The Israel Lobby s Gay Rights Hypocrisy

Bard argues the term Israel lobby is more accurate, because it comprises both formal and informal elements (which includes public opinion), and ...because a large proportion of the lobby is made up of non Jews.

More and more people are speaking out, and the cosy protection offered by the Israel lobby is fading away little by little.

In 2009 a new body was formed, the Australian Secular Lobby , to promote secular education in Australia.

A condensed version of the working paper was published in March 2006 by the London Review of Books under the title The Israel Lobby.

Under pressure from an international lobby, multinational banks stopped investing in South Africa, resulting in economic stagnation.

Now there's a mood to put some of that stuff back in place, but the lobbyists are already there trying to weaken the regulations after the legislation has just passed.

If it is passed by Congress, where the rural lobby have a majority, the demarcation of indigenous land and the creation of conservation units will never again be approved .

Although the Constitution was rejected by French voters in May 2005, Giscard continued to actively lobby for its passage in other European Union states.

The ruralista bloc, as those who support the rural lobby are known, to which Valente refers is the Agribusiness Parliamentary Front, formed by congressmen and senators who have connections with agribusiness.

While it is true that American Jews are sometimes represented by lobbyists, such direct efforts to influence policy makers are but a small part of the lobby s ability to shape policy.

Unfortunately, where agriculture is concerned, this is mere rhetoric. The United States pays only lip service to free market principles, favoring Washington lobbyists and campaign contributors who demand just the opposite.

Yet these concerns have been pushed aside by the powerful pro Nord Stream lobby, led by former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who, having approved Nord Stream while in office, was quickly hired by Gazprom after he left it. In most democracies, such a move would have quickly received prosecutorial attention.

A US veto of a Security Council resolution supported by the Council s 14 other members to oppose Israeli settlements seemed to signal that Obama had crumbled under pressure from America s pro Israel lobby.

As the Obama administration cracks heads and bends ears on Capitol Hill (with the help of a legion of AIPAC lobbyists) in the hope of winning Congressional approval for what must be the most anti climatic military strike in the history of the world, why would anyone bother debating political solutions?