Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
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Buncombe, Andrew
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/israeli-intervention-in-us-elections-overwhelms-anything-russia-has-done-cl
Date Written: 2019-05-31
Publisher: Canadian Dimension
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX23738
Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
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In March 2015, at the invitation of then Republican House Speaker John Boehner, and assisted by Israel's Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the joint houses of Congress about the yet to be signed Iran nuclear deal. He did so without formally informing the White House, something said to have infuriated Barack Obama, whose administration would the following month join a seven-party agreement to limit Iran's alleged nuclear weapons ambitions....
The power of the pro-Israel lobby has long been one of the contentious, and disputed, issues in Washington. In 2007, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, published The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, which described the lobby as "loose coalition of individuals and organisations who actively work to steer US foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction"....
Mr Chomsky said Mr Putin had never made such a speech to Congress, which political observers said was unique in the way a foreign leader so acidly attacked the policy of the US government.
