De Pro Israel Lobby 6

De Amerikaanse voormalige ambassadeur in Irak Edward Peck schrijft: 'Of course Israel has a lobby. The London Review of Books recently published an article, by professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, on the Israel lobby's negative impact on U.S. domestic and international interests. The expected tsunami of rabid responses condemned the report, vilified its authors and denied there is such a lobby -- validating both the lobby's existence and aggressive, pervasive presence and obliging Harvard to remove its name. All democracies have lobbies. Shrill insistence that no groups promote Israel is ludicrous. Opinions differ on the long-term costs and benefits for both nations, but the lobby's views of Israel's interests have become the basis of U.S. Middle East policies. That this influence largely results from the efforts of people determined to exercise their democratic prerogatives is not open to question - - or to challenge. The dangerous, unacceptable result of that lobbying, however, is the stifling of public debate. Knowing the fiercely negative reactions to accurate, detailed reporting of controversies surrounding Israel, the media fail to cover Israel's violations of every principle for which the United States -- and Israel -- loudly proclaim they stand. There is only rare, skimpy coverage of the ongoing Israeli mass punishments, house demolitions, illegal settlements, assassinations, settler brutality, curfews and beatings. On the other hand, the blind Palestinian rage generated by decades of receiving humiliating, savage suppression in their homeland is reported in lurid, bloody detail.' Lees verder: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06099/680444-109.stm Of:
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