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Written by SARA
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
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Change in program
Because of
unexpected circumstances we have had to change the program of the AICafe for
Saturday 4th of October (Nassar Lahham will come to speak another time soon
about Palestinian Media )
Instead we will screen the film: The Israeli Lobby by Marije
Meerman
Is one allowed to
question that reality, or is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and
politically, that the relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore
unmentionable? And what happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable?
In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer
(University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial
article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. In it they state that it is
not, or no longer, expedient for the US to support and protect present-day
Israel. Together with the power shifts in Congress and the increasing doubts
about the current Middle-East policy, this could become the fuse in the powder
keg. Backlight talks to the people concerned in this 'new realism' debate
The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those
who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel (Neocon Richard
Perle, the Lebanese Christian Brigitte Gabriel and evangelist John Hagee, the
lobby club AIPAC), and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became
'victims' of the lobby.
The
Alternative Information Center is a joint Palestinian-Israeli activist
organization engaged in dissemination of information, political advocacy and
grassroots activism. The
AICafe is a political and cultural café open on Tuesday and Saturday night from
7pm untill 11pm. It is located in the Alternative Information Center in Beit
Sahour, close to Suq a Shaab square (follow the sign to Jadal Center) We have a
small library with novels, political books and magazines. We also have a number
of Films in DVD copies and the AIC publications which are aimed to critically
analyze both the Palestinian and Israeli sociaties as well as the conflict
itself. Phone number;
02 2775444
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AICafe's Web Page 
