The Israel Lobby (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2007)

[razors edge]

Run time: 50:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N294FMDok98   Posted on YouTube: May 31, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 04, 2007 By DU Member: razors edge Views on DU: 796

 
The most enlightening Middle East policy perspective you won't see on television, ever.

[leftchick]

1. wow! Thanks for this perspective

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For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so? In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. In it they state that it is not, or no longer, expedient for the US to support and protect present-day Israel. The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel, and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the lobby. The question arises to what extend the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's former chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House.
With political scientist John Mearsheimer, neocon Richard Perle, lobby organization AIPAC, televangelist John Hagee, historian Tony Judt, Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth, colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Democrat Earl Hilliard, Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy and investigative journalist Michael Massing.

[rAVES]

2. Thanks for posting this, n/t

[DutchLiberal]

3. VPRO's "Tegenlicht" is a Dutch television program that always looks at issues from the *other angle*

They also show the side of a story that's not main-stream, or not commonly accepted, and they always offer enlightening new insights, based on thoroughly done documentation.

VPRO is part of the Dutch public television. This program is part 1 of a six-part mini-series about the Middle East.

[provis99]

4. Ironic that Israelis get so much support from Christian anti-Semites

like Hagee. Sure, Hagee and Christian fundamentalists support Israel, but why? He skirted around the question, arguing the Bible says support Israel. But the part of the Bible that Hagee is interested in is Revelations (read his books, if you can stomach them). The basic idea is to get all the Jews into Israel, so the Apocalypse can be jump-started, and when the Apocalypse happens, all the Jews that don't immediately convert to Christianity will be killed. No more Jews, period. These Christian fundamentalists aren't friends of Jews, they're genocidal anti-Semites hoping to bring about the end of the world!

[UndertheOcean]

5. thank you for this

CNN will never have something like this !