NOTE: let us keep the discussion as clean as possible. Let us exclude any type of irrelevancy in our arguments and conclusions, etc., and especially let us not raise accusations of anti-Semitism, unless it is clearly the case of course.
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http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/iraqwar.shtml (Article on Iraq War)
http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/jewishlobby.shtml (Article on the Jewish Lobby)
http://www.ihr.org/news/0703_meeting.shtml (Article on the Lobby's campaign for war)

http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/11/israel-lobby/ (Debate on Israel Lobby)
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Some extractions below:

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Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has candidly identified the reason: "The Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic," he said. "People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful — very powerful."


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One person who has carefully studied this subject is Jonathan J. Goldberg, now editor of the influential Jewish community weekly Forward. In his 1996 book, Jewish Power, he wrote: [8]

In a few key sectors of the media, notably among Hollywood studio executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that calling these businesses Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical observation ...

Hollywood at the end of the twentieth century is still an industry with a pronounced ethnic tinge. Virtually all the senior executives at the major studios are Jews. Writers, producers, and to a lesser degree directors are disproportionately Jewish — one recent study showed the figure as high as 59 percent among top-grossing films.

The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America's most lucrative and important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal of political power. They are a major source of money for Democratic candidates.

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With this thread I am simply trying to see if we can come to the truth of the main matter: is there or has there been a powerful "Jewish Lobby" actively influencing U.S. foreign policy for the Middle East?