Suddenly they were all over the place, arriving not as singles but in battalions. Many, like Maryland's 5th District Rep. Steny Hoyer had been to Israel nearly a dozen times; career stalwarts once more showing fealty to Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine while lamely telling their constituents that they were on a legitimate 'fact finding mission.' For many, their real purpose was to signal their President that there must be no change in the US policy of coddling Israel's increasingly Apartheid regime.

Among the nearly four dozen members of Congress were some of the most Islamophobic and anti-Arab ever to be elected by American voters.

House Majority leader  Steny Hoyer, leading a delegation of 29 Democratic Congressmen, appeared to read from a cue card as he explained in Jerusalem that he had misgivings about Obama's insistence on stopping colonial expansions (euphemistically called by the Israel lobby 'settlements').

Hoyer downplayed Obama's demand to stop the expansions and informed the White House from Jerusalem that that the issue "should be a subject of negotiations".

Hoyer refused comment on Kadema leader Tsizni Linvi's 'leak' of part of the last years CIA study that Hoyer helped AIPAC bury on Capitol Hill. Appearing to quote from the now withdrawn 'study' Livni declared in a former Palestinian village, now renamed Tirat Hacarmel: "I see the despair and desperation of many Israelis. Hundreds of thousands see what is happening and arrange for a foreign passport, send their children to study abroad and even buy a house overseas."

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