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01/12/2006:

"Abramoff and the Israeli Connection"

... There is one aspect of all this, however, that is especially interesting to foreign policy aficionados, and that is Abramoff's connections to the far right wing of Israel's Likud Party, the "settler" movement, and, here in America, Israel's amen corner in the conservative movement.

According to a report by Michael Isikoff in Newsweek, Abramoff was soliciting funds on behalf of a shady organization known as the Capital Athletic Foundation (CAF), which was supposed to be funding sports programs and imparting "leadership skills" to inner-city youth. Instead, CAF funneled millions scarfed up from Indian tribes not only into Abramoff's own pockets and the pockets of his cronies, but also to ultra-right-wing Israeli "settlers." Isikoff reports:
antiwar.com

Jack Abramoff, 'Super Zionist'