Alison Weir speaks at the National Press Club on her best-selling book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel." Weir is founder of the think tank If Americans Knew & president of the Council for the National Interest. Her talk was part of the National Summit to Reassses the US-Israel Special Relationship. Links: iakn.us/AOBJ-book ifamericansknew.org/ councilforthenationalinterest.org/ iakn.us/NatSummit #Israel #Palestine | If Americans Knew

This is Alison Weir's opening statement in a debate at UC Berkeley in 2003. Alison Weir is a journalist who traveled throughout the Palestinian territories in early 2001 as a freelance journalist. After her trip, Weir founded the nonprofiit organization "If Americans Knew" to give Americans the facts on Israel-Palestine. She is the author of a best-selling book on the history of the Israel lobby in the US: iakn.us/AOBJ-book After the debate, If Americans Knew received a death threat - iakn.us/1I

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