The truth is coming to the surface, as it ALWAYS does.
Sounds like Zionism is scrambling...
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European media is
questioning Israel's right to exist
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By Denyse
Tannenbaum in Washington
Nathalie Biderman (L)
(Europe Near East Forum ) and Daniel Shek (BICOM) at AIPAC's Washington
conference |
Updated: 10/Mar/2006 15:26 |
A leading media
analyst has told the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
policy conference that the mainstream European media is beginning to question
whether Israel has a right to exist.
Speaking during last
weekend's event in Washington, Daniel Shek, chief executive of the Britain
Israel Communications & Research Centre (BICOM), claimed that the
questioning of Israel's legitimacy is moving at a pace that is very worrying -
to the mainstreaming of the debate.
I think it's the single biggest
challenge for the Jewish community within the United Kingdom and for Europe in
general, Shek said.
High European participation
Shek attended the pro-Israel
lobby organisation's three-day event along with dozens of European delegates
from Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Belgium.
Europeans at the conference participated in a series of forums on
strategies to organize the pro-Israel community in Europe and attended detailed
policy briefings with top AIPAC legislative staff on the rise of Hamas and new
threats from Iran.
Delegates from Europe found inspiration from
AIPAC, widely viewed as a successful model for affecting US public policy
regarding Israel, said Nathalie Biderman, director of the Europe Near East Forum
for France think-tank.
AIPAC helps pass more than 100 pro-Israel
legislative initiatives a year through more than 2,000 meetings with members of
the U.S. Congress, according to AIPAC statistics.
The privately-funded
lobby has doubled its national membership in the past five years, topping
100,000.
AIPAC's influence was underscored by the seeming multitude of
government leaders in attendance at the conference, the biggest in its 52-year
history.
This year, half the Senate, a quarter of the House and many
White House administration officials, including vice president Dick Cheney,
participated.
More than 4,500 people
came, including diplomats from more than 50 embassies, with Muslim nations, such
as Turkey and Pakistan, also in attendance.
Different approaches
While European leaders here praised AIPAC's effectiveness,
they said that its usefulness as a model for Europe is limited.
We are
taking what is replicable and changing many things because our cultures are
different, said Biderman, whose organisation is built upon the AIPAC model.
France, with around 600,000 Jews, has the largest Jewish community in
Europe and its relationship with Israel is strong, but its views are
underrepresented among news outlets which have become increasingly hostile to
Israel, she added.
The same is true elsewhere on the continent and in
Britain, according to Europeans at the conference.
European Jewish
communities must step up efforts to send a message that just because Israel is
strong does not mean that Israel is always wrong, Shek said.
Britain’s
close relationship with AIPAC has intensified in the last year with the recent
launching of a new AIPAC outreach effort in Europe and Canada.
AIPAC is
assisting BICOM with developing grassroots networks in Britain and with
organizing pro-Israel events similar to AIPAC conference, but on a much smaller
scale, Shek said.
Europe is a very different place than the United
States, he said.œWe have different tools but similar goals
BICOM also plans to concentrate on long-term measures to cultivate
relationships and influence decision-makers and media leaders in Europe.
There is stronger motivation now than ever for communities to stand up
for Israel and stand up for their own, Shek said. We want to invest today in
things that will matter in five to 10 years.
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