1. Dr. Mearsheimer: What is the Israel Lobby?

Dr. Mearsheimer, co-author of the New York Times best-seller: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy - came to Toronto in November 2008 to give a talk sponsored by the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation
of Canada (http://www.necef.org/).

These videos are excerpts from his talk.

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Education

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• Israel
• apartheid
• Palestine
• Palestinians
• Israelis
• Lobby
• Middle
• East

[mochitsukiman]

Israel=parasite

[ResearchX]

Lobbying by forign entities should be outlawed. America needs to stop sending money to forign countries. The government must listen to the people.

[o0soda0o]

@jdbrando AIPAC is funded by the US foreign aid Israel receives, it then uses that funding to bribe US politicians to further Israeli interests, as well as to ensure those politicians ensure Israel continues to receive said aid money. It is a feedback loop.

Israel is the only "nation" to have any, let alone dozens of it's citizens in positions of power within the US gov't.

Israel IS, by any objective definition, an apartheid state. Such a state should NEVER receive funding.

[jdbrando]

You're right, Israel receives a large amount of foreign aid. You then made another completely propgated statment that it has "more influence than all of the foreign lobbies combined," as if something like that were measureable or worth it to measure to begin with. The only relevancy to Israel to having the most "powerful lobby" is that it just shows that such a country has dedicated a lo of resources to lobbying, as if lobbying is in and of itself always something that is negative or bad.

[jdbrando]

Whether or not Israel is an apartheid state had nothing to do with the lobbying issue. What you attempted to employ was a pathetic strategy to divert attention to a separate issue while at the same time try to use it to your advantage in attacking Israel as if they are all relevant to the issue in order to bolster your completely subjective and emotional argument.

[jdbrando]

@o0soda0o You're right, Israel receives a large amount of foreign aid. But the countries that i mentioned, like Britain, Ireland, and Italy, receive ten times more aid through NATO, the UN, IMF, World Bank, since the US funds between 35-75% of all of those organizations which European countries then lobby to receive for thier countries.

[o0soda0o]

WarByDeception . com

/watch?v=_d33-Lk5Zbw

All Roads Lead to Israel

[o0soda0o]

@jdbrando AIPAC is the only one that isn't registered as a foreign lobby, it also has more influence than all of the foreign lobbies combined. It is also funded by US taxpayers, via 3 billion dollars in foreign aid per year, more than any other country.

Israel is, objectively, also an Apartheid state.

[jdbrando]

Isn't there an Irish lobby, Italian lobby, British lobby, Romanian lobby, Egyptian lobby, or for that matter, a lobby for every single group and organization in the world. Yet, the only controversial lobby is the Israel lobby. Hmmmm I wonder why...

[flowerdrop1]

Several elected officials also are part of it including Lieberman, McCain and Waxman.

[baretta1983]

Israel is not only in fulfillment of its own politcal and global agenda but in fulfillment of a holy kabbalistic agenda. Israel is omniscient globally in that it has no borders and has infiltrated systems of governance since the very existence of settlement in the land of canaan. It is not only the land of Israel which is dominant rather the elite who work invisibly behind the scenes to manifest a global agenda.

[rachelgolem]

Jews have secret meetings where we laugh when Iraqis kill each other.