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Quotes on and by the Israeli Lobby in Australia and Their Influence Ali Kazak________________________________________ Quotes on and by the Israeli lobby in Australia and their influence 1- Admission of cooperation with the Israeli embassy and government 2- Financial influence 3- Influence on government 4- On the representation of the Jewish groups and the Australia-Israel Review (AIR) 5- Israeli representatives work with the Jewish community to indoctrinate them on Zionist ideology: 1- Admission of cooperation with the Israeli embassy and Government: “More or less since the 1982 Lebanon War, the ECAJ [the Executive Council of Australian Jewry] and the ZFA [the Zionist federation of Australia] allowed, and the Likud government encouraged, a blurring of the roles between the ECAJ/ZFA and the Israeli Embassy. These two bodies became quasi-diplomatic agencies, often filling the vacuum created by an undermanned and remote Israel embassy.” Sam Lipski, ‘Inside the lobby’, The Australian Jewish News, 13.8.1993 Jewish leaders have established a long tradition of strong public advocacy on behalf of Israel, and they can take much of the credit for the fact that successive governments have maintained a strong bi partisan support for Israel.” Isi Leibler, “Candidly Speaking: Australia’s new PM- a proven friend of Israel”, The Jerusalem Post, 24.6.2010 “Mr. Mark Leibler, the [Zionist] Federation president said …’we are improving our areas of influence generally. We have fully staffed information offices in Sydney and Melbourne and our directors interact fairly regularly with politicians, editors and journalists on a national scale and are in contact with officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [email protected] Ph +612 6295 0222 Fax +612 6295 0021 * PO Box 3688, Manuka ACT 2603, Australia 2 “[the Zionist] Federation works in close cooperation with the Israel Embassy in Canberra. “We ought to be, and are the leading force in the community on matters of Israel and Zionism.” Victor Kleerekoper, ‘Zionists play key role in community’, The Australian Jewish News, 9.8.1985 “…[the Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak] Rabin has praised the ZFA’s [Zionist federation of Australia] work and there has never been an indication from any Israeli government, publicly or privately, that the ZFA is not doing what is good for Israel and our community or that some other organ could do better. “Nor does the ZFA act in splendid isolation. The Israeli Embassy and the Federation consult closely and completely agree as to their respective roles.” Helene Taft Teichmann, ‘A matter of opinion’, The Australian Jewish News, 20.8.1993 “The ZFA [the Zionist Federation of Australia] represents the Australian Jewish community and one of its many activities is to convey to the Australian Government the Jewish community’s views on issues which impact upon Australia-Israel relations. He [president of ZFA, Mark Leibler] said. “taking advantage of the ZFA’s superior funding – it receives funds from the Jewish Agency in Israel and has much larger annual budget than the ECAJ [the Executive Council of Australian Jewry]– Mark Leibler has gradually widened the ZFA political agenda and professionalised its staff. Warren Osmond, ‘Brothers at Arms’, the Sydney Morning Herald, 3.7.1993 “Miller was the President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and a Vice President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry at the time. In response to my talk, he admitted that Jewish organisations at times of conflict are given talking points by the Israeli government.” Michael Brull, “Stalinism: Opposing Palestinian Nationhood Because The Holy State Says We Should”, New Matilda, 2.8.2015 https://newmatilda.com/2015/08/02/stalinism-opposing-palestinian-nationhood- because-holy-state-says-we-should 2- Financial influence: 3 “The president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), Jermy Jones, says … It is not so much the Jewish vote that matters – there are fewer than 100,000 Jews in Australia – but rather the vast financial resources of the community’s wealthier members.” Rowena Stretton, “ALP can’t count on Jewish support”, The Bulletin, 4.8.1992, P. 19. ’“How much of this is about money, I asked him [Kevin Rudd],” Carr writes. “He said about one-fifth of the money he had raised in the 2007 election campaign had come from the Jewish community.” Carr concludes that “subcontracting our foreign policy to party donors is what this involves. Or appears to involve.”’ Lenore Taylor, “Bob Carr diaries: foreign policy was subcontracted to Jewish donors”, The Guardian, 9.4.2014 “a Jewish MP and former Hawke government minister, Mr Barry Cohen, said this week the Jewish community, particularly in Melbourne and Sydney, had always been a strong source of ideological and financial support for the ALP. ‘That will be weakened whenever a government appears to be antagonistic towards the State of Israel.’ said Mr Cohen. Peter Alford, ‘Jewish community pressures Evans on criticism of Israel’, The Australian, 13.6.1992 ‘Former federal Labor minister Barry Cohen told the Australian Jewish News: “A very, very senior Labor Party man has said to me that while he is supportive of Israel, none of the peoples in the parliamentary party he talks to are.” Cohen, for 40 years a member of the ALP, added bitterly: “I will be very surprised if any Jew gives to the party whilst its attitude is what it is.” Bernard Freedman, ‘support for Federal Labor Party wavers over Israel’, The Australian Jewish News, 18.7.2003, P.5. “Some Jewish donors to Labor have become alarmed at signs that Labor left MP’s are responding to the interests of anti-Israel voters with Middle East connections. Australian Electoral Commission returns show donations to Labor of $50,000-plus from Westfield (Frank Lowy), Meriton (Harry Triguboff) and Isador Magid. Aware of these concerns, Crean has accepted an invitation from the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affiars Council, Victorian State Zionist Council and Jewish Community Council of Victoria to address the community.” 4 Bernard Freedman, ‘Crean to spell out Labor’s Israel policy’, Australian Jewish News, 15.8.2003 ‘He did [Opposition leader Simon Crean], dissociate himself from a scathing broadside by [MP Julia] Irwin against the Jewish lobby’s “code of silence’ … although he failed to distance himself publicly from Irwin’s remarks, he said he spoke to her in private “I went to Julia Irwin and said that was an inappropriate statement to make and you shouldn’t make it again.”’ Dan Goldberg, “Labor policy hasn’t changed despite backbench, insists Crean”, The Australian Jewish News, 14.2.2003 “The threat to withdraw financial support for the ALP because of perceived anti-Israel comments by Labor backbenchers is worrying. Not because the Labor needs the money, but because it suggests that all party members must toe the line even if their comments broadly agree with Labor policy. “That’s what is occurring with Labor Middle East peace policies. They are interpreted in an increasingly narrow framework. Policy for Opposition parties needs to be cast in broad terms. But if one group hijacks the policy and refuses to allow any discussion, it’s time to question their motives. “As in all communities, there is more than one voice and there are many differing points of view among Australian Jews as there are among Israelis. The Israeli Labour Party tolerates more diverse views than some in the Australian Jewish community suggest that the ALP should tolerate. Labor should listen to all sides. Political influence requires the currency of ideas, not cash. Labor cannot be bought.” Julia Irwin, former Federal Labor member of parliament, ‘Wanted: political currency’, the Australian, 16.7.2003 “The truth is there is no real debate in this country about the travesty of what is happening in the Middle East, and there are those in the community who, with their money and influence, do all they can to ensure no such open debate occurs, either in the national Parliament, in the media or anywhere else.” Alan Ramsey, ‘Blinkers Off for the Other Side of Story’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15.3.2008 ‘money, influence, powerful friends’. 5 Mike Carlton, ‘A heavyweight boxing ring’, SMH, 13.10.2007 SARAH FERGUSON: You're saying that the Melbourne Jewish lobby had a direct impact on foreign policy as it was operated from inside Julia Gillard's cabinet? BOB CARR: Yeah, I would call it the Israeli lobby - I think that's important. But certainly they enjoyed extraordinary influence. … SARAH FERGUSON: They're still a very small group of people. How do you account for them wielding so much power? BOB CARR: I think party donations and a program of giving trips to MPs and journalists to Israel. But that's not to condemn them. I mean, other interest groups do the same thing. But it needs to be highlighted because I think it reached a very unhealthy level. I think the great mistake of the pro- Israel lobby in Melbourne is to express an extreme right-wing Israeli view rather than a more tolerant liberal Israeli view, and in addition to that, to seek to win on everything, to block the Foreign Minister of Australia through their influence with the Prime Minister's office, from even making the most routine criticism of Israeli settlement policy using the kind of language that a Conservative Foreign secretary from the UK would use in a comparable statement at the same time.” Reporter: Sarah Ferguson, “Bob Carr 'frustrated' by Israeli lobby and lack of First Class fares”, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC - TV/ 7.30 Report , 09/04/2014 “The [Jewish] community’s ability to sway the most powerful politicians in the land confounds political observers such as Dr Clive Bean, of the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences, and Mr Malcolm Mackerras, one of Australia’s most prominent electoral analyses.
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