Pro-Israel lobby powerful

Pro-Israel lobby powerful

I was troubled by the event I witnessed in front of the U.S.
Embassy in Jakarta on May 22, 1995. It was an anti-American
protest regarding the U.S. veto of a UN resolution on
confiscation of Arab land in East Jerusalem. The demonstrators
are right as far as the continued expropriation of Arab land by
Israel as well as the continuous support given by the U.S.
government to Israel is wrong. However, it seems that many of the
protesters really do not understand America or Americans.

President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, but not by a
majority of the American people. He just had more votes than
President Bush and one other candidate. He does not represent the
majority of the American people. The U.S. pro-Israel lobby is
very powerful. The media in America is full of pro-Israel and
anti-Islam propaganda. This, of course makes it very difficult
for Americans to learn the truth about Islam and Israel.

America has it's share of hard core Israel supporters, but the
majority of Americans are reasonable people. Once they learn the
truth about Israel, their sympathies will be with the
Palestinians, not with Israel. Once they learn the truth about
Islam, they will not believe the anti-Islam propaganda in the
media either. In fact, Islam is spreading very rapidly in
America. There are now about eight million Moslems in America
today. The truth about Islam also changed my life. I have been a
Moslem for over five years now.

The protesters at the U.S. Embassy should not hate America and
Americans. America is a great country founded on principles of
freedom, democracy and justice for all people. The real problem
is Bill Clinton's willingness to submit to the whims of the pro-
Israel lobby. In America, he is an unpopular president.

KEVIN J. DUNPHY

Bandung, West Java