The Jewish Lobby in the U.S.

The Jewish Israel Lobby in the U.S.

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"One Nation, Under Israel"
by Andrew Hurley, 1999.
Reviewed by Richard Curtiss

AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is Israel's main lobby in the U.S. There are about 126 other political action committees (PAC), listed under deceptive names to hide their actual purpose, that can be mobilized at any time to rain money on any congressman ousting his disobedient opponent who dared criticize any aspect of U.S.-Israeli relationship. No wonder AIPAC is referred to on the Capitol Hill as "The Lobby". Many congressmen (now all ex's), such as the late Fullbright, Findley, and Percy, felt its power when daring to mildly criticize U.S.-Israeli relationship. Such criticism would also induce the wrath of the numerous pro-Israel columnists around the nation's major newspapers, such the New York Times' Safire, A.M. Rosenthal and the more subtle Thomas Friedman, the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer and George Will, the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby, or the New Republic's Martin Peretz and Steven Emerson.

Those who are in line with AIPAC's will --commonly seen prostituting themselves and their country for the sake of Jewish vote-- such as Gephardt, Forbes, Helms, Gilman, D'Amato, Moynihan, Harkin, Levin, Specter, Lieberman and Gingrich, are generously rewarded. All Netanyahu (or any Israeli leader) has to do is make up a catchy phrase, regardless of how false or out-of-context it may be, e.g. "Arafat is not keeping his promise of locking terrorists up" or that "the Palestinian Authority has not changed their charter which calls for Israel's destruction". Immediately following that the whole flock of these pro-Israel congressmen are seen parroting in unison the same statements over and over until a new is devised. It is sad to see the many policy makers of today having their own political gains in mind, rather than the good of their country and the world.

The Israel Lobby
By John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Excerpts from their acclaimed book.
A Look at The 'Powerful Jewish Lobby'
By Mark Weber
Pat Buchanan: In His Own Words On American Jews and the Pro-Israel Lobby
A collection of quotes allegedly made by the U.S. politician Pat Buchanan
and taken from the Zionist-Jewish organization ADL:s Homepage
AIPAC's influence on US politics
From the Jewish Tribal Review homepage on Jews and Government part 1.
Them or Us - AIPAC on Trial
By James Petras
Entrenched Hypocrisy - Hillary Clinton, AIPAC and Iran
By Joshua Frank
Former U.S. congressman James Traficant on the power of the Jewish lobby
Includes a videoclip from his TV-appearance on Greta van Sustern's show, Fox News, September 10th 2009
Pro-Israel Lobby Sways U.S. Policy
About AIPAC - "American Israel Public Affairs Committee", (New York Times Service 07/06/1987)
Spy Probe Scans Neocon-Israel Ties
By Jim Lobe
Lobby's influence on Israeli policy due to skill in Congress
New York Times about AIPAC's influence
AIPAC - The No 1 Lobby Group in Washington
The Israeli-Zionist Lobby in the United States
By French intellectual and politician Roger Garaudy
How Obama was interviewed by AIPAC
Unprecedented: Presidential candidate Obama interviewed by AIPAC's Board of Directors - i.e. kissing the ring!
From the Winston Smith Ministry of Truth Archive.
Can Obama escape the Domination of AIPAC and the American Jewish/Zionist Israeli lobby?
By Debbie Menon
A Strange Kind of Freedom
Robert Fisk: on the Jewish lobby in USA
AIPAC Trains US Student Pro-Israel Activists
From Cleveland Jewish News.com
Restrictions on Rice speech worry Israeli lobbying group
Article from The Chicago Tribune
Mahatma Gandhi and the pro-Israeli lobby in the US
By Robi Chakravorti. On the forced resignation of Arun Gandhi and the Jewish lobby vis-a-vis Mahatma Gandhi.

