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Thursday, December 3, 2009

The Israel Lobby Celebrates Espionage in New York

antiwar.com - Grant Smith

The recent sting operation against former NASA scientist Stewart Nozette involved an undercover FBI employee posing as Mossad agent... Ironically, this very week, the Israel lobby is celebrating in New York the biggest clandestine operation ever conducted against US industries and workers.

...Most Americans, if aware, might consider the 1984 trade document theft grounds for criminal prosecution. But not members of the Israel lobby, which on December 3, 2009 are hosting Dan Halpern, now vice chairman of the Israel-American Chamber of Commerce, in New York. Ironically Halpern will discuss "Government to Government" dialogue.

Neither Halpern nor AIPAC have ever been held accountable for turning purloined businesses trade secrets compiled by the US Trade Representative and International Trade Commission against American industry and workers groups. Instead, AIPAC and its former officials now trumpet in brochures and presentations how the unfavorable US-Israel trade deal was the "wedge" that opened up Congress to multilateral managed trade deals such as NAFTA.

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