Soros Considers Forming AIPAC `alternative'

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Soros Considers Forming AIPAC `alternative'

Ron Kampeas
JTA Wire Service

A top staffer for billionaire philanthropist George Soros met recently with senior representatives of the dovish pro-Israel community to discuss setting up an alternative to the AmericanIsrael Public Affairs Committee, JTA has learned.

Morton Halperin, a director of Soros' Open Society Institute and a veteran of senior positions in theClinton, Nixon and Johnson administrations, confirmed to JTA that the meeting took place late last month. He would not add details.

“It was a private meeting, it was an effort to get this off the ground,'' said Halperin, who directs the institute's U.S. advocacy.

The meeting focused on how best to press Congress and the Bush administration to back greater U.S. engagement toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how to better represent American Jews who don't buy into AIPAC's often hawkish policies.

http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/5996.stm

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1. This is good

To think aipac represents all of Israel is like thinking pnac represents all of the US.

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2. Exactly... AIPAC Makes Israel Look Extreme

So doesn't it's current leadership, not to mention it's rabid supporters who crop up here on DU.

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3. Did you see Soros on Faux?

He really handled himself well.

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4. Outstanding news