AIPAC Ranked #2 for Second Consecutive Year in FORTUNE Magazine's "Power 25" (AIPAC WebSite 11/23/1998)
AIPAC Ranked 4th
(Fortune Magazine)
Gingrich Prostration Caps Month of Congressional Prostitution for Pro-Israel Votes, Campaign Contributions
By Shirl McArthur (Washington Report 07/1998)
While AIPAC Slept
By Daniel Bloch (Jerusalem Post 10/03/1999). An interesting article from an Israeli right-wing paper, addressing AIPAC's influence and "slips" in service of Israel.
Pro-Israel PAC Donations Soared in Final Months of 1996 Election Cycle
By Richard Curtiss (Washington Report 04/1997) also here (10/1996).
The Pro-Israel Lobby
By Edward Herman (Z Magazine 07/1994)
Labor Accuses AIPAC of Being 'extreme right-wing' group By Nitzan Horowitz (Ha'aretz 08/04/1998). Even Labor thinks that AIPAC is too pro right-wing.
Safire Media Attacks Began When Inman Blocked Israeli Access to U.S. Satellite Intelligence.
Excerpts from transcript of televised news conference by Admiral Bobby Ray Inman in Austin, TX, Jan. 18, 1994 (Washington Report 02/1994).
Another article by Richard Curtiss on this issue (Washington Report 02/1994).
The Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US and the Inman Affair
A chapter from Israel Shahak's book "Open Secrets".
What’s in Al Jazeera’s undercover film on the US Israel lobby?
The Electronic Intifada, 5 March, 2018. "Multiple Israel lobby sources told Israel’s Haaretz newspaper last month that they had received assurances from Qatari leaders late last year that the Al Jazeera documentary will not be aired."
Will Al Jazeera Air The Lobby Before AIPAC Meets?
Israel’s lobbyists are working to suppress U.S. exposé. Antiwar.com, February 14, 2018.
Also includes article from British Jewish News: "Qatar won’t air American ‘Lobby’ film"
UAE leadership praised at AIPAC
Al Jazeera English, 6 March 2018
Saudi Arabia's MBS meets AIPAC, anti-BDS leaders during US visit
Articles from Al Jazeera English, Ha'aretz/Jewish Insider, PressTV, March 2018

Mahmoud Abbas meets AIPAC, ADL
Palestinian "leader" Abbas tells U.S. Jews: "I Would Never Deny Jewish Right to the Land of Israel"

Pro-Israel Lobbies Urging Agenda Inimical to Israel ...
By Neve Gordon (Washington Report 01/1998)
The Israel Lobby in America - Special Report
By Robert Hazo (Washington Report, August 12, 1985, Page 1)
The Jews who Run Clinton's Court
By Avinoam Bar-Yosef (Ma'ariv 09/02/1994)
Demonizing Islamic Revivalism: The Jewish Lobby's Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy
By Dr. Ahmad Yousef & Terry Rauch
Kosher White House
(Middle East Realities 6/16/1997)
Political Overkill
By Joseph Harsch (Christian Science Monitor 08/16/1984)
U.S. Policy-Makers' Voting Record on Israel in 1997-98
By Shirl McArthur (Washington Report 09/1998)
Under Prodding of a Zionist Al Gore Fires a Speech Writer
By Donald Neff (Washington Report 07/1998)
Dear Bill, a call on Bill Clinton from an Israeli peace activist, to toughen up against Netanyahu and "disregard those bought senators"
By Uri Avnery (Ma'ariv 08/24/1998)

The Lobby
By Michael Poulin (Palestine Papers 06/1989)
Israel's Powerful Friends
By George Szamuely (www.antiwar.com 06/2000)
They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby (PDF)
The whole book by Paul Findley.
An Illustrated History of Zionism in Modern America - Part 1 (PDF)
The power of Jewish organizations such as B'nai B'rith, World Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, ADL, AIPAC, JINSA, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Zionist Organization of America.
An Illustrated History of Zionism in Modern America - Part 2 (PDF)
America-Israel political relationship. The Jewish Lobby in action, photos of U.S. politicians bending over.

“...Congress is bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby...”

“The Israel Lobby was a major factor in pushing the United States into Iraq although it had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11.”

– Chris Hedges, former Middle East Bureau Chief New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner, in Al Jazeera English, "Inside Story", February 1, 2024 (14:20 & 24:00)

AIPAC President Resigns
By Sheldon L. Richman (Washington Report 12/1992)
Donald Trump kissing Zionist ass at AIPAC
Video of the highlights of Trump's speech at pro-Israel AIPAC lobby group rally, March 2016.
Ambassador Nikki Haley brags about bullying UN for Israel
Video of US Ambassador Haley´s disgusting performance at AIPAC - a true shabbos goy.
Sen. John McCain's Speech to AIPAC - American Israel Public Affairs Committee
June 02, 2008
See also: McCain Addresses AIPAC Annual Policy Conference 2002
Senator Hillary Clinton's Remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
February 1, 2007
Colin Powell Kisses Ass At AIPAC
Transcript of Powell's speech
Al Gore Prostitutes Himself in Front of the Israeli Lobby
Al Gore delivered a speech at the 39th Annual Policy Conference of AIPAC
The Israel Lobby Archive - external site
Good site with lots of info on the Jewish Lobby in the U.S.
Cartoons/Caricatures on the Jewish Lobby

