of two U.S. citizens whose mother gave birth to him in Jerusalem. Those parents sued the government some years ago to force the State Department to list his country of birth as Israel on his passport, even though the United States has never acknowledged full Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. The Congress, however, in 2002 passed a law specifically declaring that Americans born in Jerusalem should be able to claim Israel as their country of birth, and George W. Bush signing it, while declaring in a signing statement that U. S. policy towards Jerusalem "remains unchanged." The law was one of many tributes to the power of AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby. It also represented a terrible trend in Congressional interference in foreign policy.

Not only AIPAC, but other lobbiesworking for or against governments such as those in Taiwan and Cuba, have managed to get Congress to pass laws reflecting their views. The Taiwan Relations Act essentially demanded that the U.S. government maintain Taiwan as an independent nation, even though President Nixon had affirmed that it was part of China. Several laws have been passed to try to make any reconcilization Castro impossible, as well. Congress actually passed a law in the 1990s committing the United States to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and AIPAC is about to make an all-out effort to stop the nuclear deal with Iran by getting the Congress to maintain sanctions against that country. In this case, five and a half Supreme Court Justices (the half being Clarence Thomas, who wrote a