi paling efektif di Amerika Serikat saat ini, dan saya akan menempatkannya di atas National Rifle Association.
Kuberi mereka nilai A atas usaha mereka.
Apa salahnya memilih kandidat yang didukung berdasarkan cara dia memberikan suara?
Bukankah itu cara Amerika? Menurut saya, itu, itu karikatur dari cara Amerika.
Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, AIPAC dan PAC pro- Israel telah membantu mengalahkan, antara lain, Anggota Kongres Paul Findley dan Pete McCloskey, Senator Harrison Schmitt dari New Mexico, Walter Huddleston dari Kentucky,
dan Chuck Percy dari Illinois. Seperti Senator Chafee, Percy juga mendukung penjualan AWACS kepada Saudi itu.
Akhirnya saya sampai pada tahap ketika, sebagai ketua Komite Hubungan Luar Negeri, saya melihat kebijakan luar negeri kita benar- benar berbalik arah, dengan dunia Muslim, 800 juta orang, memandang Amerika Serikat dengan curiga.
Apa yang sedang terjadi? Siapa yang menjalankan kebijakan luar negeri?
Apa Israel dan perdana menteri bisa punya kekuasaan lebih besar daripada seluruh Senat Amerika Serikat atau presiden Amerika Serikat?
Menurut saya, mereka sama sekali bukan sekutu.
Kita tidak punya aliansi dengan mereka. Maksud saya, mereka bersikeras menuntut kebebasan bertindak sepenuhnya, dan mereka bersikeras agar, eh…
kita menyubsidi kebebasan bertindak mereka sepenuhnya.
Jumlah subsidi itu sungguh luar biasa dan menjadi bukti besarnya pengaruh AIPAC di Capitol Hill.
Secara keseluruhan, Israel menerima lebih dari 3 miliar dolar setahun dalam bentuk bantuan dari Amerika Serikat.
Terkadang, pemungutan suara itu berlangsung tanpa satu pun debat, padahal nilainya miliaran dolar.
Anda tak bisa membelanjakan uang sebanyak itu di negara ini tanpa memicu debat besar-besaran, tetapi pemerintah asing menerima uang ini tanpa debat, karena mereka memang terorganisasi untuk mendapatkannya.
Apakah ada kemungkinan terjadi reaksi keras jika Israel dianggap terlalu berkuasa di kalangan pemerintahan di sini, di Washington?
Kemungkinan itu selalu ada. Jika, jika orang mulai percaya bahwa Israel kecil yang menentukan keputusan, saya yakin orang Amerika akan membencinya.
Mereka, eh, tak akan mau ada negara mana pun, besar atau kecil, yang menentukan keputusan di Kongres Amerika Serikat.
Apakah itu akal sehat atau sikap pengecut dari para senator yang tak mau membicarakan hal ini?
Oh, menurut saya para senator akan mengatakan itu hanya sikap praktis.
Pekan lalu, tiga organisasi Yahudi besar menentang AIPAC.
Para pemimpin Komite Yahudi Amerika, Kongres Yahudi Amerika, dan Liga Anti-Pencemaran Nama Baik B'nai B'rith menyatakan dalam surat kepada presiden AIPAC bahwa AIPAC tidak berbicara atas nama konsensus komunitas Yahudi yang terorganisasi.
Dan dalam jajak pendapat CBS News terhadap 1.530 orang dewasa Amerika dua minggu lalu, kami bertanya, “Menurut Anda, untuk menjaga keamanan Israel, apakah AS harus memberi Israel lebih banyak bantuan daripada yang diberikannya kepada negara lain mana pun?”
13% menjawab ya, 72% menjawab tidak, 15% mengatakan tidak tahu.
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The United States gives Israel $14 billion.
Israel takes $100 million of that and gives that to AIPAC.
Ugh. AIPAC then gives $9 million back to Donald Trump.
See how this works? So they're just bribing us with our own money.
That's what this is supposed to be pointing out.
The cloud of AIPAC here on Capitol Hill is legendary.
Practically every congressman and senator, uh, is, says his prayers to the AIPAC lobby.
No, they've done an enormous job of, of corrupting the American democratic process.
George Ball was number two in the State Department under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and he has never been reluctant to criticize the pro-Israel lobbies.
It's the most effective lobby in the United States today, and I would put that ahead of the National Rifle Association.
I give them an A for effort. What's wrong with picking a candidate to support on the basis of the way that he has voted?
Isn't that the American way? I think it's, it's an, a, a caricature of the American way.
In recent years, AIPAC and the pro-Israel PACs have helped defeat, among others, Congressman Paul Findley and Pete McCloskey, Senators Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico, Walter Huddleston of Kentucky, and Chuck Percy of Illinois.
Like Senator Chafee, Percy, too, came out in favor of that sale of AWACS to the Saudis.
I finally reached the stage where, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, I saw our foreign policy totally turned around, with a Muslim world, 800 million people, looking askance at the United States of America.
What is happening? Who is running the foreign policy?
Uh, can Israel and the prime minister have more power than the entire Senate of the United States or the president of the United States?
I don't believe it's an ally at all. We have no alliance with them.
I mean, they insist on total freedom of action, and they insist on, on, uh, our subsidizing their total freedom of action.
The amount of that subsidy is remarkable and a testament to AIPAC's clout on Capitol Hill.
All together, Israel gets more than $3 billion a year in assistance from the United States.
Sometimes the, the votes go through without a single debate, involving billions of dollars. You couldn't spend that kind of money in this country without a huge debate going on, but a foreign government gets this money without debate because simply it's, it's just organized to get it.
Is there a possibility that, of a backlash if Israel is perceived as too powerful in the halls of government here in Washington?
There's always this possibility. If, if people begin to believe that little Israel is calling the shots, then I'm certain Americans would resent that.
Uh, they won't want any country, big or small, to be calling the shots in the Congress of the United States.
Is it common sense or cowardice on the part of senators who just don't want to talk about this?
Oh, I would say the senators would say it's just being practical.
This past week, three major Jewish organizations took issue with AIPAC.
The leaders of the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith asserted in a letter to the president of AIPAC that AIPAC does not speak for the consensus of the organized Jewish community.
And in a CBS News poll of 1,530 American adults two weeks ago, we asked, "Do you think that in order to preserve the security of Israel, the US should give Israel more aid than it gives any other country?"
13% said yes, 72% said no, 15% said they don't know.
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