Other Jewish lobbies

The Israeli-Zionist Lobby in France
By Roger Garaudy, extract from his book "The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics"
Mitterrand Complained About a "Zionist Lobby"
(Reuters/Ha'aretz 08/27/1999)
The Israel lobby in the United Kingdom
The entire 2009 Wikipedia entry on the subject, naming their most important organizations
Exposed: the Israeli-Jewish lobby in the U.K. - Documentary
The Lobby: Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. Four-part documentary released in 2017.
"Inside Britain's Israel Lobby"
Documentary aired on Channel 4, November 16, 2009. Alternative links: here and here

AIPAC

The Jewish lobby and the Iraq war

Jewish Lobby pushes US to war against Iraq
By David Rogers (Wall Street Journal 01/28/1991)
Israel's Role in the Gulf War
"The Jewish lobbyists in the USA are deeply involved in the propaganda work promoting a war against Iraq." -- Ha'aretz, 01/13/1991
AIPAC Asking Its Members to sign PRO-Sanction Letter
(AIPAC Update 03/14/2000)
AIPAC and the Iraqi opposition
Article published Online by the Israeli Newspaper Ha'aretz

Presently the same Jewish lobby is active for boycott and war against Iran.

Quotes

We, the Jewish people, control America

"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
-- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001.

"I've never seen a president --I don't care who he is-- stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles your mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what's going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn't writing anything down. If the American people understood what grip those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens don't have any idea what goes on." -- Admiral Thomas Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (See Washington Report 12/1999, p.124 quoting from Andrew Hurley's book, "One Nation Under Israel")	"... terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen .... I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don't approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the country" -- Sec. of State John Foster Dulles in Feb. 1957 quoted on p.99 of Fallen Pillars by Donald Neff
"The Israeli Prime Minister has a lot more influence over the foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East than he has in his own country." -- Former Congressman Paul Findley, in his book They Dare to Speak Out, p. 92.	"The Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate ... somewhere around 80 percent of the senate of the United States is completely in support of Israel -- of anything Israel wants...." -- Chairman Senator Fullbright, 10/07/1973 on CBS' "Face the Nation".
"We have exhausted our requests. President Clinton has answered all our needs. There has been no American president in history like President Clinton, in his support of Israel and the Jewish people." -- Shimon Peres (From Washington Report, July 1996, pg. 17)	"President Clinton behaves like an obedient child of Israel and does not know how to say `No.'" -- Nahum Barnea, Israeli writer (From Washington Report, July 1996, pg. 17)
"There is definitely an anti-Arab bias in America, and I regret it" -- Peter Jennings cited in Alfred Lilienthal's 1982 Zionist Connections II, p.273, citing Edmund Ghareeb, The American Media and the Palestine Problem, Journal of Palestine Studies, Autumn 1975, Winter 1976.	"The Capitol Hill is an Israeli occupied territory". -- Patrick Buchanan (St. Louis Dispatch, 10/20/1990).

"I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews. [Former Secretary of State George] Marshall and [former Defense Secretary James] Forrestral learned that"
-- Sec. of State John Foster Dulles in Feb. 1957 quoted on p.99 of Fallen Pillars by Donald Neff

"I know I was elected by the votes of American Jews. I owe them my victory. Tell me, is there something I ought to do?"
-- U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaking privately to Ben-Gurion (p.90 A & L Cockburn 1991).

"The little Knesset"
-- Sec. of state James Baker describing pro-Israel Congressmen, quoted in the Web Page of the Zionist Organization of America, which, in turn, quotes the Los Angeles Times (March 7, 1992)

"I do not think I ever had as much pressure and propaganda aimed at the White House as I had in this instance"
-- U.S. President Harry Truman writing in his memoirs about the Zionist pressure to support the partition of Palestine.

"But I believe that Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government. They control both members of the House, the House and the Senate. They have us involved in wars in which we have little or no interest.
Our children are coming back in body bags. Our nation is bankrupt over these wars. And if you open your mouth, you get targeted. And if they don't beat you at the poll, they'll put you in prison.
[...]
They're controlling much of our foreign policy. They're influencing much of our domestic policy.
Wolfowitz as undersecretary of defense manipulated President Bush number two back into Iraq. They've pushed definitely, definitely to try to get Bush before he left to move into Iran.
We're conducting the expansionist policy of Israel and everybody's afraid to say it. They control much of the media, they control much of the commerce of the country, and they control powerfully both bodies of the Congress. They own the Congress."
-- Former U.S. congressman James Traficant in Fox News, September 10th 2009.