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Understanding Israel Palestine
This show is inspired by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.
In Part II of our series on the Israel Lobby, Grant F. Smith, the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, a non-profit that does public interest research, discusses the American-Israel Public Affairs Committe (AIPAC), one of the most powerful lobbies on Capitaol Hill. Smith has written several books on AIPAC. which was started with $6 million (a sum equal to $60 million in today’s dollars) in foreign funding, largely from Israel, but eluded U.S. efforts to register it as a foreign agent. Smith says AIPAC today is treated as a domestic lobbying organization but continues to act as a foreign agent of Israel, employing campaign contributions, covert pressure campaigns and espionage in collusion with Israel to advance policies that serve the state of Israel but not the United States or the public good.
