1) many provisions benefitting Jewish interests are inserted into US legislation & procedural guidelines. Holocaust survivors (any Jews alive in Europe 1945) exempt from paying taxes on reparations from Germany-not included in calculation of benefits like Medicaid
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2) January 2014 Obama names Aviva Sufian first Special Envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor Services to assure "Holocaust survivors should age in place and avoid the institutional care that health providers and government services generally recommend for the infirm.”
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3) special benefits include expensive in-home taxpayer paid care. Israel large trade surplus w US, access to US market & bids on govt contracts, privilege normally afforded only to NATO allies. US pays 20%+ of Israeli mil spending, uses US tax$$ to buy from own defense industry
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4) in last year flood of Jewish legislation w no interest for other Americans--much of legislation denies citizens and residents Constitutional rights to free speech & freedom of association. omnibus spending bill that was signed March 23rd: additional money for Israel “defense”
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5) money to Palestinian Authority & UN to help refugees in Middle East cut dramatically. 24 states are now requiring statements pledging not to boycott Israel from those citizens and organizations that receive government funding or even seek local government employment.
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6) Two bills in Congress seek to define as anti-Semitism any criticism of Israel. December 12th 2017 Anti-Semitism Awareness Act approved by the House of Representatives with 402 affirmative votes & only two libertarian-leaning congressmen voting “no.”
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Cú Chulainn @Cukullen8) Israel Anti-Boycott Act currently in Congress sets new standard for deference to Israel in national government-criminalize any U.S. citizen “engaged in interstate or foreign commerce” who supports boycott of Israel or “requesting the furnishing of information” regarding itShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
8) Grant Smith of IRMEP reports: former Los Alamos National Lab nuclear policy specialist James Doyle was fired for article in International Institute for Strategic Studies journal stating that “Nuclear weapons did not deter…Iraq from attacking Israel during the 1991 Gulf War.”
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9) Doyle’s crime was to break “legislative rule” that no federal government employee can confirm Israel has nuclear weapons: Symington Amendment Sect 101 US Arms Export Control Act 1976 bans foreign aid to any country w nuclear weapons not signing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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