The United States sends Israel roughly three billion dollars a year in aid and vetoes UN resolutions against it routinely, and this Dutch Tegenlicht episode asks who protects that relationship from scrutiny. The film grew out of the 2006 article by political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt arguing that unconditional US support for Israel no longer serves American interests, and it interviews Mearsheimer alongside Colin Powell's former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson, neoconservative Richard Perle, and televangelist John Hagee on the pro-lobby side. On the other side sit people who crossed AIPAC and paid for it: Alabama congressman Earl Hilliard, defeated after AIPAC money backed his opponent, historian Tony Judt, whose lecture on Israel's ethno-state politics got cancelled at the last minute, and Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth, attacked personally after criticizing Israeli conduct in the 2006 Lebanon war. Michael Massing and Daniel Levy round out the interviews. The film closes on Judt and Perle debating the same question from opposite sides: what alternative, and what other allies, does Israel actually have.