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Former DNC member got in hot water by forwarding Code Pink email blasting AIPAC

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Earlier today we did a post on the resignation from the Democratic National Committee in Palm Beach County, FL, of Evelyn Garcia after leaked emails showed her expressing criticism of Israel.

Well the emails have been published, and they are honest, straightforward and demonstrate a gumption missing from Garcia’s later submission to party officials. You can see that the conversation about our “special” friend in the Middle East is just bursting at the seams. Garcia is now running for statewide office.

The original email from Garcia that reportedly caught the ire of a congressional aide who spilled the beans came a year ago, when she forwarded one of Code Pink’s announcements for its Move Over AIPAC event in Washington, “Combat Blackmail of Obama by US Congress!”

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A conversation quickly ensued. Note the aide’s reaction (his or her name is blacked out):

“This was sent by Code Pink? I’m appalled..AIPAC is always right!….[Obama] will need the Jewish vote to win and he’s treading on thin ice right now.”

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Other emails speak for themselves:

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“I am against the illegal occupation of Palestine…”

Thank you Evelyn.

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June 1 2011

We printed the last exchange here.

The very last sentence in the series of emails from Garcia asks: “If your friends don’t tell you what they think who will?”

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When, oh when will Americans have the guts to say “I am against Israel”. In this account, as in so many other cases, a critic must always profess praise for Israel with the exception of the difficulty of the Palestinians.

But the little difficulty is the basis on which the country was founded – dispossession – that continues to this day.

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RE: “Earlier today we did a post on the resignation from the
Democratic National Committee in Palm Beach County, FL, of Evelyn Garcia after leaked emails showed her expressing criticism of Israel.” ~ Annie Robbins

SEE: “Miami mayor: ‘Settlements’ is wrong word to use”, by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, 11/20/11

(excerpts) Israel should be describing Jewish communities beyond the Green Line as developments, not settlements, Carlos Gimenez, the recently elected mayor of Miami-Dade County, said on Friday. Gimenez, on a six-day visit to Israel with four other mayors of large US cities as part of Project Interchange, an educational institute of the American Jewish Committee, said the reality of the settlements as opposed to the stereotype that the word invokes was what surprised him most during his first visit to the country. . .
“We spoke to someone who lived in a settlement. Just a normal person. Basically just someone who wants to live in a suburb. That’s it. . .”
. . .“Settlement is the wrong word to use. If you want to describe it to Americans, it is really a development.
. . . With some 2.5 million people living in Miami-Dade country, Gimenez, 57, elected in June, is mayor of the eighth most populous county in the US. It is also the metropolitan area with one of USAia’s largest Jewish populations, one of the reasons he said he was keen on visiting Israel. Asked if he expected to be criticized for visiting Israel on a trip sponsored by a US Jewish organization, Gimenez said he could have come under criticism had the trip been funded by Miami-Dade taxpayers, but “taxpayer money didn’t fund this, I was invited by the AJC.” . . .
. . . With Hispanics, the fastest growing demographic in the US, Israel and various Jewish organizations are keen on making inroads into a community not seen as having a strong, emotional pro-Israel reflex. The exception, however, are Cuban-Americans.
Gimenez, who pointed out that there were many differences and nuances within the US Hispanic community, characterized Cuban- Americans as “more conservative in their outlook and very pro-Israel.”
“Cuban-Americans identify very closely with Israel,” he said. “We were basically without a country, and know what it is like to be persecuted for your beliefs.”
Among the other strong pro-Israel Cuban-American politicians are Florida Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who like Gimenez was born in Havana and immigrated to the US as a child; and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, and a Republican whose name is often mentioned as a possible 2012 vice-presidential candidate. . .

SOURCE – http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/if-jiminez-had-wanted-to-see-wild-eyed-settlers-with-guns-he-could-have-seen-them/

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This is great:

As for meeting with ____, thanks for letting me know he doesn’t have much time for taxpayers and voters. I’ll be happy to locate some of his constituents and find out how they feel about that. I am not looking for elected representatives who share my point of view. I am seeking to convey another point of view to so-called elected representatives. They need to hear all points of view, especially when they pretend to be blind to policies that are against the interests of all Americans.

The scheduler for congressman blank lives in Ft. Lauderdale. The real question is why does congressman blank have a racist aide who writes:

The people Obama pandered to were the Arabs, Evelyn

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One more thing. What Palestinians? As yet there is no Palestine. Not officially

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Shouldn’t be hard to find out who the aide of either the senator or congressman was…he or she represents S. Fla and has an office in Fort Lauderdale.

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Great post annie!

On a related note, the venerable Phil Giraldi has a great article about how the lobby has turned America into Israel.

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/07/04/america-adopts-the-israel-paradigm/

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