I did view the link, pfr, and it was painfully relevant. Ash and Owen Jones are my current favourite lefties, but don't eloquent lefties talk a lot... The US and Israel are umbilically connected for sure. Emasculation of the press is just one upshot of that and the roles of those lobby groups is to make sure the cord is never cut. I suppose that massive numbers of Americans either don't care about Palestine or are simply not up to speed (political ignorance is so useful for the right...) Thing is, in general elections not one person voted for AIPAC or a big corporation or the gun lobby, but they, not the elected politicians, are the ones who decide what happens in the country in large part. Democracy can go hang...