Israel Lobby and NAFTA?

Successive...administrations have used AIPAC’s power on the Hill, not only for the sake of Israel aid, but for Egypt’s aid, for Jordon’s aid, for aid to the Palestinians, the Palestinian authority, the people are for the whole foreign aid budget would not pass without AIPAC’s influence.

The whole free trade agreement process was started with the US- Israel free trade agreement. Why? Because that was the only way the ...., now we’re talking about the Regan administration could get it through Congress was with AIPAC’s help.

And once they established the free trade agreement with Israel it became possible to get free trade agreements and that was the precursor to NAFTA and so on.

-Martin Indyk

An interesting and a highly charged debate on the influence of Israel Lobby hosted by the London Review of Books in NY, (here's the transcript-very highly recommended)

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