Howard Berman likes to joke that he became a Zionist before he became a Democrat...It shocked me, and I support Israel against its barbarous neighbors.
Today, as the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he's in a position to do more than wave flags and cheer. He has the helm of one of the most powerful bodies shaping US foreign policy, and he says his decision to run for Congress and focus on international relations while in office was intimately connected to his Jewish background and ties to the Jewish state.
"Israel's security and the US-Israeli relationship is for me an issue that shapes my whole agenda [in] Congress, and guides it," he told The Jerusalem Post in a recent interview in his Capitol Hill office.
On the other hand, you have all the people in government on the Saudi payroll (outright, via business relationships, or with the expectation of payback when they retire).
Not to mention other ethnic lobbies.
As Jack Risko is wont to say, how can such a country survive?
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[1] Berman seems a real piece of work:
...Berman, a lawyer by training, has served on the Judiciary Committee and headed a subcommittee dealing with intellectual property rights.Yes, this is the Berman often mentioned in connection with predatory copyright and intellectual property legislation.
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