Vanaf het begin van het zionisme zijn de zionisten altijd gesteund geweest door een enorme hoeveelheid geld en politieke slagkracht, die zij met grote efficiëntie en meedogenloosheid hebben gebruikt. Een bekend voorbeeld is de zionistische lobby, AIPAC, een van de machtigste lobbyorganisaties in de Verenigde Staten. Het resultaat van AIPAC's pressie op politici is vaak intense vijandigheid en vijandigheid van die politici. Deze gevoelens ontaarden vaak in antisemitisme.
An inside look at AIPAC’s political muscle was unwittingly granted when in 1992, Chaim Katz, a New York businessman, secretly recorded a phone conversation with David Steiner, the president of AIPAC, and released it to the Washington Post. [1] Among the things Steiner said to Katz:
I got, besides the $3 billion, you know they’re looking for the Jewish votes, and I’ll tell him whatever he wants to hear ... Besides the $10 billion in loan guarantees which was a fabulous thing, $3 billion in foreign, in military aid, and I got almost a billion dollars in other goodies that people don’t even know about ... I’ve got a whole shopping list of things ... I have friends on the Clinton campaign, close associates ... I’ve known Bill for seven, eight years from the National Governors Association. I know him on a personal basis ... We have a dozen people in the campaign, in the headquarters, in Little Rock, and they’re all going to get big jobs ... I also work with a think tank, the Washington Institute. I have Michael Mandelbaum and Martin Indyk being foreign policy advisers ... We have Bill Clinton’s ear. I talked to Bill Clinton. He’s going to be very good for us ... A girl who worked for me at AIPAC stood up for them at their wedding. Hillary lived with her. I mean we have those relationships ... One of my officers, Monte Friedkin, is one of the biggest fund-raisers for them. I mean, I have people like that all over the country ... He’s said he’s going to help us. He’s got something in his heart for the Jews, he has Jewish friends ... Clinton is the best guy for us ... We’re just negotiating. We’re more interested right now in the secretary of state and the secretary of National Security Agency ... I’ve got a list. But I really can’t go through it. I’m not allowed to talk about it … [2]
Katz told the Washington Times that he taped the conversation because “as someone Jewish, I am concerned when a small group has disproportionate power. I think that hurts everyone, including Jews. If David Steiner wants to talk about the incredible, disproportionate clout AIPAC has, the public should know about it.” [3]
Zionisten ontkennen niet het joodse machtsspel te spelen in nationale en zelfs internationale aangelegenheden. Net zoals Herzl de antisemitische perceptie van Joodse macht bespeelde en deze bevestigde en aanmoedigde, zijn de zionisten in zijn voetsporen getreden. Het is een zionistische traditie om de wereld te laten geloven dat zij de macht van het wereldjodendom bezitten, dat het wereldjodendom veel meer macht heeft dan in werkelijkheid het geval is, en om die illusie van macht die de zionisten bezitten te gebruiken om voor hun doelen te lobbyen.
Zionisten hebben aanzienlijke macht, maar het probleem wordt verergerd door hun neiging hun macht op te blazen door het hele Jodendom als hun kiezers te beschouwen. Voorbeelden van dit gedrag zijn er in overvloed.
In 2003 British politician Tam Dalyell accused Tony Blair of buckling to pressure from “the Jewish lobby.” For referring to the Zionist lobby as the “Jewish Lobby,” Dalyell was accused of anti-Semitism. Blaming Jews for the acts of Zionists, his accusers claimed, is anti-Semitic. That is true, of course, as the Zionists do not, in fact, represent world Jewry. Journalist Paul Foot observed that Dalyell was “wrong to complain about Jewish pressure. But that is a mistake that is constantly encouraged by the Zionists.”[4]
Met andere woorden, het is verkeerd om alle Joden de schuld te geven van de daden van de Zionisten. Maar deze "fout" die zoveel mensen maken is iets wat de Zionisten actief bevorderen door te beweren dat het Zionisme het Jodendom is, en dat Israël alle Joden vertegenwoordigt.
[1] http://www.washingtonreport.me/1992–december/january-1993/jews-and- israel.html [2] The Complete Unexpurgated AIPAC Tape [3] http://www.washingtonreport.me/1992–december/january-1993/jews-and- israel.html [4] Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence, p. 137.
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