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America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register
the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2008/0811063.html
By Grant F. Smith, Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy

Reviewed by Delinda C. Hanley

The declassification on June 10, 2008 of long-secret Department of
Justice (DOJ) documents is the springboard for Grant F. Smith’s latest
book revealing the inner workings of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC). This ground-breaking study spotlights the
Israel lobby’s key architect, Isaiah L. Kenen, and uncovers how he and
subsequent Israel-firsters morphed from being openly registered as
foreign agents, who should have remained employees of the Israeli
Embassy’s Office of Information, into  “American” domestic lobbyists
for Israel, a far more benign, if dishonest, nomenclature.

Smith’s very readable book reproduces and analyzes the highly
deceptive Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings Kenen made
while he was still an employee of the Israeli government in New York.
It proceeds on to the American Zionist Council (ACZ), the precursor
organization where AIPAC gestated. Referencing internal DOJ records,
the book painstakingly documents previously undisclosed attempts by
the Justice Department and dissenting Jewish groups, including the
American Council for Judaism, to close down Kenen’s Israeli-financed
political propaganda operation—or to at least make it openly register
and disclose its activities under FARA.

Thanks to Kenen’s efforts, AIPAC’s Zionist financial backers succeeded
in laundering  money, purchasing arms, smuggling stolen U.S. military
hardware, and launching Israel’s nuclear and military weapons
industries. They paid for some of it with tax-exempt “charitable”
donations, though a far larger percentage came from U.S.
tax-dollars—without ever having to come out of the shadows.

Coming 20 years after Kenen’s death, Smith’s book is a powerful
reminder to readers about the effectiveness of stealth public
relations and the importance of framing stories for the mainstream
media. (Kenen also launched the Near East Report, AIPAC’s biweekly
flagship publication, which is still a vital public relations tool for
Israel.) This close examination of AIPAC’s birth and struggle for
power is a valuable lesson about nascent foreign interest lobbies,
prosecutorial discretion, and the subversion of the rule of law by
political elites.

America’s Defense Line reads like a fascinating spy thriller or “who
done it” that is hard to put down—until, that is, one remembers that
AIPAC and its supporters are still at it—and, usually, getting away
with it. (Stay tuned for the espionage trial of former AIPAC officials
Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman.)

Readers of Smith’s book, perhaps alongside Jeff Gates’ Guilt By
Association, will have all the history and information necessary to
loosen AIPAC’s grip upon our nation once and for all—but only if we
all insist that the rule of law once again become the law of the land.


Delinda C. Hanley is news editor of the Washington Report.
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