The Israel Lobby in the US - VPRO documentary - 2007
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2007
- For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterised 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 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt 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.
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.
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2007.
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Credits:
Research: William de Bruijn
Director: Marije Meerman
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.
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Can you have this in higher def?
Wait a second why is a foreign nation even allowed to have a LOBBY in our country let alone the most powerful one?
+Des Troya why? cuz of the golden rule. he who has the most gold, makes the rules..plain and simple. Their hooks are non retractably affixed to the US gov't. Ya see what decades of planning can do for ya? lol
Des Troya 'THEY' control our money supply. That's the main way they STEAL from our populace.
Dave N what?
@Hair Razor Detox , the bigger question is why do the Americans put up with it.?
Most powerful one hahahaha! The Federal reserve commanded by just a few have your entire population grasped by the tail as a little mouse hahahaha powerful!
In 2019 this documentary is more relevant now then ever
Gemini Sun no kidding. the laws that just passed kind of confirm it all
Trump just passed an antisemitism law.
I recently mentioned in a conversation with some coworkers that Egypt would be a dream destination for me as a history buff-visit the pyramids, temples, etc. One of them suggested Israel, and I replied that I disagree with things Israel does. Instantly she went on a tirade, labeling me an anti-semite and saying "idiots like you have kept us oppressed!" I think that sums the mindset of the Israel Lobbyists in a nutshell right there.
AIPAC needs to go. Someone explain to me, please, how supporting Israel is in any way supports the best interests of the USA?
Israel Lobby funds presidential campaigns and their candidate ALWAYS wins. Israel Lobby dictates economic policy, domestic policy and foreign policy. Israel Lobby decides who chairs the fed (it will always be a Jew). Israel Lobby decides who heads the private banks that control the Fed. Israel Lobby controls when and who we go to war with. Israel Lobby controls who finances the war, on both sides. Israel Lobby decides when the Fed should print money. Israel Lobby controls our spending levels and unsustainable debt. Israel Lobby controls the media, which is why you rarely hear or see them being reported on. Israel Lobby will attack the career of anyone who attempts to shine a light on them, they will fabricate lies and deception to bring the person down. With the control they have they can change public opinion overnight, and can turn the public against anyone with their lies and deception. This has scared most of our leaders from acting against them. Instead they support them for fear of coming under attack from them. If you do not support the Israel Lobby, you are an enemy of Israel. If you want to know who to blame, look no further. What can you do? BDS - Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against ISRAEL and any company that associates with ISRAEL. Attack them at home first, then we will finish them off here second.
Unfortunately Your spot on
If only Americans Knew !!! Sad & scary
United States of Aipac
"Conform or be, cast out"
nice Rush quote
"AIPAC does an excellent job constantly testing people's loyalty to Israel and the Israel cause -- And those who vote in the way that AIPAC wants will be rewarded with campaignfunds, financial support"
"For two months we have been trying to contact people whom voted 'NEE' to certain of the bills that were supported by AIPAC but none of the congressmen wanted to speak with us"
Thanks VPRO. Last bâstions of investigative reporting.
I've said this before, but not once have these crooks in Washington ever explained to the public what our national interests even are. I'm so tired of hearing them say something is for or against our national interests when we don't even know what that pertains.
What's the difference between lobbyist and bribery?
You can think about it but you can't talk about it.
Rest in peace Tony Judt (1948-2010). Great documentary!
That John Hagee character is insane.
Sometimes I get the feeling the military is the most sensible branch of the government, and that terrifies me.
"because Israel has no other friends in the world"
Now that's some comment.
Even though as an individual and Muslim I think that it's unfortunate to live in a world like that while In the bottom of my heart I believe that we can all co-exist.
Great documentary. Thank you.
Excellent piece. What can be learned from this is that the state of Israel better start making amends to the Palestinians and getting chummy with their neighbors. Richard Pearl deludes himself by believing that the American people and government will ALWAYS defend Israel. That said, America will keep defending her which ironically will hurt rather than help Israel in the long run. We'll see how much longer Israel gives lip service to a peace with the people of Palestine whilst developing land.
8:39 What this man just said is astounding. He openly admits that Israel is a burden on the U.S, and yet the latter would rather jeopardize its interests and relations within Middle-East rather than give up on the liability that Israel represents, therefore putting Zionist interests above American interests, alienating the U.S from the rest of the world just to maintain some useless relation with a state holding a record worse than that of apartheid South Africa! He just confirmed everything that was said! And yet he still denies it!
11:31
What's ironic is that all these African-Americans are supporting a state which was secretly one of the biggest backers of the apartheid regime of South Africa and that has shown a massive amount of racism against non-Jews and Jews of colour.
