Il n’est plus un jour qui ne nous apporte de nouvelles indications sur le mouvement de d\u00e9construction de l’influence isra\u00e9lienne aux USA, et plus particuli\u00e8rement, et ceci explique cela, on le verra plus loin, de l’influence des extr\u00e9mistes isra\u00e9liens via le Lobby<\/em> (l’AIPAC). Il s’agit ici d’un texte de Ira Chernus, professeur d’\u00e9tudes religieuses \u00e0 l’universit\u00e9 du Colorado et sp\u00e9cialiste des questions strat\u00e9giques, nucl\u00e9aires et conflictuelles consid\u00e9r\u00e9es du point de vue th\u00e9ologique. Publi\u00e9 sur Thruthout<\/em> le 9 juin 2009<\/a>, ce texte pr\u00e9sente l’int\u00e9r\u00eat d’une enqu\u00eate dans les milieux parlementaires US \u00e0 propos de l’influence de l’AIPAC.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tChernus d\u00e9crit d’abord le processus habituel pour endoctriner selon les consignes de l’AIPAC les jeunes parlementaires, notamment d\u00e9mocrates, sans avis sur la question du Moyen-Orient, et qui subissent r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement un lavage de cerveau, venu en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de g\u00e9n\u00e9reux donateurs commandit\u00e9s par l’AIPAC. La chose renvoie aux plus basses m\u00e9thodes de conditionnement et de propagande des syst\u00e8mes totalitaires les plus cyniques et les plus m\u00e9prisables. Pas de surprise, quand on a une id\u00e9e claire de l’AIPAC et de la direction isra\u00e9lienne actuelle, autant que des habitudes parlementaires US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMais les choses changent \u00abNow, for the first time, there are signs of a crack in AIPAC’s vaunted political edifice.<\/em>\u00bb Il faut dire que la bataille, qui porte actuellement sur la r\u00e9sistance de Netanyahou \u00e0 propos des demandes d’Obama sur la question des implantations comme si cela engageait \u00e9videmment la survie d’Isra\u00ebl, repr\u00e9sente une cause d’une telle m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 par rapport aux v\u00e9ritables enjeux qu’il y a l\u00e0 une d\u00e9marche alimentant son propre discr\u00e9dit. (\u00abEven the most conservative institutions of Jewish American life don’t want to go to war over settlement policy, said David Twersky, who was until recently the senior adviser on international affairs at the American Jewish Congress.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tExtraits du texte de Chernus:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWhat’s new is the serious objection being voiced in the US government, not merely by the president and his administration, but by members of Congress, including John Kerry, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and several prominent Jewish lawmakers, such as Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee; Howard Berman, chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee; and influential representatives Henry Waxman and Robert Wexler. When they met recently with Netanyahu, they made him very, very aware of the concerns of the administration and Congress, according to one Congressional aide. They pressed Netanyahu on the need to stop building in settlements and rejected his call for Palestinian reciprocity on terrorism as a precondition.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb(Another sign of the change: A Congressional delegation visiting Israel actually discussed, in private, the possibility of prohibiting Israel from using American weapons in the West Bank.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAfter so many years of AIPAC dominance, it would be too much to expect all Democrats to back Obama on the settlements question. There are still plenty in Congress who toe the AIPAC line. We are applying pressure to the wrong party in this dispute, said Rep. Shelley Berkley. I don’t think anybody wants to dictate to an ally what they have to do in their own national security interests,\u00a0\u00bb said Rep. Gary Ackerman. Though he allowed that there’s \u00ab\u00a0room for compromise, his version of compromise sounds very much like the Israeli government’s version: I think that most people could understand somebody having a child and their child living with them, as long as it’s not a ruse to expand the settlements.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut the fact that there is any debate at all on this issue in Congress marks a sea change in Washington, brought about by a perfect storm of converging factors.