‘The Israel Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo: the Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States’ VIDEO

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LINK to the documentary ‘The Israel Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo: the Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States’ within the article below. (In English)

Documentary on the American Israel Relationship · 3 April 2007, 22:10 CET by Charles Vermeulen

Lawrence Wilkerson in the Tegenlicht documentary ‘The Israel Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo: the Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States’

"Dick Cheney and his minions have brought – and Richard Perle was one of his minions and Doug Feith is one of his minions – have brought the art of lie to a new scale, a new level. Was oil the number one influence on President Bush and Vice President Cheney? Or was WMD? Or was spreading democracy? I don’t believe it for a moment. They didn’t even think about spreading democracy when they started this war. They transmogrified the mission into [spreading] democracy simply to appease the American people and to give them some reason to support the war. You have to decide were these factors… and inevitably the Jewish lobby in America, AIPAC in particular, the focus lobby, has got to be there. You’re being naive if you don’t put that factor up there as an influence on national security decision-making. Particular with the Bush Administration the AIPAC lobby is very influential through Vice President Cheney. Very Influential! And through people like Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz and a host of others within the government." (Retired US Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson on the decision making decision-making process that led to the invasion of Iraq in Tegenlicht)

This weeks edition of Tegenlicht, a documentary program by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO, allows several interesting opinion makers to speak on the future of the American and Israel relationship and the reception of John Mearsheimer’s and Steve Walt’s controversial articel ‘The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy’. Among others John Mearsheimer, former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson, cofounder of the ‘Christians United for Israel’ lobbying group John Hagee, neoconservative Richard Perle and historian Tony Judt express their views in Marije Meerman’s and William de Bruijn’s documentary. Click here to watch ‘The Israel Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo: the Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States’ (‘De Israël Lobby. Portret van een groot taboe: de macht van de Israël lobby in de Verenigde Staten’). No knowledge of Dutch required.

AIPAC, Lawrence Wilkerson, Israel Lobby, Tony Judt, Mearsheimer