Israeli lobby

But the matter of the fact is that the number of right-wing Christians who blindly support Israel is significantly larger than the number of Jewish citizens in the United States. The Israeli lobby is then a consortium of right-wing Christians and Zionists. The disproportionate influence of Israel on the American political scene is owing primarily to two factors -- fundamentalist Christianity, whose literal interpretation of the Bible designates the Jews as God's chosen people, and the original confines of ancient Israel as their rightful homeland ("Galilee"); and money that flows in from both Christian and Jewish sources. To a smaller extent, the blind spot of almost all Jewish politicians in America towards any even-handedness when dealing with Palestinians and Israelis is also a contributing factor.

The pro-Arab lobby or even groups that favour working through the United Nations to arrive at political solutions, have no such leverage. Nor will They have it in future if the world power structure doesn't change. What has been happening world-wide proves that the landscape has already been formed and crystallised. Every US administration and every US Congress will be in the pocket of the Israeli lobby in the future. If any solution is arrived at in West Asia concerning Israel and Palestine, it will be on Israeli terms. And it will not be equitable.

The only possible arrangement, which is fair, must involve complete withdrawal of Israel to pre-1967 borders, establishment of a fully functional Palestinian state (including self-defence capabilities), and payment of reparation to those Palestinians or their descendants who wind up being permanently displaced. And that will never happen, because the US will never put economic pressure on Israel to do so.