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tUn autre aspect qu’aborde Chernus, c’est la d\u00e9gradation chez les juifs US de la cause sioniste extr\u00e9miste\/likoudiste, avec le renforcement en cons\u00e9quence d’organisations juives de lobbyisme adversaires de l’AIPAC. Il s’agit notamment du groupe juif J Street<\/em>, qui ne cesse de se renforcer sur un programme notablement hostile \u00e0 la politique suivie par Isra\u00ebl d’une fa\u00e7on renforc\u00e9e et syst\u00e9matique depuis le 11 septembre 2001.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abTwo-thirds of American Jews say they want the US to play an active role in moving Israel toward peace, even if it means the US publicly disagreeing with, and exerting pressure, on the Israelis. That’s according to a poll conducted last summer by J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby now widely seen as the counterweight to AIPAC. Contributions to J Street are growing at a rate faster than AIPAC’s. In last year’s election, of 41 candidates endorsed by J Street for their pro-peace positions, 31 were winners.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWorking closely with J Street is the grassroots Jewish-American peace group, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, which now claims some 45,000 members and pledges of support from over 1500 rabbis and cantors. Just a few months ago, that latter number was less than 900, another indicator of how fast the Jewish community is changing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut numbers tell only part of the story. Inside the Jewish community, there is an intangible but unmistakable new mood of open discussion, and even debate, about Israeli policies. Politicians, whose job is to sense those intangible moods, are beginning to pick it up. More and more of them realize that the leaders of Jewish organizations who still parrot the AIPAC line may dominate the mass media, but they can no longer dominate their own rank-and-file.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tEnfin, Chernus met indirectement en \u00e9vidence un fait sur lequel nous insistons<\/a>, qui devrait prendre une importance grandissante. La question du soutien ou pas \u00e0 la politique isra\u00e9lienne doit \u00eatre d\u00e9battue publiquement, ce qui permet de mesurer \u00e0 ciel ouvert, \u00e0 l’abri de l’automatisme des slogans r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9s sur le mode lobotomis\u00e9, tout ce qu’il y a d’inf\u00e2me dans cette politique et d’imposture dans le chef de ceux qui la soutiennent. \u00abIn the weeks and months ahead, we can expect a growing chorus in the US Congress to echo the changing views of American Jews and answer: We want you to heed the president’s call to stop settlement construction completely, comply with international law, and open the door to serious negotiations with the Palestinians toward a two-state solution. Every time that answer is heard<\/em> publicly<\/em><\/strong>, it widens the crack in AIPAC’s wall and brings us closer to the day when that wall, inevitably, crumbles.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tOn pourrait observer, par analogie fameuse et tentante, que l’activit\u00e9 de lobbyisme de l’AIPAC est d\u00e9sormais plac\u00e9e devant son plus redoutable ennemi: une offensive de glasnost<\/em> \u00e0-la-Gorbatchev, dont l’initiateur incontestable a \u00e9t\u00e9 l’ambassadeur Freeman, lors de sa fameuse d\u00e9claration publique du 11 mars 2009<\/a>, d\u00e9signant le groupe (l’AIPAC) qui avait mont\u00e9 contre lui une campagne de lynchage m\u00e9diatique. C’est la th\u00e8se de la victoire \u00e0 la Pyrrhus<\/a> de l’AIPAC dans cette affaire, avec la transgression peut-\u00eatre fatale de la r\u00e8gle d’or du lobbyisme: la nature fondamentale du lobbyisme, et la condition sine qua non<\/em> de son succ\u00e8s, est que son action doit \u00eatre dissimul\u00e9e et ne sembler en aucune fa\u00e7on \u00eatre un acte de lobbyisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’autre aspect de cette affaire est que ces d\u00e9veloppements se font effectivement sur un terrain f\u00e9cond, c’est-\u00e0-dire un climat qui pr\u00e9c\u00e9dait l’arriv\u00e9e d’Obama, de mise en cause de la politique isra\u00e9lienne, autant d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale<\/a> que chez les juifs<\/a> am\u00e9ricains.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 11 juin 2009 \u00e0 12H01<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Il n’est plus un jour qui ne nous apporte de nouvelles indications sur le mouvement de d\u00e9construction de l’influence isra\u00e9lienne aux USA, et plus particuli\u00e8rement, et ceci explique cela, on le verra plus loin, de l’influence des extr\u00e9mistes isra\u00e9liens via le Lobby (l’AIPAC). 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