The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence
The Israeli lobby’s brazen intrigues and naked power are becoming an embarrassment to the American political elite
INTOLERANT OF OPPOSING VIEWS, they’re suppressed for its own agenda, funded by PR propaganda domestically and overseas, America’s top publications paid off to go along, now revealed by a secret document subpoenaed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (FRC) investigation into the American Zionist Council (AZC), AIPAC’s parent lobbying arm.••Stephen Lendman [print_link]________________________.
...“The US contingent of 60 Mayors returned from Israel where they attended (an earlier) Conference….While (there), a number of them were interviewed by (US reporters) who sent (pro-Israeli) stories back to their hometown papers; they were also recorded in interviews for local radio stations.”.....Overall, measures were taken to counteract his unfriendly Israeli positions, the same policy used against all critical public figures, strike back to discredit them...Bribing major US publications and their writers helped do it, including at the Reader’s Digest, Atlantic Monthly, Look, Holiday, Parade, Saturday Review, the New York Times Magazine, and various women’s and business ones. Today, the entire US major media serve as Israel’s PR arm, its mouthpiece, the fruition of efforts begun 50 years ago.....AZC’s Research Bureau also analyzed books and articles on Israel. “When a book is favorable, it is recommended. When (it’s not), it is analyzed and distortions are pointed up by providing the factual data required, so that our local Councils will be prepared to react….Further, we (arrange) book presentations (in) community and university libraries….”....He won a Pulitzer Prize for his lying, and got to fly on the plane that bombed Nagasaki, later describing the experience in The Times with religious awe. Today, the entire US major media cheerlead for Israel, even its most unjustifiable, unconscionable, criminal acts. Entirely suppressed is its history of international law violations, including:......Senior Editor Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.