- that the ZPC is just another lobby;
- that other nations and their leaders commit equally violent crimes and abuses;
- that criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic;
- that Israel is a democracy and the only one in the region;
- the uniqueness of Jewish suffering and the Holocaust as exclusively affecting Jews; and
- that Israel/Palestine discussion should be balanced - in complete denial of a powerful oppressive state v. a near-defenseless and persecuted people - on their own and with virtually no outside help.
- the Israeli Lobby is far and away the most powerful in America;
- criticizing Israel more than other abusive states is important because of its inordinate ability to influence US policy;
- accusation of anti-Semitism is a canard, a non-starter, a way to shift attention from real issues;
- Israel defiles democracy by granting it only to Jews and not even all of them; it disdains the less privileged much the way they're treated in America;
- exploiting the Holocaust as an exclusive Jewish issue defiles the outrage of so many others, including much greater ones; and
- the imbalance between pro-Israeli representation v. hostile or indifferent views about Arabs is pronounced.
Consider also some "big questions facing Americans as a result of the power of Israel in the United States:"
- the ZPC wants was; "has played a major role" in influencing them in the past eight years; and is very capable of pushing America into new conflicts regardless of which party in Washington is dominant;
- the big issue is "World Peace or War" and the horror of the latter;
- Israel and its Lobby harm US democracy by stifling "the right to debate, to elect (and) legislate free from coercion;" also to select political candidates strongly opposed to Israeli policies and against providing financial and military support;
- Israeli interests harm our own; further, "never in the history of the US republic or empire has a powerful but tiny minority been able to wield so much influence" over our foreign policy for the benefit of another nation;
- by doing it, the ramifications are staggering: permanent wars; massive deaths; unimaginable human misery and destruction; outrageous and ill-directed amounts of spending; a staggering amount of unrepayable debt; the alienation of the entire Muslim world; growing world indignation overall; and the demise of democracy in America - partly because of sacrificing homeland interests to serve those of a tiny foreign power.
Watch the video Rabbi Against Israel (Zionism)
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