“When you have a powerful and single-minded lobby
that is able to manipulate your government
in such a fashion that it pours its national treasure into a racist state,
arms it
and protects it
to the point of becoming an accomplice to its crimes,
and,
by doing so,
willfully alienates 22% of the world’s population,
… then you know that your notion of national interest has been seriously mangled.”
[ h / t : What really happened ]
The sums involved are not large, but their international significance is huge.