In 2018, The Washington Post ran an article titled “The dark roots of AIPAC, ‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’". The article was subtitled: "The group was formed to spin positive PR after Israeli atrocities”. Written by Professor Doug Rossinow, it focused on the formation of AIPAC (America Israel Political Action Committee), originally called AZPAC (America Zionist Political Action Committee). The article focuses on the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in the village of Qibya in 1953:
“In the fall of 1953, Eisenhower briefly suspended the delivery of U.S. aid to Israel after it violated the terms of a U.N.-brokered armistice agreement with Syria by venturing into a demilitarized zone to try to divert the waters of the Jordan River…. But on Oct. 15, 1953, all hell broke loose. News spread that a special Israeli army unit had struck into the Jordanian-occupied West Bank and committed a massacre in the Palestinian village of Qibya, killing more than 60 civilians indiscriminately in retaliation for the murder of a Jewish woman and her two children in Israel on the night of Oct. 12....The strike reflected Israeli policy. Ever since the end of the 1948 war, Palestinians had frequently crossed the so-called “Green Line” into Israel. Most had been driven or had fled from their homes in what was now Israel and simply wished to return. But some committed violence against Israelis. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had fixed on a policy of reprisals — military assaults, intentionally disproportionate, on local Arab populations — as a response to any such attacks. After the Oct. 12 killings, Ben-Gurion and top colleagues chose nearby Qibya to suffer retribution.”
AZPAC (later AIPAC) was formed to deal with the American public outrage after the Qibya massacre.
As Ecclesiastes tells us, there is nothing new under the sun.
Imagine WaPo running this article today. Imagine Biden suspending military aid to Israel.
thanks Jack for posting info on that article and the quote which I just now got to read online WP archive!! cannot imagine that rag publishing such today...nor NYT or TIME...but giving new life to that article i've reposted it on social media thanks to you! cheers
In 2018, The Washington Post ran an article titled “The dark roots of AIPAC, ‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’". The article was subtitled: "The group was formed to spin positive PR after Israeli atrocities”. Written by Professor Doug Rossinow, it focused on the formation of AIPAC (America Israel Political Action Committee), originally called AZPAC (America Zionist Political Action Committee). The article focuses on the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in the village of Qibya in 1953:
“In the fall of 1953, Eisenhower briefly suspended the delivery of U.S. aid to Israel after it violated the terms of a U.N.-brokered armistice agreement with Syria by venturing into a demilitarized zone to try to divert the waters of the Jordan River…. But on Oct. 15, 1953, all hell broke loose. News spread that a special Israeli army unit had struck into the Jordanian-occupied West Bank and committed a massacre in the Palestinian village of Qibya, killing more than 60 civilians indiscriminately in retaliation for the murder of a Jewish woman and her two children in Israel on the night of Oct. 12....The strike reflected Israeli policy. Ever since the end of the 1948 war, Palestinians had frequently crossed the so-called “Green Line” into Israel. Most had been driven or had fled from their homes in what was now Israel and simply wished to return. But some committed violence against Israelis. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion had fixed on a policy of reprisals — military assaults, intentionally disproportionate, on local Arab populations — as a response to any such attacks. After the Oct. 12 killings, Ben-Gurion and top colleagues chose nearby Qibya to suffer retribution.”
AZPAC (later AIPAC) was formed to deal with the American public outrage after the Qibya massacre.
As Ecclesiastes tells us, there is nothing new under the sun.
Imagine WaPo running this article today. Imagine Biden suspending military aid to Israel.
(The full article is available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/03/06/the-dark-roots-of-aipac-americas-pro-israel-lobby/. If not already a WaPo subscriber—who in their right mind is?—you will need to give them an email address, which is easy to spoof.)
thanks Jack for posting info on that article and the quote which I just now got to read online WP archive!! cannot imagine that rag publishing such today...nor NYT or TIME...but giving new life to that article i've reposted it on social media thanks to you! cheers
Imagine WaPo running this article today. Imagine Biden suspending military aid to Israel.
It's so funny you said that - the second I read In 2018 - - I thought to myself boy have times changed!