The israeli lobby in the america. part 1 / 5

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, the Lebanese Christian Brigitte Gabriel and evangelist John Hagee, the lobby club 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.

The historian Tony Judt, who tried to maintain that Israel was becoming a belligerent and intolerant ethno-state, driven by religion, found a lecture canceled at the last minute. And the Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth was personally attacked after he had criticized the violence Israel had used in the mini-war against Lebanon last summer.

Finally the question arises in how far 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 in how far the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House. Member of Congress and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is asked in how far today's politicians can stay out of reach of the long arm of the pro-Israel lobby. 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?


his is a well made film. Due to the influence of the lobby, this film could not be filmed by the United States but rather by a news station in the Netherlands.

The topic of Israeli influence in the United States is one which faces incredible censorship whenever there is an attempt to discuss it. At the heart of this matter is AIPAC a powerful organization who influences US policy.
The Israeli Lobby influence is so strong in both parties that relationship between the US and Israel will probably not change regardless of whether republicans or democrats are elected.

If you want to understand U.S. policy in the middle east, you first should understand AIPAC.

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[hromi]

Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and of course G. W. Bush deserve to be executed!!!

[urbansetter1]

I don't feel this is a muslim jew thing, it is a land and greed war. Israel and the US have bullied the middle east. Americans are unable to critize Isreal in puplic we are automatically anti semites. We are creating war crime all over the Middle east. 9/11 was a retaliation to Isrealli and US bullying. Who are we to supply weapon to Isreal to blow up palestine and then ask for oil, lol, its kind of funny

[911Truthseekers3]

CFR runs the Media, look up who owns the media, Rothschilds, Morgans, and more, Ring of Power, Who owns the Federal

Reserve, coverups in history books, Zionism is Nazism. look up zionist nazi medal, 911missing links and much more. If

Americans ...

[Eriklouw]

Right, dutch and thus the netherlands. One of the better programmes on tv here.

[viragemasta]

lol, french? This docu is in dutch. Belgium or The Netherlands.

[ILIKESFLAN]

Is there a version that isn't in french?

[mrtattel]

J Street is calling on the U.S. Treasury Department to launch an investigation into whether American charities that fund Israeli settlement activity have broken the law. A recent New York Times report revealed a connection between an American organization that fundraises for Israeli political activity and "a former executive director of the banned Israeli political party Kahane Chai." Kahane Chai was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 1994.

[PeaceForMidEast]

@H0wAb0ut My experience of debating with pro-Israel ppl like u often ends this way: they chose to end the debate when they are losing it and then they call me names like 'stupid'. But the fact is: they are losing it and have nothing more constructive to say!!

[PeaceForMidEast]

@H0wAb0ut the name-calling ended the debate? the pointless-ness ended the debate? Make up ur mind, friend. You would like to debate with intelligent people because it would then not waste ur time? Or is it u would like to deabte with ppl who agree with u?

[H0wAb0ut]

@PeaceForMidEast No.Because it is pointless.I like to debate with intelligent people and with you it is just a waste of my time