Ep. 642 The Israel Lobby: What It Does and How It Works

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We are supposed to believe that the network of organizations promoting a particular view of Israel and the U.S. relationship with that country doesn't exist, and that anyone who says it does is a crank and a hater. Yet it's precisely the network of organizations that would call such a person a hater that we're talking about in the first pace. Grant Smith joins me for a rational discussion of this inexplicably sensitive issue.

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1:02.6	I'm warning you, this episode is not for delicate flowers, okay? We're taking on a controversial
1:09.9	issue. I don't actually think it's controversial at all. That's the thing. I don't see that this is controversial. This is obviously a fact. We're talking about the Israel lobby today, and we're doing so with Grant Smith, who is the author of the new book, Big Israel, How Israel's Lobby Moves America. Grant Smith is Director of Research at the
1:31.8	Institute for Research Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C. Grant, welcome to the show. Grant Smith,
1:39.2	welcome to the show. Thanks, Tom. Thanks for having me on. So you got this book, and it's called Big Israel, and as I just got done telling you, it's also a big book.
1:47.8	Although it really is only, it's a little over 300 pages, but boy, do you pack a lot in this book.
1:53.2	There is no fluff in here.
1:54.7	No, it's got 41 charts. It's got a full footnote, and the idea is to really have everything solidly backed up with citations.
2:03.0	Yeah, and, you know, the thing is, with a topic like this, you really have no choice,
2:06.2	because you're already going to be assumed to be a bad guy just for writing a book about this.
2:10.9	So you've got to make sure every T is cross and every I is dotted.
2:14.8	Why don't we, in fact, start right there about this being one of the
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