sentences:  Regarding the Israeli lobby, an article in the Arab American News quotes al-Asi as stating that "Very rarely we have American officials who can say no to the 700 pound gorilla on Capitol Hill that is the Israeli lobby.Many of us are wrong when we think that the U.S. government has the flexibility to adjust to the new reality.It doesn't have the flexibility when it has the toxins of the Israeli lobby in its bone marrow."