In this episode we hear from one of the original critical voices within the US Congress. Former Republican U.S. Representative Paul Findley represented the 20th District in Illinois for eleven terms. He began his forthright criticism of Israel's behavior in the late seventies.
The lobby eventually successfully dispensed with Rep. Findley by pushing a gerrymandering scheme that successfully brought about his defeat at the polls. But it took a while.
Now 94 years old, Paul Findley speaks with difficulty. He delivers what he calls his "last speech" at the April 2015 conference in Washington DC that explored the dimensions of the reach of the Israeli lobby.
But first: we begin with a Mondoweiss report out of Israel of the continuing provocations by the Jewish settler community at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the so--called Temple Mount in the heart of the old city in Jerusalem. Sacred to Muslims, but desired by Jews because the Mosque sits upon the ruins of the Second Temple at the western wall, Jewish settlers have as their long desired goal, what they consider the liberation of the Temple Mount now in the hands of Muslims. And so last week, settlers and Israeli intelligence members again barged into the yards of Al-Aqsa mosque.
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