Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plusIsrael Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons

[Seth Ackerman]

Nathan Newman wrote:

> And yet a large majority of those "rapid" pro-Israel Congresspeople voted
to
> make Bonior the second-ranked Dem in the House.  AIPAC was obviously
asleep
> that day, and every two years after that when Bonior was reelected.

It's amazing how you can seize on a footnote to a footnote and declare that
it's the big story. Can you tell me what practical effect Rep. David
Bonior's election to the post of House minority whip has exerted on the
course of US policy in the Middle East? Bill Clinton appointed an AIPAC
lobbyist as special envoy to the Middle East and another AIPAC lobbyist as
NSC director of the Israel-Palestinian negotiations. These things had a
measurable effect. But while David Bonior may be a nice guy, his name will
never even appear in the index of a book about the history of US Mideast
policy.

Seth