Finally, Israel Lobby Gets Challenged

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/100110a.html


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Two news articles have recently appeared, each discussing a different approach to overcoming the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby that presently has enough clout to substitute its own parochial interests for the U.S. national interest.

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The optimistic view here is that in the relatively near future J Street will become strong enough to displace AIPAC and its hard-line stance on the Occupied Territories, which can be summed up, “we must keep it all.”

While this prognosis might be a tad premature, the situation has progressed enough that folks involved in this effort are now discussing tactics and approaches that might speed up AIPAC's demise. Which leads to the two stories.

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looks like the tide is turning

Walt and Mearsheimer generated huge controversy in 2006 with their Israel Lobby article, but a big splash in intellectual-land doesn't frequently translate into a lot of people caring elsewhere. In order for the status quo to shift regular folks would have to care and plenty of people simply don't.