MEARSHEIMER: 'Dishonesty' About Israel in the Mainstream is 'Off the Charts'
The 'idea that the U.S. has a special relationship with Israel has no parallel in recorded history tells you that something extraordinary is going on here' he says
John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago professor, told Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom” on Tuesday that the dishonesty in the mainstream news about Israel has been “off the charts.”
“The discourse that we engage in newspapers like The New York Times, and especially The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal… and the discourse that our politicians are involved in about Israel is almost laughable when you actually look at the facts and compare the facts to what's being said. But this has been true for a long time, and there is no reason to think it's going to change.”
The co-author of “The Israel Lobby” spoke about Israel’s latest war crime after it banned humanitarian aid into Gaza over the weekend because Hamas refused to agree to an “extended” Phase 1 in the ceasefire instead of Phase 2 beginning, which was agreed to.
Napolitano asked why U.S. President Donald Trump, who “is a man of peace and willing to frustrate the entire foreign policy establishment,” going along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort — even more so than the Biden administration.
“It's the lobby,” he said. “the idea that the United States has a special relationship with Israel has no parallel in recorded history tells you that something extraordinary is going on here. This is an unbelievable relationship here. Israel there's a country that is a strategic albatross around our neck, Number 1; and, Number 2, it is in the process of committing genocide in Gaza…. yet we support it unconditionally. The United States is a liberal democracy…for a liberal democracy to be supporting a state that behaves like this is truly remarkable.”
Mearsheimer has said the Israeli lobby has nearly complete influence over main news outlets like The Wall Street Journal and New York Times, which is why it turned its attention to TikTok, which is more influential to young Americans than either of these outlets.
“The lobby is very effective and all you have to do is look at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times… The Wall Street Journal supports Israel down the line it; supports the Netanyahu government down the line. There is hardly ever any meaningful criticism of Israel in the Wall Street Journal it's quite remarkable and this has been the case for a long time.”
He continued that critics of Israeli policy can have their voices heard in the alternative media “and this is a huge problem for the lobby and they are scrambling to do everything they can to control the alternative media and you see this most clearly with regard to TikTok. There's no question that the lobby is going to enormous length to shut down TikTok because TikTok is filled with pieces that are critical of Israel and lots of young people get their news from TikTok,not from the Wall Street Journal
and not from the New York Times.”
the real reason they tried to shut down Tik Tok - the Judaic supremacists are losing control of the narrative
The Isreal lobby and and the US banksters control narratives through a syndicate of wealthy oligarchs who have not only infiltrated there way endlessly in MSM and the tabloids they also have Embedded large influence on congress and senate, the drunken love for fiat dept plagues the mind of many' weight dept and count the costs they be left with bronze penny's