It’s all in the family, Archie. AIPAC, Embassy, Harman, the whole gang.

Mr. Silverstein’s link is to an article that is apparently no longer available on Yahoo News. This very intersting article is still available at – http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?view=article&catid=4:news-articles&id=24:americans-open-to-force-to-rein-in-iran-on-nukes&option=com_content&Itemid=5

*MY COMMENT: Unfortunately, both of my U.S. Senators are Republicans. One of them, Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), has been on the ‘Board of Advisors’ for the right-wing ‘Israel Project’ since shortly after he was first elected to the Senate in 2002 (defeating the incumbent Democrat, Max Cleland).

*SEE “Focus Grouping War with Iran” by Laura Rozen, 11/19/07

*EXCERPT: …Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, the founder and president of the Israel Project, contacted Mother Jones and said that her group had commissioned the focus group and that it was designed by Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm. The Israel Project is a nonprofit group that supports Israel and conducts extensive polling on American public attitudes toward Israel and the Middle East. Its board of advisers includes 15 Democratic and Republican members of the House and the Senate, plus actor Ron Silver.

Mizrahi says that her group and Freedom’s Watch share a common interest in “thwarting the threat of Islamic extremism” and in “dealing with the threat of Iran.” But Freedom’s Watch “in no way is directing our work, and it’s not funding our work.” She pointed out that the Israel Project is not “involved with Iraq,” a major concern of Freedom’s Watch. But the two outfits, she said, “shared information” produced by this focus group. …[snip]

…”Of all the focus groups I’ve ever been to,” Sonnenmark wrote in a subsequent email to a group of fellow volunteers for the 2006 Senate campaign of Jim Webb, “I’ve never seen a moderator who was so persistent in manipulating and leading the participants.” (Webb is lead author of a Senate letter warning President Bush not to attack Iran without congressional approval; see here and here.)) The gist of the event was “anti-Iranian,” says Sonnenmark…

….Sonnenmark left the session wondering if foreign policy hawks would soon be pushing publicly for military action against Iran using language that had been tested on her. But, she says, “It is not going to be so easy this time around.”

*ENTIRE ROSEN ARTICLE – http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/11/focus-grouping-war-iran

Here is one: http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2007/371/472/2007-371472882-03e0e060-9.pdf .

The Israel Project seems to be run by the same Newton Jew clique that pays for the David Project and similar sorts of activities.

Newton Jew is an “affectionate term” for local Boston area extremist Zionists even when they don’t live in Newton.

It is mostly used by Jews.

My blog entry discussing Newton Jews is Money Jews, Brain Jews, Politics.

BTW, did you see the latest rant by David Harris (AJC) about Ahmadinejad’s Durban II speech? Pure hypocrisy.