Admiral Thomas Moorer, “If the average American understood what a grip these people (meaning the Jews) have on our government, they would rise up in arms.” - Chief of Naval Operations 1967 to 1970
Did they say Russian meddling..
'we must demonstrate intellectual honesty' - John Hagee. OH THE IRONY IS KILLING ME.
Amigos este documental tampoco cuenta con subtitulos en español, solo se encuentran disponibles en ingles
That was brillant. One of the best docues on AIPAC I have seen. Some very smart people. R. Pearle is, as usual, "a douchbag", to quote Jon Stewart.
@peaceandblessingsant
@IChlDH
You are totally right!
Nothing, not even the holocaust, gives a country the right to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. I simlpy don't understand why nobody seems to care about the rights of the palestinians. Why do THEY have to pay for the crimes Hitler commited?
Greetings from a dutch girl who is tired of occupation, massmurder and injustice.
My compliments to the VPRO, they make the best programs of the hole dutch television and radio.
when is this documentary being shown on PBS, CNN ABC, NBC or Fox? keep me posted, I don't want to miss it.
i really had no idea this was going until very recently. i'm going to do more research on this.
they should be tried for crimes against humanity
Amazing video thanks!!!
They got America by the balls ⚽️ ⚽️
Thank you SO much for posting the full-length video. It is incredible!
Great documentary! Thanks for posting this...
Very good and informative video. Really liked the last part!
hanks to pick up the us-israel strange relationship issue.
great stuff.
its good to see reports that brave enough to bring issues that other dont want to.
support from australia : )
i hope AIPAC take particular heed to the last 2 minutes of this video
Very good upload. Thank you.
Pretty good documentary.
Any government in any country should curb the influence of these lobbies.
I was disapointed when Obama gave his first speech at AIPAC
This is the kind of thing that brought us 9/11.
The idea of the State of Israel was a problem from the start.
Part of the problem is that is combined with Religion.
We need the secular Jews to step up.
The Israel lobby is one the succesfull lobby's in USA, with a wide range of support of american people, like John Hagee, leader of Christians United for Israel and Aipac.
It is not the lobby wich has influance in the white house, it's the white house wich gives influance to the lobby.
i am so glad to hear from people like you.
thanks for your logic.
This is a excellent piece of work.
could someone please tell me which is the language spoken by the narrator? Thank you.
Imagine when redemption comes i want to see what happens to hagee
friend, can i copy ur text and spread it on youtube ?
I love the end comment.
Beautifully said. We can only hope.
Rothschild and Soros
Sheldon Adelson too. They have bought both sides of the isle.
Beach Bum love those guys!!!
Excellent documentary.
That speech by Colin Powell ruined his future career in politics (if he ever had one). He could have made a great leader.
I am a Serb. I live in Serbia (former Yugoslavia). We, Serbs are collateral damage of Jewish/USA foreign policy. While they heavily devastate muslim countries in Asia, they support muslims in southeastern Europe against Serbs and Serbia (we, Serbs are Orthodox Christians). Then US officials say that they have uniform and principal policy. What a hypocrisy. Think about it, each time you listen to lies about former Yugoslavia, especially about Bosnia and Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.
EXCELLENT JOB. /// SHARED. X5. #FACTS.
If you have ten grandchildren and one runs in and eats 80% of the pie and leave 20% for the remaining children, do you think they should all be admonished for the behavior of the one?
WOW! Fantasic job! Thank you very much.
Isn't hindsight wonderful I wonder if Richard perle still stands by his statement.
this video lacks the original dutch narration, which can be seen with subtitles on the website
Do you have better quality version please?
Hi Matt Orfalea, what do you mean with better quality version?
yes they did! Until the World War 2 America was highly respected here in Greece. Ever since USA "established" Israel and declared those wars against the Arabs for Israel's favour,the USA policy is hated by anyone from the extreme left to extreme right parties. Just the foreign policy and not your people of course.
Dunno why u feel that I am imposing my ideas, but I started the comment with the line "And what do you know " because it was meant to be a replay to a comment in a previous page(that an Iraqi wrote btw). And as you noticed(or not) even if u press 'replay' under someone's comment the site sometimes shows it as a new post.
very enlightening.
"so you are okay another COUNTRY is lobbying for THEIR country in America???"
Personally I find it strange custom but hey... it's legal and in fact almost every country has a lobby in Washington. Fact of life
Read Alan Dershowitz's response to the "Israel Lobby" paper. It's quite sad and if anything, solidifies Walt & Mearsheimers points.
