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To: George W. Bush
How is it that the Israeli lobby is so successful in playing both sides of the fence here in the U.S.? American Jews who overwhelmingly prefer Israel's interests over those of the U.S. tend to be liberal Democrats bordering on socialist. Yet Israel apparently enjoys broad support among well-known conservatives especially of the "religious right" persuasion.

You're right in that the Israel lobby seems to own the Senate, which is half Dem and about one-quarter RINO. The House, which is much more conservative, doesn't seem to take its orders from Israel.

What's going on?

116 posted on 09/20/2001 12:17:19 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: Illbay
How is it that the Israeli lobby is so successful in playing both sides of the fence here in the U.S.? American Jews who overwhelmingly prefer Israel's interests over those of the U.S. tend to be liberal Democrats bordering on socialist. Yet Israel apparently enjoys broad support among well-known conservatives especially of the "religious right" persuasion.

You asked a question and answered it in the next question. Israel has broad support among people who are not Jewish. It is not all the work of the Israel lobby.

125 posted on 09/20/2001 2:02:07 PM PDT by Inyokern
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To: Illbay
How is it that the Israeli lobby is so successful in playing both sides of the fence here in the U.S.? American Jews who overwhelmingly prefer Israel's interests over those of the U.S. tend to be liberal Democrats bordering on socialist. Yet Israel apparently enjoys broad support among well-known conservatives especially of the "religious right" persuasion.

Look to the media's influence on people.

Doesn't it seem strange to you that the massacre of upwards of nine million Ukrainians in the Artificial Famine of 1932-3 is basically unkown, in the U.S.? I saw the Diary of Anne Frank movie in around 1959, the nuns of our school had Anne Frank's father there to speak to us. From that point till now, I probably hear of the holocaust twice a month. Admittedly it is heinous beyond belief. But no less so is the intentional starvation of 1/4th of a nation! Why did I never hear of this event in history, through all the years of a U.S. education, through graduate school, and forty years of movies and T.V. shows, while still in the states?

Would it surprise you to know the New York Times squelched it, the reporter, Duranty lied about it. Times has never retracted.

127 posted on 09/20/2001 2:32:25 PM PDT by ExiledInTaiwan
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