Learn about the Power of AIPAC (America Israel Public Affaires Committe)

For more than half a century, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has worked to ensure that American support fro Israel remains strong.  From a small pro-Israel public affairs boutique in the 1950s, AIPAC has grown into a 100,000-member national grassroots movement described by The New York Times as “the most important organization affecting America’s relationship with Israel.”

Read for yourself their enormous ability to fashion USA foreign policy:

http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/default.asp

Now the Zionist lobby is hard at work in the UK and Europe, infriltrating the major political parties to ensure that, in spite of the well documented Israeli violations of human rights, political support for Israel remains strong.

Comparisons of the basic principles that the political parties claim to uphold, regarding respect for international law and human rights, and the basic raison d’etre of the Political Party Friends of Israel- to protect Israel from criticism- show a fundamental conflict of values.

Whose Afraid of AIPAC?

 Just about every  President and politician in the USA!

“AIPAC has already shown that it can have a big impact on election results. When the lobby decides to topple a member of Congress, that is the end of his political life. When the lobby concentrates its financial and political might on a certain spot, it is almost invincible.”  

  “At the beginning of his (Obama’s) path in the Middle East he stepped on some landmines. He has learned his lesson…… When Obama says that he stepped on a landmine, he means the mine called AIPAC.”

Uri Avenry, Israeli writer.     Read his full article:  ‘Rahm and Israel’  May 31st 2010 http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery05312010.html

Jews are Eight Times Over Represented in Parliament

At that rate Muslims would have 200 seats

By Stuart Littlewood      21 May 2010

Stuart Littlewood considers the phenomenal over-representation of Jews and non-Jewish Zionists in the UK parliament which, in terms of support for Israel, is magnified even further when viewed alongside the Conservative and Labour party leaders’ umbilical ties to the Israel lobby.
http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/05/jews-are-eight-times-over-represented.html

Robert Fisk: Power to Change  May 22nd 2010

If America can’t broker peace in the Middle East, is it time for the Russians to step in? They have a long history with the region – and aren’t hobbled by an Israeli lobby

No American president can pressure Israel to change its policies towards Palestinians. Mearsheimer does not mince his words. “The main reason is the Israeli lobby, a powerful coalition of American Jews and Christian evangelicals that has a profound influence on US Middle East policy. Alan Dershowitz” – yes, the same – “was spot on when he said, ‘My generation of Jews … became part of what is perhaps the most effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy.’”

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-power-to-change-1983794.html

American Jewish Committee builds Israel lobby in Europe

BRUSSELS, Feb 2 (IPS) -

Defenders of Israel’s aggressive stance have for many years been recognised as a powerful force shaping United States foreign policy. A less well-known fact is that the pro-Israel lobby has been making a concerted effort to strengthen its presence in Europe.
The American Jewish Committee and a few others, is setting up shop in the EU to replicate their success in making criticism of Israel out of bounds. They’re urging that funds to human rights groups that criticize Israeli policies as racist or defacto apartheid be cut off !
The lobby’s determination to make an impression on European Union policy-makers was exemplified by a new booklet published on Jan. 28.

Read more..http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50190

British Government Zionists press for a change of law to protect Israeli war criminals

 The Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced his intention to change the law on ‘universal jurisdiction’ late last year and is pushing hard within Whitehall for a solution. He is supported by  Shadow Middle East minster David Lidington who stated, “It is very clear to me that this issue is doing serious damage to relations with Israel”.

Sources close to the Jewish Leadership Council confirmed that representations to the government had intensified over the past week.

Read more: 

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/enough-is-enough-by-gilad-atzmon.html

See also News Update page

 INSIDE BRITAIN’S ISRAEL LOBBY – Channel 4 Documentary

 Televised Monday 16 November 8 pm  and Friday 20 November 3 am

Dispatches investigatesd one of the most powerful and influential political lobbies in Britain, which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel.
Despite wielding great influence among the highest realms of British politics and media, little is known about the individuals and groups which collectively are known as the pro-Israel lobby.
Political commentator Peter Oborne set out to establish who they are, how they are funded, how they work and what influence they have, from the key groups to the wealthy individuals who help bankroll the lobbying.
He investigated how accountable, transparent and open to scrutiny the lobby is, particularly in regard to its funding and financial support of MPs.
The pro-Israel lobby aims to shape the debate about Britain’s relationship with Israel and future foreign policies relating to it.
Oborne examines how the lobby operates from within parliament and the tactics it employs behind the scenes when engaging with print and broadcast media.