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In reply to the discussion: HOW INFLUENTIAL IS AIPAC? LESS THAN BEER SELLERS, PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS, AND TOYOTA [View all]
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)conservative, and militantly aggressive. The more conservative and/or religious the group, the more committed to maintaining a Jewish state in the holy lands. The return of Jews to the promised land is foretold in the New Testament of the Bible as a precursor to Jesus's Second Coming and God's Kingdom.
In this era, the Christian right is a huge power in the Republican Party and out of it, and their people have been appointed and elected to hundreds of positions in the federal government alone.
I don't know how AIPAC, which also promotes shamelessly conservative policies, stacks up to just the Southern Baptist Convention, for instance, but they're not even in the same league of influence. Notably, though, the big Christian/Republican blocs' commitment to support for Israel isn't evaluated in terms of money and very, very rarely discussed. (Must be somewhere.)
However, for comparison, donations from conservative zionist Jews Sheldon and Miriam Adelson have been intensively covered, though (they're Jewish and their intentions declared), but where these two alone put their money to work for militant, conservative zionism is very indicative. Hint: Not small-potatoes AIPAC.
AIPAC’s (ENTIRE) lobbying and campaign contributions have been much less than the huge influx of cash into US politics from mega-donors Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam... (ALONE. Again, other Republicans' and church groups' contributions not even theorized about.)
They were the largest donors in the 2018 midterm elections with $123 million, all of that to Republican political action committees that then funneled millions to incumbents in tough races. Adelson-controlled entities gave $55 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, for example, which spent $126 million running ads against Democrats such as Wisconsin’s Randy”IronStache” Bryche.
https://qz.com/1547435/the-numbers-behind-ilhan-omars-aipac-tweet/
As I said on another thread, Israel could shoot Americans down in the streets of Tel Aviv and, like Trump, "get away with" it. Nothing would cause our Christian/Republican powers to withdraw support from Israel, certainly not the anti-Muslim activities of the Israeli conservatives that our conservatives' money and influence help keep in power.
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