The United States supports Israel in a variety of ways. We give them all
sorts of military and economic support, roughly 3 billion dollars a
year. Israel, despite the fact, it is a relatively rich country,
receives more foreign aid than any other other country in the world.
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.
The book describes the lobby as a "loose coalition of individuals and
organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction".The book "focuses primarily on the lobby's influence on U.S. foreign policy and its negative effect on American interests".The authors also argue that "the lobby's impact has been unintentionally harmful to Israel as well".
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