One of my favorite themes is that Palestinian statelessness is an American Jewish achievement–the lobby's support for the settlement program throughout the '90s. Jeff Blankfort reports on a review of Dan Fleshler's book on the Israel lobby, in The Jewish Week:
Judging from the review, Fleshler, looking for signs of the lobby's weakness, points to some meaningless legislation that got through that represents crumbs
to the Palestinians and to the failure to get the US embassy moved from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,
frankly, another ho-hummer in Israel's big picture, when the real role
of AIPAC and the Jewish majors has been to provide protection for
Israel's continued expansion of settlements and theft of Palestinian
land, including East Jerusalem. Facts on the ground, not symbols, are what has counted for Israel.
