Saturday, 4 April 2009

Documentary 'The Israel lobby - The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy'


Here is a TV documentary on the influence of Israel on US American foreign policy regrading Israel and the Middle East. It shows reflection on the reactions that resulted after the publishing of the Book The Israel Lobby by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. It is impressive how this lobby has its fierce grip on public opinion in the USA. If you pay attention that most people gave their opinion and were critical against this lobby and against the policies of Israel are Jews. Nobody else would dear say such opinions publicly of fear of being brabded with Anti-Semitism. I find this terrifying and I think that it lead thr USA to take decisons that simply would contadict with their intersests if they keep on being under such a strong influence.
In fact if you watch this video (and probably if you read the book, what I didn't) you would undersatnd that even when the new governemnt of Israel under Netanyahu are overtly saying that they are agaimst the 2 state solution, which is the central point of the US American policy in the Middle East, no one in Obama's administration would dare counteract this. Still, I hope that suprises might occur?

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