{"id":3451,"date":"2007-04-18T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T21:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/the-israel-lobby-see-the-video\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T00:51:20","slug":"the-israel-lobby-see-the-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/the-israel-lobby-see-the-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Israel Lobby: See the Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss this one: A Dutch documentary\u00c2\u00a0(in English)\u00c2\u00a0on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpro.nl\/programma\/plaatsdesoordeels\/afleveringen\/33882177\/media\/33964115\/\">Portrait of a Great Taboo: The Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States<\/a>,&#8221; featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v28\/n06\/mear01_.html\">John J. Mearsheimer<\/a>, Tony Judt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/19062\">Michael Massing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/18\/AR2006011802607_pf.html\">Larry Wilkerson<\/a> (!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/19\/opinion\/19judt.html?ei=5088&#038;en=309d2e3dc279ff48&#038;ex=1303099200&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=print\">Daniel Levy<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vxyu5fjCKzg\">Richard Perle<\/a> pretending to be a human being for some sinister counterpoint. I particularly liked Wilkerson on the reasons for the Iraq war: no, it wasn&#8217;t oil, it wasn&#8217;t those elusive &#8220;weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; nor was it spreading &#8220;democracy&#8221; (eh, no kidding!): it was all about the neocons. And Judt has a fascinating analysis of the simultaneous rise of the Lobby and identity politics. Plus great production values, and moody, foreboding music that really sets the right tone. <em>Very<\/em> effective: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpro.nl\/programma\/plaatsdesoordeels\/afleveringen\/33882177\/media\/33964115\/\">check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss this one: A Dutch documentary\u00c2\u00a0(in English)\u00c2\u00a0on &#8220;Portrait of a Great Taboo: The Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States,&#8221; featuring John J. Mearsheimer, Tony Judt, Michael Massing, Larry Wilkerson (!), Daniel Levy, and Richard Perle pretending to be a human being for some sinister counterpoint. I particularly liked Wilkerson on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}