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After almost 40 years; now FORMER AIPAC staffer! My views are MY views! Likes/Reposts are NOT Endorsements! Focus on History, US-Israel, Zionism, AIPAC & Antisemitism. See michaellewisonline.substack.com
Interesting @aipac.org press release on yesterday's various primary results. Regarding the Michigan Senate race, AIPAC write: "....Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November." x.com/AIPAC/status...
#OnThisDay - AUGUST 5....2015: Pres #Obama vs Netanyahu and #AIPAC... 1973: Palestinian Terrorist Attack at Athens Airport...1990: President George H. W. Bush - Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait "will not stand"...1974: #Watergate "Smoking Gun" released... open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
From Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posting on X and these 4 photos on Facebook: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu met today [Wednesday] at Blair House in Washington with leaders of AIPAC..." #Israel #Netanyahu #AIPAC @aipac.org
#OnThisDay JULY 27....1955: Bulgaria shoots down El-Al Airliner. No survivors...1976: Israel's US Ambassador - Israel’s Strength is in Unity Between Israel and World Jewry...1980: Shah of Iran Dies open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
#OnThisDay - JULY 23....1968: First/Only Successful El-Al Hijacking...1952: Egyptian Officers overthrow King Farouk...1944: First Concentration Camp (Majdanek) Liberated by Soviet forces....1984: Growth New Jewish Agenda...2015: #AIPAC Vs JCPOA Fly-in preview open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
"ON THIS DAY" JULY 21...2024: President Biden Withdraws from Presidential Race...2014: AIPAC Deeply disappointed in US extending Iran Talks...1973: Lillehammer - Mossad's mistaken killing in Norway open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
This year’s Conference/Gala of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in DC, Sept 12-13 (Rosh Hashanah!) Keynote speakers: DNC Congressional candidates Dr. Adam Hamawy & Darializa Ávila Chevalier. Other CAIR Conference speakers include among others, Cenk Uygur, Linda Sarsour & Ryan Grim
#OnThisDay - JULY 18 1290: King Edward’s “Edict of Expulsion” of Jews from England (for 350+ years) 1925: Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” published 1994: AMIA Bombing 1947: British forces board “Exodus 1947” 2020: AIPAC Statement RIP John Lewis Links substack.com/@michaellewi...
"ON THIS DAY"- JULY 9... 2004: ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israel's Barrier/Wall ...2014: "Protective Edge" Day II open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
"ON THIS DAY" - JULY 8...2014: Start of 7-Week Long Operation "Protective Edge" Vs Hamas as Iron Dome proved itself open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
Flashback 45 years... On This Day in 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the US Supreme Court youtu.be/xmY6EvDnVsg?...
"...We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision..." Amazing (and seemingly-justified) statement from Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) re FIFA's decision re Folarin Balogun #WorldCup Red Card reversal www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
#OnThisDay (JULY 5) in 1950: The Israeli Knesset passes The "LAW OF RETURN." Every Jew in the World has the right to come to Israel and be an Israeli citizen. (There have been a couple of subsequent amendments and the issue of "Who Is A Jew." #Israel #LawOfReturn #Jews
Flashback 3 Years... #OnThisDay in 2023: A (strong) joint statement from the IDF, Shin Bet and Israeli police re Settler Violence against innocent Palestinians in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria. I don’t believe there has been any recent similar joint statement!
“ON THIS DAY” - JUNE 19.. “Juneteenth” 1953: The Rosenbergs - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed 1981: The UN Security Council unanimously condemns Israel for its destruction of Iraq’s Nuclear Reactor at Osirac. 1964 Civil Rights Act finally passed the US Senate after Fillibuster.
70 Years ago (May 1956) Bernard Lewis in @latimes.com "American Views of Israel "...we may add one other [motivation] -those who primary desire is not so much to help the Arabs as to hurt the Jews…I do not wish to suggest that all anti-Zionists or anti-Israelis are antisemitic - ...many however are"
Statement from @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social "J Street Responds to US and Iran Reaching an Agreement to End War" jstreet.org/press-releas...
#OnThisDay ("Flag Day") in 1985: Terrorists from Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847 from Cairo and took the plane to Beirut.The following day, #Hezbollah murdered one of the passengers, US Navy diver, Robert Stethem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Fli... - Flashback ABC News www.youtube.com/watch?v=adBn...
Yes I posted earlier! With the final paragraph… bsky.app/profile/wash...
“ON THIS DAY” - June 12-14 open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
#OnThisDay JUNE 7 1981: Osiraq. World condemned www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/w... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX-i... @nytimes.com Editorial www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/o... 1967 “Six Day War.” Israel takes Old City, Suez Canal pdfs.jta.org/1967/1967-06... 2020: #AIPAC George Floyd x.com/AIPAC/status...
#OnThisDay June 6 - 1944: D-Day...1967: Day II of "Six Day War" (Audio: Abba Eban's Address to the UN)....1982: Start of the Lebanon War "Peace for Galilee"... +2024: Leaving #AIPAC ... Links at substack.com/@michaellewi...
Found it “interesting” that J Street have taken this public position. And that they doing so via the Quincy Institute’s Nick Cleveland-Stout. @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social position on Section 224 in the draft NDAA "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative" x.com/nick_clevela...
#OnThisDay JUNE 3: 1967: President Lyndon Johnson's famed warning to Israel "Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone..." 1982: Shooting of Israeli Ambassador to UK, Shlomo Argov....1989: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini Dies...1964: New PLO Plans open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
#OnThisDay June 1 Links to articles at substack.com/@michaellewi... 2001: The Dolphinarium Disco Bombing 1964 - Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol Meeting with President Lyndon Johnson at the White House 1962: Just before/after Midnight May 31/June 1: Adolf Eichmann hanged in Jerusalem
#OnThisDay in 1972: The heinous slaughter at Lod (now Ben-Gurion) Airport of 26 people - including 17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico. The attack was by 3 members of the Japanese Red Army on behalf of the PFLP (3 months later came the “Munich Massacre”) www.nytimes.com/1972/05/31/a... #Israel
My weekly Washington Views: A Weekly Focus on “Critics, Detractors and Other Views” for week ending May 29, 2026. Offering a pro-Israel - but not completely-uncritical - perspective from a former long-time AIPAC staffer open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
BDS in New York....The Park Slope Food Co-op Boycott: The Vote www.foodcoop.com/2027_05_27_a...