Orthodoxy: Re Egypt, House Foreign Affairs Committee will hear two Israel lobbyists and one other rightwinger, no Arab-Americans

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Written by Philip Weiss Philip Weiss
Published: 09 February 2011 09 February 2011
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This morning and tomorrow the House committee on Foreign Affairs is holding hearings on Egypt. The committee is now chaired by Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, an Israel hardliner. But the ranking minority member, Howard Berman, presumably had a hand in this too. The two Israel lobbyists are Robert Satloff of the thinktank started by AIPAC and Elliott Abrams (a Jewish nationalist who has written that Jews must stand apart from any society they are in except Israel). The other rightwinger is Craner, who works for a Republican institute and I'm told has the usual Israel fervor.

Bear in mind that this morning on National Public Radio (yes the liberal media) Elliott Abrams was given a lot of air time, to support the Egyptian democracy movement because it would make Egyptian support for Israel stronger. I am still waiting for an NPR report that questions whether Israel is a democracy and questions whether the so-called peace process that Egypt has been a party to for 30 years has done anything to ameliorate Palestinian rightslessness. It has not.  

The announcement:

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday and Thursday of this week will host a two-part full committee hearing entitled “Recent Developments in Egypt and Lebanon: Implications for U.S. Policy and Allies in the Broader Middle East.”

Part I When: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:00 A.M. (Immediately following the 10:00 A.M. Organizational Meeting)

Where: 2170 Rayburn House Office Building Who: The Honorable Elliott Abrams Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Council on Foreign Relations The Honorable Lorne Craner President International Republican Institute (Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor) Dr. Robert Satloff Executive Director The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Part II * When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:30AM Where: 2170 Rayburn House Office Building Who: The Honorable James B Steinberg Deputy Secretary U.S. Department of State

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