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2025-01-13 00:36:52 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
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This post heavily underplays AIPAC's well-known and long-criticized influence over Congress and general U.S. politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVIze8BR4vQ https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ZA-GdeQP4 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC#Controversy_and_criticism AIPAC itself has boasted about this many times: https://x.com/search?q=(from%3Aaipac)%20proudly%20helped&src=typed_query JFK's speech wasn't pro-Israel, and this is reported to have angered PM Levi Eshkol: https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/from-dallas-to-gaza
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