Abramoff's reach to Israel

University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole reminds us that one of Jack Abramoff's activities was to sucker American Indian tribes into giving him money which he, in turn, used to fund private Israeli militia who regularly harass Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

As Juan Cole puts it:

Now here's the thing. If a Palestinian-American had diverted $140,000 from a Muslim charity to "security equipment" and "sniper lessons" for Palestinians on the West Bank, that individual would be in Gitmo so fast that the sonic boom would rattle your windows.

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But here's a prediction. None of the Jewish extremists, some of them violent, who are invading the West Bank and making the lives of the local Palestinians miserable will ever be branded "terrorists" by the US Government, and Abramoff's foray into providing sniper lessons will be quietly buried.

Terror isn't terror and aggression is not aggression when it has lobbyists in Congress who can provide luxury vacations and illegal campaign funding.