That AIPAC is friendlier with Republicans than Democrats is hardly shocking news. They are basically in bed with the neocons and a large number of Christianist Republicans. But evenso ... you've got to be kidding me:
The aid to Israel, all $2.4 billion of it, is not in question. A formula without doubt will be found, but what happened next is what really speaks volumes. Nothing. Silence from AIPAC. The GOP explained its position. AIPAC chose not to score the vote, nor to in any way publicize any issue it might have with opposition to a women’s right to choose being a higher principle than aid to Israel for the Republican Congressional minority.
How on Earth could AIPAC possibly hope to justify not scoring the Foreign Aid vote? Well, they can't really, so they won't bother, which is, as Levy notes, another big sign that they are at times more interested in maintaining their alliance with the Republican Party than in securing aid to Israel.
Posted by armand at June 28, 2007 09:44 AM | TrackBack | Posted to International AffairsThey'll get the aid anyway. All they have to do is put it in a different bill that doesn't have something unrelated to Israel that pisses off the republicans.
Posted by: Ray at June 28, 2007 08:35 PM | PERMALINK