Former Israel Knesset member Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery, Former Israel Knesset Member Confirms Walt and Mearsheimer

Here are some excerpts from a recent article, “Who’s the dog? Who’s the tail?” by the courageous former member of the Israel Knesset, Uri Avnery, on the Walt and Mearsheimer Harvard School of Government paper that exposes the power of the Israeli Lobby that rules American foreign policy:

Who’s the dog? Who’s the tail?by Uri Avnery

“The findings of the two professors are right to the last detail. Every Senator and Congressman knows that criticizing the Israeli government is political suicide. Two of them, a Senator and a Congressman, tried - and were politically executed. The Jewish lobby was fully mobilized against them and hounded them out of office. This was done openly, to set a public example. If the Israeli government wanted a law tomorrow annulling the Ten Commandments, 95 Senators (at least) would sign the bill forthwith.”
I don’t usually tell these stories, because they might give rise to the suspicion that I am paranoid.

For example: 27 years ago, I was invited to give a lecture-tour in 30 American universities, including all the most prestigious ones - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Berkeley and so on. My host was the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a respected non-Jewish organization, but the lectures themselves were to be held under the auspices of the Jewish Bet-Hillel chaplains.

On arrival at the airport in New York I was met by one of the organizers. “There is a slight hitch,” he told me, “29 of the Rabbis have cancelled your lecture.”

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