Overview
Based on your overall learning and critical thinking stemming from the assigned PowerPoint slides and videos of Essay4, write a 900-1200 word essay (addressing directly, separately, in sequence, and according to the Essay format guidelines each ONE of the following 4 questions) in which:
1. You draw upon the 12 definitions in slide 209 to CREATE your OWN original, concise, and inclusive [incorporating the main points made in the various definitions: the complex ecosystem nature and composition of the lobby, its avowed and stealth activities, its operatives at the grass-roots and government levels, its underground Mossad-Sayanim networks, and its overall power and ultimate goal of extracting military, financial, and political resources from America to support Israel] definition of the Israel lobby (slide 209),
2. You PINPOINT and EXPLAIN which ONE of the three---the U.S. government, the Israeli government, or the Israel lobby---is actually 'calling the shots' (telling the others what to do) in terms of U.S. Middle East policy (slides 283, 456, 448, 58-59, 206-208, 210, 243, 378), [For your information, this relationship is also what the Israel-based Jewish People Policy Institute (2021) refers to as "the strategic triangular relationship: Jerusalem-Washington-American Jewry," http://jppi.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/aa2021EN.pdfLinksto an external site.]
3. You EXPLAIN why does predominantly Christian America continue to support incoming Jewish settlers (in Palestine) who do not believe in Jesus against the underdog native Muslim and Christian Palestinians who do believe in Jesus? (slides 221, 184), [Note also that Professors Mearsheimer and Walt wrote: “In fact, a good case can be made that current U.S. policy conflicts with basic American values and that if the United States were to choose sides on the basis of moral considerations alone, it would back the Palestinians, not Israel” slide 208]
4. You DISCUSS the core problem of the Palestine-Israel conflict and the solutions suggested or implied in:
(a) the assigned videos by Finkelstein, Weiss, Edery, Pilger, Attar, and the Occupation of the American Mind
(b) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's definition and description of American UN Envoy Nikki Haley's job and mission at the UN ("UNRWA Should Be Dismantled") in slide 378, and
(c) US Attorney Jeff Gates' book and video clip and Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss' Lecture about the Three Oaths including the God-decreed exile in slide 254 in relation to slides 230, 255, and 258.