The Israel Lobby - a Taboo

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We all know that in the United States, discussing US-Israeli relations, as a subject for debate or investigation is to immediately expose oneself to accusations of anti-Semitism. Two of America’s leading political scientists have now broken this taboo... They pulled the veil back on “The Israel Lobby”, its influence on Washington and its effect on Middle East politics and on the World. — via Sabbah's Blog

“ Thanks to the Lobby, the United States has become the de facto enabler of Israeli expansion in the Occupied Territories, making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians. This situation undercuts Washington’s efforts to promote democracy abroad and makes it look hypocritical when it presses other states to respect human rights. US efforts to limit nuclear proliferation appear equally hypocritical given its willingness to accept Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which only encourages Iran and others to seek a similar capability.” → The Israel Lobby
by John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt, Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Not surprisingly, American Jewish leaders often consult Israeli officials, to make sure that their actions advance Israeli goals. As one activist from a major Jewish organisation wrote, ‘it is routine for us to say: “This is our policy on a certain issue, but we must check what the Israelis think.” We as a community do it all the time.’...
Jewish Americans have set up an impressive array of organisations to influence American foreign policy, of which AIPAC is the most powerful and best known. Fortune magazine ranked AIPAC second behind the American Association of Retired People, but ahead of the AFL-CIO and the National Rifle Association... → The Israel Lobby

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[ Ben-Gurion's Quote ]    

"If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country . . . We come from Israel, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?" — David Ben-Gurion told Nahum Goldmann, the president of the World Jewish Congress

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