Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Embattled Aipac Lobbyists Take Divergent Paths

From the Forward, here
"... Rosen, the group’s former policy director, continues to take a front-row seat at major foreign policy events and has positioned himself as a continuing presence in the ongoing debates about the Middle East. Weissman, on the other hand, has put a distance between himself and his former identity as a pre-eminent pro-Israel lobbyist.
Weissman has told friends that, free of the constraints posed by his employment by Aipac, he now sees himself as returning to his roots as a peace activist.
“I decided not to suppress my political views any longer,” Weissman, age 55, told a friend, according to sources close to the situation..."

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