To the
editor of BBC- Newsnight
Wow! Your story “Pro-Israel lobby on Capitol Hill” (Newsnight, May
8) does not half exaggerate. Do you really expect intelligent
readers to believe that the Washington administration is unable
to think for itself and requires the permission of a Jewish lobby
before it makes a move? Or that Malcolm Honlein is, in your
words, the most influential private citizen in American foreign
policy”, more influential even than Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell,
Condolezza Rice, Dick Cheney, James Baker or George Bush snr. You
must be kidding.
The only credible part of Tom Carver’s story is his statement that
that “it is “received wisdom” (is that the same as conventional
wisdom?) in much of the Arab world, that a so-called Zionist lobby
has a stranglehold on American foreign policy. This is the same
Arab World wisdom, which persistently spreads blatant lies,
claiming, for example, that the Jews committed the 9/11 tragedy,
that the Israelis distribute aphrodisiac chewing gum to the
Egyptians, that they deliberately spread AIDS, that the holocaust
did not happen and that the “Protocols of Zion” is factual?
Does the BBC’s evident esteem for Arab World wisdom, perhaps
explain the obvious anti-Israel bias which has crept into so many
BBC programmes?
I would appreciate your response.
Yair Malachi
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