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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

12/30/21 Grant F. Smith on Israel’s Evolving Strategy to Sway American Politics

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8902 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Scott is joined by Grant F. Smith to talk about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) new strategy for reaching U.S. politicians. AIPAC has largely operated as a lobbying group on behalf of the State of Israel. But, as Smith explains, they are now working to set up a network of Political Action Committees. This will give them more freedom to fund candidates they like, and support the opponents of candidates they don’t. Scott and Smith give possible reasons for the evolving methods. Discussed on the show: “AIPAC forming political action committees to tighten grip on U.S. elections” (Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs) “Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear weapons” (The Guardian) Grant F. Smith is the author of a number of books including Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, Divert!, and most recently The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board. He is director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton Show.

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I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute,

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editorial director of anti-war.com.

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Author of the book, Pools Arran,

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time to end the war in Afghanistan,

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and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on

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terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on

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Hey guys, on the line I got Grant F. Smith,

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he is the founder and the director

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of the Institute for Research Middle Eastern Policy.

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EIRMEP, I RMEP, EIRMEP.

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dot org.

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And what he does is he researches and publishes, well,hand journalism and documents, especially Freedom of

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Information Act documents on the controversial legal and illegal activities

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of the Israel Lobby in the United States of America and damn as he legal and or Big Lockheed, Israel, and also the Israel lobby enters state government,

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which is so much fun.

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That was one of the things I wanted to ask you about too.

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You got recent developments there.

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Oh yeah.

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