Maybe so, but what about the way that they have picked of congressional representives who opposed Israel, beginning with Paul Finley and onto the recent electoral defeats of Black reps. in the South?
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Echoing Carrol, this apparent strength to influence domestic US politics is, as Mr. Massad's essay sensibly points out, the result of Israel's strategic usefulness to Washington.
Remove that usefulness and the lobby's power dissipates (again, echoing Carrol, as the power of LOTR's Saruman - the lesser of that fictional world's evils, dependent upon the greater for most of his menace - dramatically diminished once the ring met its fate).
Chomsky, Henwood and a few others have been saying this for many years - struggling upstream against the illusion of a puppet string pulling Israel lobby.
Surely, a governor of Cisalpine Gaul enjoyed, due to his territory's vital importance, some influence over Rome. And yet it would be a mistake to say the Roman Empire was controlled by this well-connected person.
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--------- Sí, los terroristas son nihilists pero sus enemigos son nihilists también.