September 16, 2013 SnyderTalk is up SnyderTalk Lead Headline: Steve Apfel—And why shouldn’t there be an SA Zionist lobby?: With yet another furore at Wits University over yet another Jewish concert, that perennial bogeyman – the Zionist lobby – pops up in the window. Should there even be a Zionist lobby? Why shouldn’t there be? That infuriating but clever Jewish habit, asking a question to answer one, settles the case at hand perfectly. What is wrong with there being a Zionist lobby? Conducted in the open as it ought to be in a democratic system, lobbying is nothing new or inherently sinister. After all, what is it but an act of advocacy for twisting public policy or swaying public opinion to favour a narrow cause. Advertising tries to do a similar thing every day. Given that the Middle East conflict dominates world agendas, and has done for a long time, lobbies – pro, anti and powerful – are bound to be active volcanoes. In the United States, it is the Israel lobby, [AIPAC], that raises concern. ”There is a big bad lobby that distorts US foreign policy … way out of proportion to its actual support by the American public. But the offending lobby is not [AIPAC] but rather the Arab lobby, which opposes the Jewish state.” So wrote Mitchell Bard in a book titled The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance. […] To continue reading, go to snydertalk/?p=28341 SnyderTalk should be your “Go To” place for news.
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