AIPAC Lobby in American Presidential Race: Obama moves from Left to Right, McCain from Right To Far Right

About AIPAC : “As America’s leading pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC works with both Democratic and Republican political leaders to enact public policy that strengthens the vital U.S.-Israel relationship. With the support of its members nationwide, AIPAC has worked with Congress and the Executive Branch on numerous critical initiatives.”

Obama Speech at AIPAC Conference:

Israel is "our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy," Obama said, assuring his audience that "we must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs." Such advanced multi-billion dollar systems he asserted, would help Israel "deter missile attacks from as far as Tehran and as close as Gaza." 

As if the starved, besieged and traumatized population of Gaza are about to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. Obama offered not a single word of criticism of Israel, of its relentless settlement and wall construction, of the closures that make life unlivable for millions of Palestinians.

Earlier on, he spokes “I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.”

The concerns only begin with Obama's long association with his America and Israel bashing pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama counts a disturbing number of vocally harsh Israel-critics as high-profile advisors on his campaign staff. (Just last month, Robert Malley, one of Obama's informal foreign policy advisors, resigned from the campaign after acknowledging repeatedly meeting with Hamas.)

McCain's AIPAC Speech:

The cause of Israel, and of our common security, has always depended on men and women of courage, and I've been lucky enough to know quite a few of them. I think often of one in particular, the late Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. I got to know Senator Jackson when I was the Navy liaison to the Senate. In 1979, I traveled with him to Israel, where I knew he was considered a hero. But I had no idea just how admired he was until we landed in Tel Aviv, to find a crowd of seven or eight hundred Israelis calling out his name, waving signs that read "God Bless you, Scoop" and "Senator Jackson, thank you." Scoop Jackson had the special respect of the Jewish people, the kind of respect accorded to brave and faithful friends. He was and remains the model of what an American statesman should be.

The people of Israel reserve a special respect for courage, because so much courage has been required of them. In the record of history, sheer survival in the face of Israel's many trials would have been impressive enough. But Israel has achieved much more than that these past sixty years. Israel has endured, and thrived, and her people have built a nation that is an inspiration to free nations everywhere.

This is what Carter have said:

“When I’m the president of the United States,” he intoned, the voice still strong, “My country will never again torture a prisoner. When I’m the president of the United States, we will never again attack another country unless our security is directly threatened. When I’m the president of the United States, human rights will be the foundation of our foreign policy.” He went on in that vein, with ringing declarations on global warming, a promise to honour international agreements and to bring “security and peace to Israel and all its neighbours and treat them all on an equal basis.” The audience thundered its applause, signalling that this was the American speech they yearned to hear. Carter insisted that a new president would not need a hundred days to change America’s image in the world, just the “ten minutes” required to say those words."