Richard Perle is a professional liar.
They know they are wrong and corrupt that's why they won't tolerate questions or criticism. No one is above being questioned.
157 Israelis disliked this video.
Everybody remembers Bush Sr. saying "a new world order", but how many remember the full quote..."Out of a crisis in the middle east will come a new world order." (more or less)
great documentary
@Nir31 I don't think you understood the video. Might want to watch it again.
Good question!!
ned ondertitels?
this is now my best documentary about the conflict with israel .. beside the brilliant documentary "Occupation 101"
@chriscr123 Well said! I've been saying this for a few years now, but it seemed no one was listening. Good to see others out there know what is really going on. By the way, that is nothing negative towards the people, it's really about the jerks that run the country, and the US.
Can you imagine what an example it would set for the world if we were able to find a way to live in peace in Eretz Yisrael? All the pieces of the puzzle are there: a shared monotheistic tradition, a shared land, and shared interests. Perhaps we are closer to actualizing this goal than most people realize.
@Ultrass123 The narrator you mean? Dutch.
Kekakwo, have you read the Talmud? It is no less hateful than the Koran.
Regarding Hamas, after you determine who they serve, whose interests are best served by their actions, you will know who organized and created that organization.
They do not serve Palestinian purposes at all but they do serve Israeli interests entirely.
Amazing movie, i have nothing more to say.
@highervis Wilkerson is right. His point was, oh what's the use. You can watch it again for yourself to see he made perfect sense.
Its nice to hear a rational comment on this video
Google also employs about 80 engineers in its second office in Israel located in Haifa, Israel’s technological center. The Haifa office is just 2 thousand meters away from the beach; I saw pictures but I did not visit that office.
_Sicut Judaeis_ or pogroms.
What will it be?
Pogroms against Die Juden!
Great doc
IF YOU SEEK THE TRUTH LOOK UP CHRIS BOLLYN ON 911 ( ;
just curious, everyone in Israel speaks Hebrew. Do most Israeli people speak english too? I know some speak spanish.
Colin Powell's Chief of Staff made an interesting and insightful film about problems Israel is causing to America foreign policy in the Middle East. J Street and other groups happily are trying to bring peace and a two-state solution in Palestine which if accomplished would go a long way to bring peace. Jimmy Carter and others are working to obtain this. God bless folks who stand tall.
Once again, I don't get it, maybe I'm missing a reference?
that was 1 nice vid
alot of people should see this
Pretty much every single sentence that came out of Perles mouth concerning Walt and Mearsheimers work was (and likely a deliberate) a misrepresentation of what they actually contended (and corroborated).
Small countries make big statements:)
Now all we need is our politicians to listen.
Greetings from holland!
@4aaaaa4,
gud points bro, keep it up n dnt wory bout d thumbs dwn!!
And if I am an idiot, does that make her any smarter? The problem for me is that there seem to be people with a lot of influence over our government who have the same mindset that she displayed, and attack any difference of opinion with the same sheer ferocity. The US policy toward the entire region seems to so often center on "Israel Good-Arabs Bad!" and I just don't see how such a simplistic mindset can possibly work.
10:36. Okay since you wanna use the Bible
Revelations 3,9
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
they rule the world simple as that,they rule the world with all the money they have,and USA Gov have the most powerful Israeli Lobby !
And if we're lucky he'll suffer the same fate. And soon. He didn't get his nickname because he's a bright, shining star of purity, goodness and light.
obviously this is the most special one.
american poiticians need to start putting american interests ahead of israel interests
I'm from israel and this is the first time ive heard of AIPAC
It was bush whom of which had already given Iran nuclear support in return for help in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Your missing the point. Yes, it is only 2% of the popultaion, but it isn't the number of people. It is the amount of money that 2% has and is willing to spend to further its cause.
Who said I am staying gone? I just need to rally my troops.
I have seen Larry Wilkerson be very sensible in the past (his criticism of the Iraq war) but his criticism his a morass of circumlocution. He is critical of their scholarship then basically goes on the agree with all their conclusions with the caveat that American can't change course on its Israeli policy even though it is no longer strategically sensible because we are too "culturally" connected and because of the political pressure of AIPAC.
@Outthereandback I do give Jews credit. They fight tooth and nail for their interests. Even better, they wrap their interests in universal language. As Richard Perle cleverly noted, "Israel's interests coincide with America's interests." Utter nonsense!
You should read a book called "The Culture of Critique" by Kevin MacDonald. He discusses Jewish intellectual movements that pushed their agenda, and does so in a scholarly and non-attacking manner. Msg me for more info.