Norwegians are often told of the US Israel-Lobby. But this is not the only lobby out there.
The Jerusalem Post recently published an article on the US Arab-Lobby. Excerpt:
Both the pro-Israel and pro-Arab lobby (really lobbies because there are several for each) are indeed powerful, but there is a big difference – a difference that goes to the heart of the role of lobbying in a democracy.
Bard puts it this way: “One of the most important distinguishing characteristics of the Arab lobby is that it has no popular support. While the Israeli lobby has hundreds of thousands of grassroot members and public opinion polls consistently reveal a huge gap between support for Israel and the Arab nations/Palestinians, the Arab lobby has almost no foot soldiers or public sympathy.
Another lobby which is easily identifiable is the Norwegian Palestine-Lobby. The only reason this lobby remains invisible is that the Norwegian media corps appears to sympathize it with and therefore assumes that everyone else does so too.
