
Translator: Zahra Zamanloo
Source: Rasekhoon.net
Source: Rasekhoon.net
Israel introduce himself as someone who seeks peace and defines Arabs as evil; but all know that Israel when founding this occupied country committed ethnic cleansing of mass executions and then apply the brutal behavior that was far from moral. For example between 1949 and 1965 Israel murdered between 2700 and 5000 Arabs that were unarmed. The Israeli army in the war of 1949 and 1965 killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners and during the war in 1967, Israel expelled between one hundred to two hundred thousand Palestinians from their land and 80 thousand Syrian out of Golan land. During the first Intifada, Israel distributed a stick among his army to break the bones of Palestinian protesters. Some organizations have estimated that around seven thousand Palestinian children whose 13 percent are under ten years are in need of medical treatment for the treatment of wounds received during the intifada. In the second intifada, even Harts wrote that Israel has performed a terrible murder during the second intifada.
And finally there was no other way for Palestinians to induce Israel to accept his demands except using violence. And even Barak has told:
(If I had been born a Palestinian, I would join to the terrorist organization). If the cooperation of United States with Israel has neither strategic motives nor moral motivation, then how this country̓ s support could be interpreted? It cannot be interpreted, except the pressure group (lobbies). Here pressure groups are individuals and organizations who actively seek to change US policy toward Israel's interests. This does not mean that this lobby has a certain center and leader and it does not mean all the Jews living in the United States. Jews living in the United States have established several important organizations that are part of pressure groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Council, or AIPAC, as well as Congress of presidents of major Jewish organizations. These two organizations are pro-Likud and its expansionist policies.
New Christian (Jewish Christian)
The AIPAC is the most powerful and the most famous Zionist organizations. Fortune magazine in 1997, performed a poll among the members of Congress and its staff about the most influential organizations. The results showed that AIPAC in the US is the second effective organization. In 2005, the same result was repeated. The pressure group of Zionist, does not limit to Jewish and it has accepted Christian Zionists and neo-cons as its membership. The pressure group is like any other pressure groups, but it has two distinct strategies: first it has an effective pressure on the administration, Congress and the executive authorities second it shows extreme efforts to show Israel as a positive country in the public opinion.
The effect of these pressure groups on the congress is too high that does not allow anyone to criticize the policy of Israel, even the speech of the congress members was written by IPAC members. Another help of this group is the views and contributions of the Jews. Although Jews make up one percent of US residents, they pay an enormous financial contributions to candidates of their party.
The influence of the Jewish lobby
One of the important works of Jewish pressure group that takes action to ensure that the critics of Israel do not achieve an important position in the field of external relations to bring decision-making institutions. This makes the critics of Israel to its supporters. In the Clinton administration, those who were developing US policy in the Middle East, were the supporters of Israel, like Martin Indyk who was earlier as vice president of AIPAC, or Dennis Ross (US envoy to the Middle East) or Aaron Miller, who lived periodically in Israel. These above mentioned people were of Clinton's closest advisers at Camp David, therefore, during negotiations, the Palestinians always complain that they are negotiating with two Israeli groups. One of these groups is under the banner of Israel, and another group is under the banner of the United States.
The pressure group of Zionist lobby tries to control the media. Eric Altrman, American journalists said: I know around sixty prominent journalist and analyst who did not hesitate under the support of Israel, and only there are five journalists who dare to criticize Israel.
The Ambitions of pressure group
The expectations of pressure group are not limited to the continuous of US support from Israel and against the Palestinians but US likes to help Israel to make him the greatest power of Middle East. This pressure group has been effective with the help of Israel and Israeli organizations, in the development of US policy toward Iraq, Syria and Iran, and it has an influence on the strategic plans to change the geography of the Middle East. This group releases the pro-Israeli news, letters and settling the protests and attacks institutions that prints news against Israel. One of the CNN executives has said: once we spread a news in the broadcast for which we have received six thousand e-mail complained that news.
One of the actions of this group was to monitor the content of masters’ courses and their writings. In 2002, two neo-cons, with the name of Martin Kramer and Daniel Lbys established a base on the Internet, on which the Files of professors who had doubts about the support of Israel, had been reported and the students had been asked to write their idea about the behavior of Israel. This caused the reaction of university professors and they had to remove those files from the internet, but the base still exists.
