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Its gonna be real fun when more people figure out that the reasons AIPAC isn't required to register as a foreign lobbying group go all the way back to 'the whole Bay of Pigs thing', as Nixon put it.
... Israel kickstarted its nuclear program by stealing fissile material from the US.
And then the investigation into that kinda just... stopped happening, petered out for some reason, and then for the longest time we just had this weird sort of standard where... everyone was 'pretty sure' Israel had nukes, but 'couldn't 100% be certain'.
Sorta like how the Epstein investigations had been... you know, going on for like two decades, and we didn't really hear too much about it untill everyone involved fucked up unimaginably badly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
And then of course there's the USS Liberty Incident which recently got Ben Shapiro to be extremely defensive about, treating the whole thing as definitevly decided to be a genuine accident, when you have a long history of lots of directly invovled and highly informed relevant people believing precisely the opposite...
You know, like... some kind of half century + long cover up, or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident