Abramoff used DeLay to fund anti-intifada militia - "rabid Zionist."

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_269.shtml


It shouldn't come as much of a shock that Jack Abramoff, the infamous Washington, DC, super-lobbyist who has been accused of ripping off millions from his Native American clients, is a rabid Zionist.

Abramoff, in the late 1990s, set up a pro-Israel charity front called the Capital Athletic Foundation. Sounds jovial enough. "The pitch . . . was hard to resist," Michael Isikoff reported for Newsweek last summer, "a good way to get access on Capitol Hill, he told his clients . . . was to contribute to worthy charity . . . was supposed to provide sports programs and teach 'leadership skills' to city youth. Donating to it also had a side benefit, Abramoff told his clients: it was a favored cause of Rep. Tom DeLay."

So Abramoff dangled a carrot in front of his clients, advising them to donate to his philanthropic venture. Why not, it was for a good cause. Plus, he boasted, it would buy them access to Rep. Tom DeLay. It may indeed have bought them access, but what Abramoff's customers didn't realize was that a large portion of their money would never be spent on gearing up inner city kids to shoot some b-ball -- rather, their dollars were shipped overseas to help arm Israeli settlers in the occupied territories.

More than $140,000 of the foundation's funds, reports Newsweek, was used to purchase sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, camouflage suits, thermal imagers and other materiel which Abramoff's foundation called "security" equipment.
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the article ends with:

It is hard to stomach the irony. If there is any group in the US that can empathize with the occupation of the Palestinian people -- it's the Native Americans. But here Abramoff's clients were, unknowingly donating tens of thousands of dollars so that Israeli settlers in the West Bank could continue to occupy defenseless Palestinians. You can bet that DeLay and Abramoff snickered all the way to the (West) bank.


dirty punks, leaving their dirty stain on america

[stepnw1f]

1. Absolutely Sickening

Lock em up.

[rucky]

2. How is that NOT terrorism?

wow. a scumbag with a cause.

[ewagner]

3. It looks like

Delay was smart enough to keep from leaving his fingerprints on this. The only way Delay will be caught up in this is if Abramoff or one of his close aides "flips" for the prosecutors.

[Uben]

5. Scanlon has already flipped

He already has a deal and has agreed to cooperate with the prosecutor. Since he is the one who "knows where all the bodies are buried", why would they need anyone else? Let the party begin!

[ewagner]

6. I'm wondering

if Abramoff was/is smart enough or devious enough to "compartmentalize" his operations so that not Scanlon or anybody else had the whole picture?

[niallmac]

4. Well, the bright side is that the spotlight has finally reached him.n/t

[koopie57]

7. he could have at least

armed some of our soliders fighting In Iraq and Afghanistan.

[raysr]

8. 90% of everything we

see can be traced to Isreal, the war, the corruption the neo-cons, it's all there. It's so ironic that a bunch of racists like the freeps are pro-Isreal. The propagandists like Rush have done their work well.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Not much difference between Lush and your typical propagandist

in (fill in the blank) nation considered to be a threat to just about everyone. There is no difference in my mind at all.

[Coastie for Truth]

14. How do you trace it to Israel

The Rapturists (Referred to by Karl Marx as "religion is the opiate of the working class" --- a "Rapture" - "Book of Revelations" Theology is the opiate of the working class) are not pro-Israel.

Israel is a means to an end. Period.

They must "ingather" all of the Jews to the "historic Land of Israel" for a mass conversion and slaughter in order for the Second Coming of Christ.

They are not pro-Israel --- they are pro-Second Coming.

[Ian David]

10. On the other hand his buddies also associate with Muslim terrorists..

for the purposes of of bashing the gays.



Jewish World Review Dec. 2, 2003 / 7 Kislev, 5764
Queer allies
By Evan Gahr
http://www.jewishworldreview.com

The little-noticed alliance between gay marriage opponents and alleged terrorist sympathizers


The Massachusetts Supreme Court decision to legalize homosexual marriage in the Bay state re-ignited the culture wars. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, perhaps the preeminent liberal Jewish organization in Washington, DC, applauded the ruling. Religious-minded conservatives, however, were horrified. They are determined to stop the gay rights movement in its tracks. At what price?

JewishWorldReview.com has discovered that prominent religious conservatives — Jews, Catholics and Evangelical Christians — are allied with a radical Islamic group to stop gay marriage. Pushing a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to heterosexuals, they work with the Islamic Society of North America. What is ISNA? According to terrorism expert Steve Emerson, ISNA:

* has held fundraisers for terrorists (e.g., after Hamas leader Musa Marzuk was arrested, it raised money for his defense, claiming he was innocent and not connected to terrorism)

* has condemned US seizure of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad assets in the United States after 9/11

* has consistently sponsored speakers at their conferences that defend Islamic terrorists. Recently, a leader denied in an interview with an NBC affiliate that ISNA took any Saudi money but that was a brazen lie as evidenced by a recording of an ISNA conference in which it was revealed that money came from Saudi Arabia.

"ISNA," says Emerson, "is a radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation."

More:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1203/marriage_terrorists.php3

[Ian David]

11. Jews tiring of being tricked by Christian right's fake "Pro-Israel" B.S.

See related thread:

The ADL stops giving evangelicals a free ride for "supporting" Israel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x105448

[Ian David]

12. Comparing Palestinians to Native Americans is an insult to the latter. n/t

[Coastie for Truth]

13. K Street Lobbyist Whores

--and that demeans the good name of sexual industry workers to call lobbyists whores.---

1. Abramoff is a whore.

2. He is an "Orthodox Jew" like Chuck Colson and Bush are "Born Again Christians." For Abramoff to call himself as "Orthodox Jew" or a "Zionist" is a desecration of God's Name -- and a violation of the Third Commandment ("Thou Shalt not take the name of the Lord Thy God in Vain").

[zoe2]

15. If there's any group in the US...

that can empathize with genocide, it's Jews, which is why Abramoff's rip-off of Native Americans is all the more disgusting. There is a streak of anti-Semitism in certain Native American writings, and I'm sure Abramoff only jacks the problem. One guy - a Sioux "elder" named Ross Ehanamani - actually blames Custer on Jewish bankers and peddles his theories at the Crazy Horse memorial in South Dakota.

[Coastie for Truth]

17. Abramoff's rip-off of the Native Americans

is in league with "Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Christian" Ralph Reed, and is as a GOP "bagman."

:rant: :sarcasm:
If people persist in identifying Jack Abramoff with Jews - it is only fair to identify his partner in this rip-off, Ralph Reed, with Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Christians.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi zoe2!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Colorado Blue]

16. Frankly I find the tone of this article racist and offensive.

Abramoff is a CRIMINAL.

Let that suffice as an epithet.

One reason Israel was established, was to provide a place where Jews could be criminals and not also be damned for being Jews.

There are several other points I could raise about certain comments in this thread but frankly I feel quite ill already.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

19. Online Journal has a big problem with Israel's existence.

They always have. It's one of the many reasons I don't read their site.

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