ANTI-SEMITISM FRACAS: The Democrats find a way to tie themselves in knots, ver 342 By J Brooks Spector parkhurst1
In several social media postings, Omar made it clear that in her view, Jewish influence on American Middle East policy “was all about the Benjamins”; and then, to layer it on a bit further, that American Jews were demonstrating a dual allegiance to Israel and America.
Further, the specific point of that reference by her to the “Benjamins”, effectively, was that “The Jewish lobby”, and most specifically AIPAC , exercised far too much power and influence over American foreign policy, making politicians virtually their captive on the Middle East.
However, in today’s American political universe, it is crucial to understand that a key locus of influence on American-Middle East policy resides with the 35 million or so voters who are evangelical/fundamentalist/born-again Christians now closely interwoven into the Republican Party.
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