Of Course There Is an Israel Lobby
Interesting article on Israel and The Lobby.
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Ambassador Edward Peck is an Advisory Board Member for the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, was Deputy Director of the Cabinet Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan White House and former Chief of Mission in Iraq, and was in Jerusalem and the West bank as an international observer of the presidential elections in 2005, and in Gaza for the Legislative Council elections in 2006.
The lobby's effectiveness at control was illustrated two years ago. Both government and media condemned China when it arrested, and accused of espionage, a Chinese citizen–Green Card holder visiting from the U.S. Neither the U.S. government nor media has ever protested—has never even mentioned—Israel's years-long multiple arrests and protracted detentions of American citizens, without charge or trial. In September 2000, CNN interviewed four Americans who had been tortured, the only report on this compelling story, and the network has since been forced to refuse selling recordings of that news segment, “Americans Mistreated in Israeli Jails.” America would have been fully informed had any other country committed these acts.
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Ambassador Edward Peck is an Advisory Board Member for the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, was Deputy Director of the Cabinet Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan White House and former Chief of Mission in Iraq, and was in Jerusalem and the West bank as an international observer of the presidential elections in 2005, and in Gaza for the Legislative Council elections in 2006.
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INN World Report had an interview with Ambassador Peck on Thursday. If you go to the site:
www.innworldreport.net
You can see it by clicking on the April 6 link on the left. The interviews come after the national and international headlines.
On Wednesday INN had Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books and publisher of "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" That's on the INN site on the April 5 th link on the left.
On Tuesday (or Monday, I forget) INN had on Mike Rivero of WhatReallyHappened.com, that's on either the April 4th or 3rd link on the left.
Personally, I watch INN on Dish TV Channel 9415, but if I miss a show I watch it on the web or listen to the podcast.
See this commentary on Israeli covert action in America by former CIA analyst and Al-Qa'ida expert Mike Scheuer:
http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=8827
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/265964
_israel09.html
As I embarked on this piece, I glanced at my bookshelves for inspiration. A title instantly leapt out: "The Lobby: Jewish Political Power and American Foreign Policy." In it, Edward Tivnan maintains that the pro-Israel lobby had silenced debate on Capitol Hill and had become an obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Sound familiar? Yet the book was published in 1987.
Plainly, Tivnan's arguments have changed nothing. Americans like Israel, come what may. I will bet that the very similar ones of Walt and Mearsheimer make little difference either.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/265964
_israel09.html
As I embarked on this piece, I glanced at my bookshelves for inspiration. A title instantly leapt out: "The Lobby: Jewish Political Power and American Foreign Policy." In it, Edward Tivnan maintains that the pro-Israel lobby had silenced debate on Capitol Hill and had become an obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Sound familiar? Yet the book was published in 1987.
Plainly, Tivnan's arguments have changed nothing. Americans like Israel, come what may. I will bet that the very similar ones of Walt and Mearsheimer make little difference either.
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