After the massacre in the refugee camp at Jenin, the US congress voted to support Israel's offensive in Palestine. Cynthia McKinney, GA, and Earl Hilliard, AL, among 21 Reps. voting NO, lost their seats when the Israeli lobby funded their opponents
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Alexander Cockburn The Israeli lobby and the fate of Palestine
On May 2, 2002, barely two weeks after what has become widely described in the international press as a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp at Jenin, the US congress took an extraordinary vote.
It was a vote by the House of Representatives and by the Senate supporting Israel's offensive into the West Bank, and a cover for their actions in Jenin.
Only two Senators and 21 Representatives voted against the resolution. Cynthia McKinney from Georgia and Earl Hilliard from Alabama were among those 21 and before long both of them lost their seats in Congress.
Alexander Cockburn is an investigative journalist and author. He was born and raised in Ireland and has lived and worked in the US since 1973.
He writes a bi-weekly column for The Nation called "Beat the Devil," and a syndicated newspaper column, which has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and others.
Cockburn is also the coeditor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch. He spoke on the Israeli lobby and the fate of Palestine in San Francisco on September 29, 2002.
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