In 2003 CNI called for the Senate to reject Daniel Pipes as a trustee of the United States Institute of Peace , charging he had " gone out of his way to say insulting things to Arabs , Palestinians , Muslim Americans , Black Muslims , Muslims and Islam . " In 2004 it opined on the probable transfer of power from Yasser Arafat to his successor . In 2005 a representative criticized a World Bank ’s proposed plan to give Palestinians money to enhance check points , noting that if those checkpoints were in the occupied territories it was against international law . After the U.S. Congress gave Israel a vote of confidence during its 2006 bombing of Lebanon , Eugene Bird said , " This is the usual problem with any resolution that talks about Israel — there are a lot of closet naysayer ( in Congress ) , but they do n't want to be a target of the lobby of Israel . " In October 2006 CNI published a piece on the negative effect of Christian Zionists on U.S. foreign policy , and held a forum on the topic featuring Reverend Bob Edgar of the National Council of Churches . In April 2006 , after professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt produced their controversial paper entitled " The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy " , CNI 's Paul Findley told National Public Radio he was pleased about the paper and said " I think I can pose as a foremost expert on the lobby for Israel , because I was the target the last three years I was in Congress . " In the first days of the 2008 – 2009 Gaza War , CNI issued a statement comparing the attacks to the 1960 Sharpeville massacre where the South African apartheid regime killed 69 protesters , leading eventually to sanctions against the regime . In August 2009 Paul Findley was quoted by the '' Christian Science Monitor '' as saying that President Obama 's demands Israel stop the settlements had made him a target of the Israel lobby in the United States
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
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