The power of the Israel lobby in the United States
Video includes John J. Mearsheimer, Richard Perle, Lawrence Wilkerson, Tony Judt John Hagee, Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth, Michael Massing, and Daniel Levy.
Produced by VPRO
April 2, 2007
This 51:12 minute program was broadcast as part of the Tegenlicht documentary stream. Although made for Dutch TV, the soundtrack is in English, because all the interviewees are English-speaking.
See De Israël Lobby Portret van een groot taboe: de macht van de Israël lobby in de Verenigde Staten, the VPRO page for this documentary
Machine translation(Babelfish)
Israel lobby
Portrait of a large taboo: the power of Israel lobby in the United States
Monday 2 April 2007 20.55 Ned 2
Wednesday 4 April 2007 14.30 Ned 2 (recurrence)
Keep the United States does Israel standing? And how long do they continue with that still? Can you make commments in United States, however, on that reality, or are pro-Israël the lobby financially and politically this way strong that the relation to Israel taboo is and with that taboo? And what nevertheless happens there with them that it onzegbare to the jaw dares couples?
In March 2006 the American political economists controversial Article ' The Israel lobby and US foreign policy ' published John Mearsheimer (University or Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard). In this they do not demonstrate that it - longer - in the interest of the US is current support and protect Israel. With political shifts in the congress and increasing doubt concerning conducted in the middle of east policy is possible this the spark becomes in a kruitvat. Back-light speaks debate with the people concerned in this ' new realism '.
Both groupings are speaking or to the order: they that the strong link between wants keep the US and Israel in score (neocon Richard Perle, the Lebanese-Christian Brigitte Gabriel and evangelist John Hagee, the lobbyclub AIPAC), and they on this provide that criticism and not seldom ' victim ' became of the lobby. congress member Earl Hilliard Alabama selected alignment to the Arab world and were vervolgens outstripped by a political antagonist who got much Aipac-geld behind itself. Of the historian Tony Judt, who dared claim that Israel ' oorlogszuchtige and intolerant, belief etnostaat floated is become ', a reading at the last moment was called off. And Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth became personal getarget after criticism on violence which used Israel in the mini war against Lebanon of last summer.
Finally the question to what extent pro-Israël the lobby eventually stipulates the military and political interest of Israel himself: colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (ex-stafchef of Colin Powell) hoever explain the influence of the lobby stretch in the decision structure on the white house. And to congress member and democratically president candidate Dennis Kucinich the question to what extent contemporary politicians can pro-Israël withdraw themselves in fact to the long arm of the lobby. Lobby, congress, the white house and Israel himself lijken in a choking embrace to have ended up: (how) can that change ever?
