It seems like a fiction novel. I could be an argument for a thriller. Action, conspiracy, government relations, money, organizations, power... But it isn’t. An article published by John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) entitled 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. It was 2006. In fact, the article was written four years before, and was rejected by The Atlantic Monthly.
The subject (pro-Israeli lobby in the US political scene) is not the kind anyone wants to talk out there. Why the US keeps on defending Israel above all things? Why the US gives so much money to Israel? The per capita income of Israel is almost the same as in Spain. 26,800 and 27,400 respectively. Defense? I don’t think so. Israel has a nuclear weapon.
Talking about that could be dangerous. As you can see in The Israel Lobby, a documentary produced by Dutch public broadcasting company VPRO.
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Is one allowed to question that reality, or is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and politically, that the relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore unmentionable? And what
happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable? 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. Together with the power shifts in Congress and the increasing doubts about the current Middle-East policy, this could become the fuse in the powder keg. Backlight talks to the people concerned in this 'new realism' debate. The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel (Neocon Richard Perle, theLebanese Christian Brigitte Gabriel and evangelist John Hagee, the lobby club AIPAC), and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the lobby. Member of Congress Earl Hilliard from Alabama advocated a rapprochement with the Arab world and was promptly ousted by a political adversary who had the support of Aipac money.
The historian Tony Judt, who tried to maintain that Israel was becoming a belligerent and intolerant ethno-state, driven by religion, found a lecture canceled at the last minute. And the Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth was personally attacked after he had criticized the violence Israel had used in the mini-war against Lebanon last summer. Finally the question arises in how far the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's ex chief-of-staff) explains in how far the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House. Member of Congress and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is asked in how far today's politicians can stay out of reach of the long arm of the pro-Israel lobby. The lobby, Congress, the White House and Israel itself seem to have ended up in a suffocating embrace: will it ever change and how could it?
happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable? 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. Together with the power shifts in Congress and the increasing doubts about the current Middle-East policy, this could become the fuse in the powder keg. Backlight talks to the people concerned in this 'new realism' debate. The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel (Neocon Richard Perle, theLebanese Christian Brigitte Gabriel and evangelist John Hagee, the lobby club AIPAC), and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the lobby. Member of Congress Earl Hilliard from Alabama advocated a rapprochement with the Arab world and was promptly ousted by a political adversary who had the support of Aipac money.
The historian Tony Judt, who tried to maintain that Israel was becoming a belligerent and intolerant ethno-state, driven by religion, found a lecture canceled at the last minute. And the Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth was personally attacked after he had criticized the violence Israel had used in the mini-war against Lebanon last summer. Finally the question arises in how far the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's ex chief-of-staff) explains in how far the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House. Member of Congress and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is asked in how far today's politicians can stay out of reach of the long arm of the pro-Israel lobby. The lobby, Congress, the White House and Israel itself seem to have ended up in a suffocating embrace: will it ever change and how could it?
O lobby pró-Israel
e as maracutaias da política estadunidense
Essa semana eu assisti, na web, a um documentário intitulado The Israel Lobby. Produzido por uma emissora pública da Holanda, VPRO, o documentário foi exibido no programa Backlight e foi disponibilizado na internet.
A base é um artigo, já publicado como livro, cujo título é "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" de autoria dos cientistas políticos John Mearsheimer (da Universidade de Chicago) e Steve Walt (de Harvard). É realmente um assunto polêmico não só no meio político americano, mas também no acadêmico e na imprensa. Tanto é que o artigo foi recusado em 2002 no The Atlantic Monthly, somente ganhando notoriedade com sua publicação no London Review of Books em 2006, logo após ser publicado como texto na página do Kennedy School.
Parece história de ficção ao melhor estilo Robert Ludlum. Temos o cenário, o tema intrigante, as organizações intimamente ligadas ao governo, as estratégias político-militares, o dinheiro, o poder... Só não tem um herói definido.
Já tinha lido alguma coisa sobre essa estranha relação EUA x Israel, a influência de alguns judeus americanos dentro da Casa Branca. Mas nada comparado a todas informações que o documentário traz. É real. E dá um certo medo. E não tem ligação alguma com os dois partidos políticos americanos, Democratas e Republicanos. Qualquer um que entra, dança conforme a música. Podemos ver, por exemplo, Obama e Clinton e Bush e os seus, todos com o mesmo discurso.
Por que tanto dinheiro é dado a Israel pelos EUA? Um país com certo grau de desenvolvimento, com tanta tecnologia, com uma renda per capita quase igual a da Espanha. E são bilhões de dólares por ano em ajuda americana. Alguns vão dizer: "É para auxiliar na defesa daquele país". Será? Sabia, você que pensa assim, que Israel é uma das infelizes nações na face da Terra que possuem a bomba atômica? Defesa eu descartaria
Um detalhe interessante é a questão religiosa envolvida. E não falo do judaísmo. Muitos seguem a fio a tese de que a formação de Israel cumpre uma profecia bíblica. Logo, podemos ver a forte influência de cristãos evangélicos. A extrema-direita estadunidense, de mãos dadas com Bush.
Logo, independente do partido, independente da religião, o negócio é o mesmo. Defender Israel acima de qualquer coisa. Os que ousam criticar tal postura, esbarram na "desculpa do holocausto" e, assim, sofrem a pressão da opinião pública ignorante, dos políticos imbecis e comprometidos, da imprensa burra. Artigos e livros criticam essa política lobista. Como "The Holocaust Industry" de Norman Finkelstein. A propósito, ele é judeu.
Bem, infelizmente o documentário não está em português. Mas o tema e as informações estão dados para aqueles que quiserem se aprofundar. É só pesquisar no Google. Para os que conseguem entender inglês, aproveitem. É um filme ótimo. A descrição está na parte acima, em inglês.
Matéria na Revista Época
Texto de Emir Sader
The Israel Lobby on Wikipedia
AIPAC
THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt. "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." Working Paper RWP06-011, Cambridge, Mass.: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 13, 2006.
Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt. "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." Middle East Policy XIII 3 (Fall 2006): 29-87.
A Conversation with Professor Norman Finkelstein
Freedocumentaries.org
Texto de Emir Sader
The Israel Lobby on Wikipedia
AIPAC
THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt. "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." Working Paper RWP06-011, Cambridge, Mass.: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 13, 2006.
Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt. "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." Middle East Policy XIII 3 (Fall 2006): 29-87.
A Conversation with Professor Norman Finkelstein
Freedocumentaries.org
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