Convicted U.S. congressman James Traficant said Israel has a "powerful
stranglehold on the American government." Speaking in an interview
with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren, the former nine-term Ohio
Democratic congressman said that Israel is "controlling much of our
foreign policy" and "influencing much of our domestic policy." .. .
"We're conducting the expansionist policy of Israel and everybody's
afraid to say it," Traficant said. "They control much of the media,
they control much of the commerce of the country, and they control
powerfully both bodies of the Congress. They own the Congress."