Beloved Americans, my professor says that Tel Aviv controls Washington? Is that true???

Question

If yes, does it not scare you???

It scares me.

Answer 1

This is a common RedsStater and Anti Semitic view of Global Politics.

Here we are 100 years after the Hoax Book "Protocols of the learned Elders of Zion." and people still believe the premise of Jewish control.

It only proves FOX is not a news service.

Go Team Bush Go

Answer 2

There are a couple of views on this.

The one you'll hear the most on the news is that Israel and the US have such similar interests that they are indistinguishable--what's good for Israel is good for US. I think that is the least likely to be true.

Another view that's more credible is that the US uses Israel as the "bad cop" in the Arab world, so if any Arab countries get too independent and uppity, Israel gives them the smack down, then we play the "good cop" and go patch things up (at least it might have worked that way until Bush--now it's bad cop--bad cop). Surprisingly this, this is the view of some Palestinian scholars who have otherwise been very critical of Israel.

A third view is about as plausible as the second, but very depressing: that Israel does run a good deal of our Middle East policy because they have the very best lobbyists, at AIPAC. We shoot ourselves in the foot with Arab countries by turning a blind eye to what Israel does to Palestinians, which is always in the list of grievances of every terrorist group. A couple of Harvard professors wrote a good paper on the history of the Israel lobby that caused a lot of controversy, even though their sources were American and Israeli leaders, and events in the public record.

Answer 3

Here is your homework for tonight - a paper by Professors from Harvard and the University of Chicago.

http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf

I am a conservative American but I believe Israel has far too much say regarding our foreign policy and we wouldn't have 3,500 American soldiers dead if America stood up to AIPAC and war mongering Neo-cons who hijacked our government after 9/11.

Answer 4

It's ok to listen to what your professor has to say. Or anyone for that matter. But don't always believe what you hear. Especially when someone says something about what goes on in the government and they have not worked in the government. If you do tend to believe everything you hear, then you fall in line to being a sheep.

Answer 5

Tel Aviv has influence, but so does London, Tokyo, Berlin, Ottawa, Seoul, Beijing, etc...

If anyone controls anyone, it would be the US controlling Tel Aviv. Without American arms, Israel would have been defeated long ago.

Answer 6

It is a fact that most college professors are liberals.

Even in highschool I was fed a lot of liberal OPINIONS, rather than non-biased facts.

Do your own research, don't believe everything you hear. Libs are just as capable as conservatives when it comes to spin.

Be your own person, make up your OWN mind

Answer 7

First of all, your professor or anybody else who criticize the Israeli government is NOT anti-Semitic. I'm so sick of that stupid comment. So if we criticize the Chinese government that we are anti-Chinese?

I hate that everybody in America has to think the same thing and if we try to question this then we are labeled anti this or that.

There is no doubt in my mind that Israel influences our foreign policy greatly. I don't know if they control us though. If they do then I would be scared.

Answer 8

I even heard a pro-Israeli propaganda commercial on the radio today in St Louis urging the people to support an attack on Iran.

This is sickening.

Answer 9

Your professor is a certifiable nut case and a racist. I'm surprised you want to be near him. I had one of those when I was in college and he was one of the protesting hippies from the 60s. He was a real nut.

Answer 10

Yes they do, and it's terrifying.

If we dropped Israel like a hot potato, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems as we do now with the Muslim world.

There will ALWAYS be extremists, that is inescapable.... but that is their major beef with the U.S: We support Israel, which is proving itself more and more to be a terrorist nation.
Look at what they did to Lebanon last summer.