Why the US backs the apartheid regime of Isreal , Ask Desmond Tutu...?

Question

Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has candidly identified the reason. Speaking to an audience in Boston, he said:

"But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful ­ very powerful." [2]

Bishop Tutu spoke the truth. Although Jews make up only two or three percent of the US population, they wield immense power and influence ­ much more than any other ethnic or religious group.

As Jewish author and political science professor Benjamin Ginsberg has pointed out: [3]

"Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations. Today, though barely two percent of the nation's population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation's largest newspaper chain and the most influential single newspaper, the New York Times... The role and influence of Jews in American politics is equally marked...

Do you agree with the peace prize winners comments?

Answer 1

The comparison is valid with one distinction. The jews exhibit a far,far higher level of cruelty toward their subjugated majority than the Afrikanners ever did. They are determined on a path of slow-motion expulsion and extermination. Period.

Answer 2

I love Desmond to death, but I cannot agree. Aparthied is on such a bigger level than homophobia. Sure, if the government made all homosexuals wear name tags and put us in a class system based on the Kinsey scale or something like that, I could go along with it. But that just doesn't jive with me. I'm black, and I'm gay. I realize that there are some serious distinctions in the struggle of both. For those that try to make out them on the same level, I respond. "You must not be black." or "You must not be gay." As for Desmond, I'm shocked that he has such an opinion, but it is his to have.

Answer 3

Yes. They utterly dominate the media and not in any harmless way; there are endless and gross distortions of reality and fact. And this in turn permits them to manipulate popular opinion and therefore the elective process. This business of buying up the whole media is not new. It happened in France in the late 19th century and it happened in Germany during the inflation of the 20's. By 1930 they owned pretty much the entire media. And that makes people quite resentful.

Answer 4

No. Yassir Arafat and Hitler were both nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize so as you can see- it is essentially worthless.

Israel is protecting its citizens against the barbaric Arabs who have plotted since 1948 to exterminate Israel- and the Jews. Poor, poor bloodthirsty Arabs haven't had any success- so we should all feel sorry for them?

Give me a break. When the Arab cowards stop targeting civilians, come back and talk.

Answer 5

Absolutely.
OYEP, and they're not content to control the media here in the states either---they wish to control EVERY aspect of our lives to their satisfaction.
Allow me to tell you a true story that occurred in my hometown several years ago. The local excellent symphony orchestra planned to perform a concert featuring the works of Wagner. The area's Jewish population was up in ARMS, and demanded that it be cancelled---why? Because Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer!
Apparently, it didn't occur to them that this composer was/is loved and appreciated by millions of others besides Hitler. (The concert was performed to a sellout crowd, btw.)
I happen to know that, as a working artist, Hitler's favorite medium was watercolor. If the local Jews got their way, I guess watercolors would have been banned from my art supply store, too.

Answer 6

Why do not Arabs with all their wealth have their own power full Media net work? It is not simply a Matter of owning the media and just propagating lies.
Are the likes of Saddam, Ahmedinajan, Gadafi, Musharraf etc angelic?

Answer 7

Yes. Israel is an occupying force on someone else's land, put there purposefully to destabilize the region and give Western democracies better access to resources. Their only claim to the land is religious, and should therefore be summarily ignored by the US government.

Answer 8

no

but it is deemed to be anti-anything to have a different point of view

there is bias and prejudice on both sides of the israeli conflict - as you know - even handedness is the way forward

not forever finding ammunition to support your strongly held points of view....

Answer 9

Of course I do...the notion that Jews have their hands in many pies is no stereotype but refelcts reality and this is just further evidence

Answer 10

What? it's the Palestinians that want all Jews removed from the Holy Land. Israel has no such racial or religious agenda, but has many Arab citizens.