Voters have no idea of their own power and most democratically-elected politicians in the world hope it stays that way. If they could eliminate the voting process in the world’s democracies, it would certainly suit the agenda of some very powerful people who do some very bad things.

Looking at Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to remain in power is a classic example and worthy of any PhD student’s attention if there was a campus in the world that would welcome a fresh, honest, academic approach to his efforts to cling on to his position as Israel’s prime minister. I doubt that such a campus exists anywhere, such is the power and influence of the global pro-Israel lobby.

It’s an open secret that Netanyahu has sacrificed the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians (and some of the Israeli hostages if truth be told) to keep his job. In this he has support from the world’s most powerful lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which buys influence by funding US politicians of all political stripes. AIPAC’s sole aim is to keep Israel’s occupation of Palestine in place, and it will fund any politician who agrees with this objective.

This is no conspiracy theory; the AIPAC website makes this clear. It describes itself as a “national movement of pro-Israel Americans”. Even the ever petulant Donald Trump knows that his presidency is secure as long as AIPAC is happy.

The Track AIPAC group rejects AIPAC’s influence in the US and openly supports AIPAC-free candidates such as congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib. It goes into astonishing detail about the amount of US........

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