{"id":2703,"date":"2007-11-21T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2007-11-21T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T22:00:40","slug":"why-aipac-took-over-brookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Why AIPAC Took Over Brookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\"><strong>by Grant F. Smith \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2007\/11\/why-aipac-took-over-brookings\/\">November 21st, 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is an excerpt from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0976443775?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dissidentvoic-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0976443775\">Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal<\/a><\/em><span id=\"more-1159\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Martin Indyk, an Australian and naturalized US citizen, is the former deputy director of research at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Indyk helped establish the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/templateI01.php\">Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/a> (WINEP) in 1984 with the support of AIPAC board member and activist Barbi Weinberg. Weinberg \u201chad for over a decade privately wrestled with the idea of creating a foreign policy center.\u201d<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2007\/11\/why-aipac-took-over-brookings\/#footnote_0_1159\" id=\"identifier_0_1159\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Mark Milstein, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 1991.\">1<\/a><\/sup> After the establishment of WINEP, Indyk stated that he was still dissatisfied and wished to establish an institution capable of escaping AIPAC\u2019s reputation as a \u201cstrongly biased organization.\u201d<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2007\/11\/why-aipac-took-over-brookings\/#footnote_0_1159\" id=\"identifier_1_1159\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Mark Milstein, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 1991.\">1<\/a><\/sup> Indyk would later go on to found the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. The center was initially funded by a $13 million grant from Israeli dual citizen and television magnate Haim Saban,<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2007\/11\/why-aipac-took-over-brookings\/#footnote_1_1159\" id=\"identifier_2_1159\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Grant F. Smith, \u201cIsrael Lobby Initiates Hispanic Strategy.\u201d\">2<\/a><\/sup> famously quoted by the <em>New York Times<\/em> as saying, \u201cI\u2019m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.\u201d<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2007\/11\/why-aipac-took-over-brookings\/#footnote_2_1159\" id=\"identifier_3_1159\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, September 5, 2004.\">3<\/a><\/sup> He also funded and established the Saban Institute for the Study of the American Political System within the University of Tel Aviv.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2007\/11\/why-aipac-took-over-brookings\/#footnote_3_1159\" id=\"identifier_4_1159\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Phyllis Berman, Forbes Magazine, December 8, 2006.\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2007\/11\/why-aipac-took-over-brookings\/\">Read More<\/a>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grant F. Smith \/ November 21st, 2007 The following is an excerpt from Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal Martin Indyk, an Australian and naturalized US citizen, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-HB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}