AIPAC’s and Israel’s influence is falling in Congress, two opposing letters show just how much – Mondoweiss

There is an infamous story about AIPAC that has been illustrative for decades. In late 1992, during the lame duck period as George H.W. Bush was readying to cede the Oval Office to President-elect Bill Clinton, AIPAC’s President David Steiner resigned after being caught on tape boasting about having pressured Bush into giving more aid to Israel and that AIPAC had many people “inside” the incoming Clinton administration.

In those days, AIPAC was much more committed to…