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Don't accept the rules for how to criticize the Israel lobby

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Every one of my allegations of influence is an interpretation based on facts: I'm connecting dots. Others may well connect the dots differently (and leftwingers will say that Israel reflects U.S. global interests). I'd argue that the sum and substance of this record is that the Israel lobby is essentially the foreign ministry of Israel in the capital of the most powerful country in the world and it exists, as it has stated itself, to make sure that there is no daylight between the US government and Israel. And if you think that has ever meant changing Israeli policy, I have a bridge to sell you.

It means shifting U.S. policy.

If you believe this is the pattern, as I do, then why wouldn't you throw yourself into opposing it? And why would you ever fight with one hand behind your back? That's what the lobby wants.

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Philip Weiss is a longtime writer and journalist in New York. He co-edits a website on Israel/Palestine, Mondoweiss.net, which he founded in order to foster the movement for greater fairness and justice for Palestinians in American foreign policy. He is currently working on a novel about the US in Australia during WW2.

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