MJ Rosenberg
"I have always believed that, at some point, the Israeli prime minister
and his lobby would lose their grip on U.S. Middle East policy. At least
I’ve believed that since 1982 when Tom Dine, AIPAC’s most successful
executive director, explained how it would happen.
It was during my four year stint at AIPAC
that I asked Dine if a president of the United States could take a
position opposed by the lobby, in a case where U.S. national security
interests were clearly at stake, and prevail.
Dine responded that although he hoped
that day wouldn’t come, he did not think a president could make Israel
do anything it didn’t want to do given the power of AIPAC and “our
friends in Congress.” In other words, as long as politicians need
AIPAC-directed campaign funds, it wouldn’t happen"
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