למי קראת סוכן זר? – גרורות קריאה מהפוסט של דני אילון
ינואר 6, 2011סגן שר החוץ דני אילון מגונן באתר שלו על ההחלטה להקמת וועידת חקריה על מקורות המימון של NGO'S בארץ. הוא מנסה להתמם ומציג את הוועידה כשוות ערך ל America’s Foreign Agents Registration Act שדורש מסוכנויות של ממשלות זרות או אירגונים פוליטים זרים לחשוף מידע על פעילותם (בקצרה כמובן). שני דברים בעניין:
א. הבעיה היא המילים "סוכן זר", אני ממש לא משוכנע שארגוני השמאל עונים על ההגדרה הזאתי.
ב. כשישראל הכירה את America’s Foreign Agents Registration Act ב-1962-1963 וגם ממש לא מזמן ב-2004.
השאלה שלי לדני היא, האם הוא מתכוון למה שהתכוונו האמריקאים כאשר הם הציגו לישראל את החוק?
WASHINGTON — As the Department of Justice intensifies its investigation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Jewish communal leaders fear that the goal of the probe is to compel the powerful lobbying organization to register as a “foreign agent” representing the government of another country.
Widely regarded as one of the most influential organizations on Capitol Hill, Aipac is registered with Congress as a lobbying group. Under American law, registering as a foreign agent would require Aipac to provide significantly more detailed information about its aims and activities to the government — thereby robbing the group of a key weapon: the ability to operate behind the scenes.
Such a change would severely weaken the organization’s influence and fuel charges of dual loyalties against Jewish groups, communal observers said.
“I think that from the start, this is what [the investigation] was all about,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “It doesn’t take very much to start an investigation — all it needs is a legitimate complaint by somebody that there is a violation of the law.”
Many in Washington who are hostile to Israel and the Jewish community would love to discredit Aipac, Foxman said. “So I see this as a broad fishnet operation,” he added, “which may possibly result in something relating to foreign agent registry, rather than spying.”
The concerns come just weeks after the FBI raided Aipac’s office and four of the group’s top officials were subpoenaed by a grand jury. For months, the federal probe was believed to center on allegations that Aipac officials might have illegally passed classified documents on to Israel, which they received from a Pentagon employee, Larry Franklin. In recent weeks, media reports have surfaced suggesting that the FBI used Franklin to entrap officials at the pro-Israel lobby.
Aipac officials have vehemently denied any wrongdoing. Now some supporters are suggesting that the real goal of investigators is to clip Aipac’s wings by forcing it to operate under the strict limits applied to agents of foreign governments.
Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/4064/#ixzz1AJgJM9Jw
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