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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Newly released FBI files show that in 1948 Americans were secretly shipping explosives and warplanes to Israel against US law, and the man who founded AIPAC registering as an Israeli foreign agent Here's why that matters in plain terms... In 1947 the US government banned arms shipments to Palestine. People shipped them anyway. The FBI arrested four men when mislabeled explosives turned up on a Jersey City pier, and another group smuggled 30 aircraft out of Florida and got fined for it; one of those men later built Israel's aircraft industry and got a pardon from Bill Clinton. The files also describe the ADL, the group that says it fights antisemitism, getting hold of private Arab League papers in New York through a reporter. The biggest detail is a name: Isaiah Kenen. In 1951 he told the Justice Department his first client would be the Israeli government and agreed to register as a foreign agent, which is the legal requirement for anyone working for a foreign country inside the US. Kenen then founded AIPAC, the most powerful pro-Israel group in Washington, which has never registered that way. It says it represents Americans, not Israel. So why does a 75-year-old archive land now? Because AIPAC changed its money rules last week to make its donations harder to trace, because the ADL's own chief brags about 40 analysts watching Americans who protest the war, and because Congress is voting right now on a bill to share more US intelligence with Israel. The 1951 government made Kenen sign a form saying who he worked for. Why hasn't the government asked the question since? Source: MilitaryCom / Writer: Daniel