The effect of this group is so daunting that even if a person says, there is a Israeli lobby (lobby) in the United States, he has put himself at risk and the accusation of anti-Semitism, although Israeli media noted that the United States itself is a Zionist Israeli lobby. The Zionist pressure group and the Israeli regime have been the main causes of the US war with Iraq. Many believe that this war has been oil war, but this claim is not true because, one of the motives of this war has been the preparation of Israel's security. According to Philip Zelikow, the previous member of Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Executive Director of the Commission on September and the present advisor of Condoleezza Rice, the real threat from Iraq, has not been for the United States but Israel.
Israel, the US stimulus before the propaganda campaign against Iraq, the Washington Post wrote: Israel, encouraged the United States not to delay in the military invasion to Iraq. Israeli officials developed various reports about Iraq's WMD program. When Bush decided to win the approval of the Security Council, Israel became angry and Simon Peres, in Iraq during and after agreement with the international experts said that fighting with Saddam Hussein is necessary and sending the experts to Iraq is not useful.
Ehud Barak wrote in the New York Times that the danger is that we do nothing. Netanyahu in Wall Street Journal, wrote an article under the title of (to destroy Saddam) in which he said: (I am speaking on behalf of the majority of Israelis who support a pre-emptive strike against Saddam and destroying his system, and anything less is not acceptable ) . The newspaper of Haaretz wrote: political leaders and military commanders in Israel were eager for war against Iraq. Assertions of Israeli authorities was too much that their allies in the United States asked them to talk about this issue less so it was not assumed that the United States has proceeded to the war on behalf of Israel.
Pressure Group, Syria and Iran
After the fall of Iraq, members of the Zionist lobby in Israel, focused their pressure on Syria, and urged the United States to put pressure on this country. Paul said that we must change the political system in Syria. Nicholas Pearl also told journalists: I have a two-word message to the enemy that (you will be attached to Iraq). New York Daily News said Syria is sponsoring terrorism and it needs some change. Some neocons wrote that Assad is the real threat for the United States. Neocons do not lose any opportunity to tell about the necessity of regime̓ s change in Iran. The US political system has used all his efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program, but it is so far of success.
The future of the Zionist lobby
The question that arises now is whether it is possible to control the power of the Zionist lobby? The answer is that after the collapse of Iraq's it is better this happen. Now, especially after the discovery of AIPAC̓ s espionage against US officials and in Israel's favor, we need the reconstruction of the United States in the Arab and Muslim world, especially now that the United States can have a more important role in peace between Palestine and Israel after the death of Arafat. Abstract is that US leaders have the opportunity to get away from the policies of the pro-Israeli lobby in the policy in favor of US interests in the Middle East. If a peace is realized between Palestine and Israel, it will contribute to the promotion of democracy in the Middle East. But that will not happen anytime soon, because AIPAC and their American allies do not have serious opponents among pressure groups and American politicians wish to achieve the financial resources of this group and they take care of the pressure of these groups and the media sympathize with them. But there are risks that the Zionist lobby has for the United States: One is that the risk of terrorist attack to the US and Europe will be increased. And it will be impossible to achieve peace between Palestine and Israel and there for this helps the spread of radical Islamism in Europe and Asia. Smash of the Zionist lobby for regime change in Syria and Iran, puts the United States on the offensive situation against these two countries.
And this is a disaster unless we need another Iraq. Another disadvantage of Zionist lobby is that these two countries (Iran and Syria) deny from the fight against al-Qaeda and militants.
After all, there is a moral issue that the help of the United States to Israel in the oppression of Palestinians, has made the US as the cooperator of Israeli crimes and it causes a doubt about the truth of US invitation to democracy. And it approves that the claim of the US is Hypocritical. And the negative impact of the Zionist lobby on Israel is because of the fact that the agreement of Washington with the occupation of Palestinian territories has taken the opportunities of peace and saving the lives of many Israelis. Denying the legitimate right of the Palestinians has not increased Israel's security, it might be more prudent if the Zionist lobby was weaker than the United States.