Ook voor lobby-land Amerika is de Joodse lobby wel erg nadrukkelijk aanwezig;
Ik had het over miljoenen die de VS aan Israel 'leent', maar het zijn eerder Miljarden (ruim 3 miljard per jaar).
Er zijn vele zeer invloedrijke think-tanks en adviesgroepen die niet zozeer gaan over Joodse belangen an sich, maar over Zionistische belangen bvb ivm handel in de VS, Zionistische belangen mbt beleidsvorming in de Amerikaanse politiek (oa "pre-emptive war"), en Zionistische belangen in de Amerikaanse media.
Er zijn ook veel anti-Zionistische Joden in de VS [
http://www.codoh.com/zionweb/ziondark/zionoppdex.html ], maar die hebben vrijwel geen invloed; alle die 'joodse' (Zionistische/Likud) invloed wordt aangewend ten gunste van de (geweldaddige) expansie van Israel ten koste vd Arabische wereld. Het gaat daarbij niet alleen om de Palestijnen; bvb "rolling back Syria" staat al heel lang op het verlanglijstje vd Zionisten, het staat ook op het verlanglijstje van PNAC.
Een paar van de meer bekende groeperingen:
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Project for a New American Century (PNAC) (oa Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush (ja, familie), Cheney)
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
en dan zijn er nog de volgende statistieken:
http://www.rense.com/general27/jlobby.htm
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As Jewish author and political science professor, Benjamin Ginsberg, has pointed out: [note 3]
"Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations."
Today, though barely two percent of the nation's population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation's largest newspaper chain and the most influential single newspaper, the New York Times ... The role and influence of Jews in American politics is equally marked.
Jews are only two percent of the nation's population yet comprise eleven percent of what this study defines as the nation's elite. However, Jews constitute more than 25 percent of the elite journalists and publishers, more than 17 percent of the leaders of important voluntary and public interest organizations, and more than 15 percent of the top ranking civil servants.
Stephen Steinlight, former Director of National Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, similarly notes the "disproportionate political power" of Jews, which is "pound for pound the greatest of any ethnic/cultural group in America." He goes on to explain that "Jewish economic influence and power are disproportionately concentrated in Hollywood, television, and in the news industry." [note 4]
Two well-known Jewish writers, Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, pointed out in their 1995 book, Jews and the New American Scene: [note 5]
"During the last three decades Jews [in the United States] have made up 50 percent of the top two hundred intellectuals ... 20 percent of professors at the leading universities ... 40 percent of partners in the leading law firms in New York and Washington ... 59 percent of the directors, writers, and producers of the 50 top-grossing motion pictures from 1965 to 1982, and 58 percent of directors, writers, and producers in two or more primetime television series."
The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the community, Jewish leaders and U.S. official acknowledge. But so is the amount of money they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of the influential Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "estimated Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the funds for [President Bill] Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign." [note 6]
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Notes
1. Quoted in Forward (New York City), April 19, 2002, p. 11.
2. D. Tutu, "Apartheid in the Holy Land," The Guardian (Britain), April 29, 2002.
3. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (University of Chicago, 1993), pp. 1, 103.
4. S. Steinlight, "The Jewish Stake in America's Changing Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy," Center for Immigration Studies , Nov. 2001.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1301.html
5. Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, Jews and the New American Scene (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 26-27.
6. Janine Zacharia, "The Unofficial Ambassadors of the Jewish State," The Jerusalem Post (Israel), April 2, 2000. Reprinted in "Other Voices," June 2000, p. OV-4, a supplement to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Dat zijn geen wilde beschuldigingen maar verifieerbare feiten.
Desondanks wordt juist anti-semitisme als tegenargument opgevoerd; alsof het geen feiten zijn, maar voortkomt uit haat jegens Joden (dan zouden er dus ook heel wat Joden zijn die Joden haten...).