Focus on AIPAC

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The Pro-Israel lobby in Britain: full text

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom ... l-text#m12

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsi ... mphlet.pdf

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom ... -full-text

http://www.bicom.org.uk/news/headlines


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AIPAC, Mearsheimer and Walt contend, “has a stranglehold on Congress.” With a $47 million a year budget and more than 100 full-time staffers, it is no doubt a formidable advocate for Israel’s interests. ...

In the past Israel has supplied arms and training to: the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia for its genocide of 200,000 East Timorese; the Nicaraguan contras for its killing of at least 50,000 oppositionists; Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship; the military dictatorships of Brazil, Argentina, El Salvador, and the list goes on.

But Israel’s role as America’s bully-for-hire is not just a thing of the Cold War past—though the statute of limitations on prosecuting these crimes against humanity should never run out. ...

http://www.isreview.org/issues/52/israellobby.shtml

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Britain's Channel 4 exposes 'power' of pro-Israel lobby.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1129102.html


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Is the Israel lobby doing more harm than good?

[Ref:] .. the documentary on Channel 4 this week - "Inside Britain's Israel Lobby" ....

... You'd have to be particularly ill-informed to be surprised that well-connected, pro-Israeli groups try to lobby the main British political parties and that wealthy individuals connected to such groups donate large sums to the parties and many members of Parliament. It's also well known that they also fly many MPs over to Israel on fact-finding visits and that some believe that this influences these politicians' attitudes and their parties' policies regarding Israel and the Middle East conflict. Hardly surprising. ...

the real problem with today's Israel lobby, in Britain and the United States, is not with its finances and their lack of transparency but with its entire mind-set. The basic fact is that by its actions, the lobby is now causing Israel more harm than good. That's the point Oborne almost totally missed. On every level - moral, political, diplomatic, economic, military and religious - this country is being rapidly corrupted and damaged by the continuing occupation of the West Bank. By granting blanket support to all policies of whatever Israeli government happens to be in power, and by branding critics of these policies as either self-hating Jews or anti-Semites, they're contributing to Israel's siege mentality and delaying the day when Israelis will finally realize that there's only one practical and ethical alternative.

In this sense at least, Oborne was right to make the connection between the political lobbying and the relentless pressure on the media which has totally blurred the lines between legitimate criticism and real bias. These knee-jerk reactions to any form of criticism have become so second nature to the Israel lobbyists that they're now trying to stifle debate even within the Israeli media. Their shrill reactions to the eyewitness accounts of soldiers who fought in Gaza and were brave enough to say that the IDF did not always act there as "the most moral army in the world" are a good example.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1129517.html


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Community Security Trust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Security_Trust


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The new Israel lobby in Canada —

the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) — has enormous power, derived from abundant resources, corporate connections, political associations, elaborate and able organization and a cadre of dedicated activists. ...

Since its inception several years ago, this hard-line lobby has used its power, first, to gain political hegemony and impose ideological conformity on the matter of Israel within a heretofore diverse Jewish community, and second, to influence government decisions and shape public opinion regarding Israel — ostensibly in the name of all Canadian Jewry. From the outset, a primary focus of this lobby’s attentions has been the university campus, alleged centre of anti-Israel sentiment, conveniently construed as anti-semitism. ...

According to the Forward, one observer described the CIJA’s incorporation of the CJC and the CIC as a “hostile takeover,” while another told the Toronto Star that it amounted to a “coup d’état by powerful financial interests bent on cementing their control over Jewish advocacy activities in the country,” adding that “these guys are used to getting their way.” “This is a group of self-appointed people who have very little linkage with the Jewish [masses] and they have private agendas of their own,” Thomas Hecht, former Quebec chair of the CIC, pointed out. ...

“The underlying theme is a total centralization of Jewish thought, opinion, and messaging. It’s an attempt to silence the activists in our community.” ... a hijacking of Jewish identity in Canada by a well heeled and politically well connected cabal of zealots. ...

http://canadiandimension.com/articles/1890

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The Protocols:

Forgery or not ... The ‘Israel Lobby’ has implemented most of ‘The Protocols’.

Check it out here: http://www.aztlan.net/protocols.htm

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Intimidation at the New York Times: How the Israel Lobby Silenced 2 Leading Columnists.

http://usmediaandisrael.com/?p=134#more-134

http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0792/9207007.html

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TONIGHT: Senate Will Pass AIPAC's Iran Sanctions Bill To Undercut Obama.

It appears that the 800 pound gorilla that is AIPAC has been eating regular. The Senate is prepared to vote tonight -- under super expedited procedure -- on AIPAC's legislation that would impose onerous sanction on Iran, cutting the legs out of the President's diplomatic strategy.

Note. This is being done in the dark of night although, on the good side, it takes only one senator to stop it (and he or she can do it anonymously). …

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenb ... 84610.html


WASHINGTON (JTA) -- J Street has endorsed congressional legislation imposing sanctions on Iran's energy industry. ….

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/07/1009569/j-street