AIPAC -- The Israeli Lobby

The United States supports Israel in a variety of ways. We give them all sorts of military and economic support, roughly 3 billion dollars a year. Israel, despite the fact, it is a relatively rich country, receives more foreign aid than any other other country in the world. We veto resolutions in the United Nations all the time that are critical to Israel. Is one allowed to question that reality, or is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and politically, that the relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore unmentionable? And what happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable?

In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. In it they state that it is not, or no longer, expedient for the US to support and protect present-day Israel. Together with the power shifts in Congress and the increasing doubts about the current Middle-East policy, this could become the fuse in the powder keg. Backlight talks to the people concerned in this 'new realism' debate.

The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel (Neocon Richard Perle, televangelist John Hagee, and lobby organization AIPAC), and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the lobby. Member of Congress Earl Hilliard from Alabama advocated a rapprochement with the Arab world and was promptly ousted by a political adversary who had the support of Aipac money. Historian Tony Judt, who tried to maintain that Israel was becoming a belligerent and intolerant ethno-state, driven by religion, found a lecture cancelled at the last minute. And Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth was personally attacked after he had criticised the violence Israel had used in the mini-war against Lebanon last summer.
Finally the question arises to what extend the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's ex chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House. The lobby, Congress, the White House and Israel itself seem to have ended up in a suffocating embrace: will it ever change and how could it? Tony Judt and Richard Perle conclude by raising the crucial matters: what is the alternative? And what other friends can Israel count on?

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[xgarievas2]

LIKE IT OR NOT THE JEWS ARE THE SMARTEST PEOPLE ON EARTH DON'T LIKE IT PISS OFF!

[roda2468]

@xgarievas2 Please, don't be delusional. It's like everyone hates these Zionists-- land-stealing, illegal occupiers, killing machine Zionists. Their end is so very near

[roda2468]

@xgarievas2 Do yourself a favour? Piss off :) I would hope your end is like their end

[wolgreth]

America would eliminate half of its problems if it just stayed out of the ME.

[bigoxtailbone2]

if people think the jews will include you "gentiles" in to any world where they dominate, think again. This guy hagee is either paid by the zionists or is just stupid. I would go with stupid. Just the fact that there is word for non-jews separates themselves and places them as superior to others. jews are afraid that the world will see that they betrayed God. They do not have faith and need to cry wolf at every corner. They have so much fear because they do not trust in God.

[D4rknb3h0ld3r]

@OrthodoxDarwinist Yashua Christ said it best: You shall know them by their works, for their work is hypocrisy.

So, wherever you find hypocrisy you'll find an Edomite. America is largely hypocritically, because it's largely controlled and influences, through schools and media, by hypocritical Edomites. But, look at the bright side. Obediah says we're (House of Jacob and house of Joseph) will make them into a camp fire ;-) and not ONE shall be left alive.

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

death to jews worldwide and world jewry, the most hateful warmongering and racist people on Earth!

[goldberg823]

The Encyclopedia Judaica,Vol.10,(1971)relates the following about the Khazars(Chazars

Khazars,a national group of general Turkic type,independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism

Encyclopedia Judicia,Vol.10,1971

Jews are impostors,fraud,liars,Bible tell us in Revelation 2:9,,3:9,they are the Synagogue of satan.

Read this book for free to understand the whole truth.

Who is Esau-Edom...

[JackTiger9]

The ADL is a hate group that wants to murder free speech so nobody can expose the evils of Israel and Judaism.

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

@wolgreth

Can you imagine for a second if Iran and Arabs were responsible for more than 1/3 of all political funding (as Jewish Zionists are) and had these massive conventions with the Iranian flag flying in the background and American politicians giving passionate speeches shouting: "IRAN LIVES, IRAN LIVES!" There would be such an uproar that every American would be on the street protesting.

BUT if Zionist Israelis do it... that's supposedly perfectly OK. WHY the double standards?????

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

"Support for Israel has cost America dearly - well over than $10,000 per American - however the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been extremely costly for the entire world. The total bill for supporting Israel is two to four times higher than that for the U.S. alone - costing the global community an estimated $6 to $12 trillion."

- Thomas R. Stauffer's summary of the research was published in the June 2003 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

@xgarievas2

More shameless Zionist racial supremacism. How am I not surprised? You freaks sure learned a lot from Hitler, at times it seems you emulate his methodology.

[brianspost75]

They are not more intelligent, they are more manipulative. Watch th video "Why the Jews are hated", by William Pierce.

[kcoldkchill]

The europeans occupying palestine are behaving like scum