© AP U.S. President Barack Obama arriving at the AIPAC Conference dais for his keynote address on May 22, 2011.
Pro-Israel lobby says 250 activists will meet with their senators and representatives in Washington in a bid to win support Congressional support for military action in Syria.The influential pro-Israel
American Israel Public Affairs Committee will deploy hundreds of activists next week to win support in Congress for military action in
Syria, amid an intense White House effort to convince wavering U.S. lawmakers to vote for limited strikes.
"We plan a major lobbying effort with about 250 activists in Washington to meet with their senators and representatives," an AIPAC source said on Saturday.
Congressional aides said they expected the meetings and calls on Tuesday, as President
Barack Obama and officials from his administration make their case for missile strikes over the apparent use of
chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
The vote on action in Syria is a significant political test for Obama and a major push by AIPAC, considered one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, could provide a boost.
The U.S. Senate is due to vote on a resolution to authorize the use of military force as early as Wednesday. Leaders of the House of Representatives have not yet said when they would vote beyond saying consideration of an authorization is "possible" sometime this week.
Obama has asked Congress to approve strikes against Assad's government in response to a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21 that killed more than 1,400 Syrians.
But many Republicans and several of Obama's fellow Democrats have not been enthused about the prospect, partly because war-weary Americans strongly oppose getting involved in another Middle Eastern conflict.
Pro-Israel groups had largely kept a low profile on Syria as the Obama administration sought to build its case for limited strikes after last month's attack on rebel-held areas outside Damascus.
Supporters of the groups and government sources acknowledged they had made it known that they supported U.S. action, concerned about instability in neighboring Syria and what message inaction might send to Assad's ally, Iran.
But they had generally wanted the debate to focus on U.S. national security rather than how a decision to attack Syria might help Israel, a reflection of their sensitivity to being seen as rooting for the United States to go to war.
Source: Reuters
The decision makers ARE NOT talking about the inhumane way and state of our beloved veterans fighting for those insane pillaging zionists and war mongers in the Council of Foreign Relations. VETERAN SUICIDES ARE HAVE INCREASED NOT DECREASED! The '07 depression has NOT recovered except for these CEOs who got paid more in 2012 than at any other time in history--since 1913!
So my recommendation is this: NO U.S. SOLDIERS SHOULD FIGHT THIS WAR. All AIPAC sons and daughters should enlist along with the transnational corps children--bankers too. The 2 percent benefits only so their sons and daughters should fight these wars.
Enough is enough. Who are these people? Have they turned into demons, turning their backs on veterans as they jump to their deaths, hang themselves or end their precious lives some other horrific way? Who are these people like Obama, Biden, Kerry--lying, lying and saying the opposite of their election persona, Dr. Jekells and Mr. Hydes.
France HAS to stop hiding behind our uniforms and take charge! ("Oh, we won't go without the U.S." Spineless war criminals, just like Napoleon charging into Egypt, pillaging and stealing Egyptian treasure and destroying irreplaceable statues. NO AMERICANS GO TO WAR--ONLY AIPAC MEMBERS' QUALIFIED SONS AND DAUGHTERS; ALL QUALIFIED SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE FORTUNE 500, TRANSNATIONAL CEO SONS AND DAUGHTERS OR ANYONE WHO IN IN THE TOP 2 PERCENT.
Let's go back to the 17th ,18th century when the royal families sons were expected to serve and lead the troops. It was considered honorable!